Today I began to test a new locomotive purchased recently on Craigslist. This is a Lionel RS-11 Diesel with TMCC and Railsounds 4. It is item 6-28521 and was built in 2008. The most glaring defect is that there is no sound coming from the engine. The lights work, couplers fire and the fan-driven...

I hope someone can direct me to a source of a user's manual for a K-Line NYC O Scale Mikado with TMCC, Railsounds and Electrocouplers. I bought this locomotive today at a train show in San Jose California and it came absolutely bare with no box or documentation of any kind. I believe it was...

Lionel currently has new railsounds boards for sale on their replacement parts web page. I have a railsounds boxcar with a railsounds 2.5 board installed. The board is functioning (conventional mode) but I'm wondering if I could upgrade this car to a railsounds 4.0 board available now from...

so i was watching this Lionel product video showing one of their conventional models equipped with a rail sounds tender. it seems it the sounds all come from the tender. so my question is, would it be possible to buy a tender and use it with any steam engine you have?