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After many hours of testing, fixing, and developing, RWA user lamanorbu and I (ET44C4) have finally created the ability to add quills to more locomotives! I have already created custom horns and custom quills to go along with them, so here are two videos of some progress.




There is quite a bit of work involved, but it is possible!

I would love to see the quill put onto the Berkshires. Great work!

Berkshirefan765 wrote:I would love to see the quill put onto the Berkshires. Great work!

+1

Thank you. I'm going to test out a few more locomotives to make sure everything works before I make a guide.

Howdy ET44C4,

Great sounding mod! I'm sure it took ALOT of effort to make.

Just wanted to let you know that horns that are operated via a button from most modern 'desk type' locomotives are not capable of being 'quilled'. This is because there is an electric circuit that connects the button to the horn verses a valve (like in the F40, or most early locomotives). You can make really short pushes of the button but there is a delay so doing things like 'shave and a haircut' is tricky, or at least I think so anyway.

Anyway, don't let me discourage you. I hope you release the mod, it would be fun to use anyway. I just mentioned that for your information. Please, I meant to harm.

Take care

P.S. I always thought it was funny RSC did the same thing with their F59, which also had a horn button. Ah well, still a great locomotive.

I'd like to see this on the older locomotives like the RS-1; really neat!

GERUNIMO625 wrote:Howdy ET44C4,

Great sounding mod! I'm sure it took ALOT of effort to make.

Just wanted to let you know that horns that are operated via a button from most modern 'desk type' locomotives are not capable of being 'quilled'. This is because there is an electric circuit that connects the button to the horn verses a valve (like in the F40, or most early locomotives). You can make really short pushes of the button but there is a delay so doing things like 'shave and a haircut' is tricky, or at least I think so anyway.

Anyway, don't let me discourage you. I hope you release the mod, it would be fun to use anyway. I just mentioned that for your information. Please, I meant to harm.

Take care

P.S. I always thought it was funny RSC did the same thing with their F59, which also had a horn button. Ah well, still a great locomotive.

That's mostly true. Some of the desktops depend on how far you push the button. The P42 has two stages to the button.

GERUNIMO625 wrote:Howdy ET44C4,

Great sounding mod! I'm sure it took ALOT of effort to make.

Just wanted to let you know that horns that are operated via a button from most modern 'desk type' locomotives are not capable of being 'quilled'. This is because there is an electric circuit that connects the button to the horn verses a valve (like in the F40, or most early locomotives). You can make really short pushes of the button but there is a delay so doing things like 'shave and a haircut' is tricky, or at least I think so anyway.

Anyway, don't let me discourage you. I hope you release the mod, it would be fun to use anyway. I just mentioned that for your information. Please, I meant to harm.

Take care

P.S. I always thought it was funny RSC did the same thing with their F59, which also had a horn button. Ah well, still a great locomotive.

Thank you very much for the information. It was greatly appreciated. My plan is to hopefully only make horns for early locomotives; the P42DC being the only exception. Hopefully I can find some good quill and horn audio to use, as it can be hard.

ZekTheKid wrote:I'd like to see this on the older locomotives like the RS-1; really neat!

Thank you! I too, would love to have that. I might have to research what specific horn was used on RS-1 locomotives, and then get the audio for both horn and quill.

I just ran the P42DC with the quill mod and it apparently didn't work. I didn't make any changes to the P42DC at all since I did the quill. I guess I will have to look around and see what happened.