DCC Solutions

Our Custom Sound Project now includes these fantastic features:

Custom Built Commonwealth GM Class Sound Project

This is not just a basic factory sound project but a completely custom-built sound project by DCC Solutions that contains recorded sounds with customised sound programming plus extra features. This will make your Commonwealth Railways GM Class Trainorama model a uniquely, impressive driving and sounding loco that will turn heads!

Full Throttle – Drive Hold

This feature allows you to simulate a hard-working loaded train by pressing the F1 function button. When the button is pressed, the motor will remain at a constant speed, while the sound can be controlled independently by adjusting the speed on the throttle, so this can simulate a hard-working locomotive. This exciting feature gives the operator the ability to have the loco crawling in notch 8 or coasting at 100 km/h along the track. Release the Drive Hold function button, and you simply go back to throttle-controlled speed, motion, and sound. Available only from DCC Solutions, our Drive Hold will stop your loco when you reduce the speed to zero, even while the function is still active. Your ESU factory sound or sound from other providers will not stop your loco at speed step 0 with the drive hold switched on, which can damage your model because you ran into something.

Coasting On Demand

This feature allows you to enter coasting mode whenever you want with a press of a button. Often, when coming to a stop, the throttle of a real locomotive is put into idle and the locomotive coasts to a stop. Another situation that occurs is that once a train is up to speed when operating over rolling countryside, the driver can coast to maintain a certain speed. By pressing the coast function button, the sound drops into coasting and remains there. Using the throttle speed control, you can now speed up or slow down the train, with the sound remaining in coasting mode. Press the function button to exit coasting, the sound will return to the speed that's set when exiting.

Working Brake

Press the Brake Function button, and your locomotive will come to a stop at a much shorter distance than if you were to bring it to a stop by reducing the throttle speed. Release the brake and your locomotive will move off again, or choose to have it remain stationary when the brake is released. The brake can also be used while driving to slow the locomotive up.

Working Dynamic Brake or Logic Dynamic Brakes

Apply the Dynamic Brakes and the Prime Mover will wind down to idle and slow up, then the Dynamic Fans engage to assist with cooling. Reduce the throttle, and the decoder's dynamic braking logic will reduce your speed faster than normal. Disengage Dynamic Braking and the primer mover will return to it's notched speed and the fans will turn off.

Logic Dynamic Brakes is for the GMs that don't have dynamic brakes that will allow your GM Class loco to run in a trailing consist with other locos that may have Dynamic Brakes.

Brake Squeal on Deceleration

Activate this function and when you reduce the throttle speed, your locomotive will begin braking and slow up quicker as you continue to lower the throttle speed, and you will hear the squeal of the brakes. Accelerating will release the brakes.

Random Start-up Sequences with Move Off and Stopping Sounds

Now, with random start-up sequences, your start-up and shut down will not always sound the same.

As your locomotive begins to move off you will hear the sounds of brakes releasing with random speed activated wheel squeal, rail noises and other sounds. Some of these sounds are random or speed sensitive that will turn on/off automatically depending on your take-off speed. When the locomotive comes to a stop you will hear the squeal of the brakes, air releases and then the compressor will cut in automatically to fill the reservoirs with air until full and will cut out.

Remastered Horn Sounds

New remastered WABCo Series or Leslie SuperTyfon S-5T series playable and short blast horn.

Random Sounds

While the factory fitted sound will only offer you 1-2 random sounds, DCC Solutions will have up to 10 random sounds that will play when either the loco is stopping or moving, to create even more realism to running your model.

Manual Notching

For those who really want to drive their train and manually control the notching rather than letting the decoder do it.

And includes all these great features to make your Trainorama GM Class model drive and sound impressive

• Commonwealth GM Class EMD 16-567C Custom Built Sound Project

• WABCo Series or Leslie SuperTyfon S-5T Short Blast and Playable Horn

• Random Start-up sequences, including Automatic Hot or Cold Engine Start

• Air and Brake Release Sounds when loco moves off and stops, including Brake Squeal

• When the loco stops after braking, the compressor cuts in to fill the reservoir and will turn off when the tanks are full

• Speed sensitive Wheel Squeal and Rail Noise when the loco moves off

• Full Throttle Drive Hold – Lock the loco speed, control the sound independently to simulate a heavy loaded or empty train

• Coasting On Demand

• Working Brake to bring your locomotive to a stop even when Full Throttle Drive Hold is active, unlike other ESU sound files

• Proper Working Dynamic Brake Logic: Allows the non-dynamic brake loco to run with other locos that have dynamic brakes

• Proper Working Dynamic Brakes: When activated, automatically slows down with Dynamic braking, cooling fans operate 

• Directional Coupling and Release with brake line release plus auto active shunting mode to reduce the speed of the loco

• Stop & Drive Random Sounds including fans, compressor, rail noise, track wheel squeal, air releases and more!

• GM class compressor

• Wheel Squeal

• Brake Squeal on deceleration and off on acceleration

• Guard's Whistle

• Manual Notching – manually control the notching rather than letting the decoder do it

• And more (See below for full list)

• Modified Lighting Option for more prototypical light operation

• Low beam to High beam Headlight operation

• Motor settings tuned for slow speed performance, perfect for shunting

• Sound volumes tuned to specifically suit the Trainorama GM Class Locomotive Model using the DCC Solutions speaker

• Play 10 different sounds simultaneously

• Individual sounds slots and master sound volumes can be adjusted by the user to suit personal requirements

• DCC Solutions High Performance Dynamic Speaker producing fantastic sound

• Full function button remapping to suit your personal requirements

• This Sound Project is also suitable for other brands of GM Class Models

DCC INSTALLATION AND MODIFICATION FEATURES

Standard DCC Installation: Non-sound decoder with no lighting modifications

Premium Sound Installation: ESU LokSound 5 sound decoder with our Custom GM Class Sound Project

Premium Sound Installation and Light Modification: Upgrade the Function lighting outputs, depending on your model, with the DCC Solutions Light Modification to separate the lighting for individual function control on your DCC throttle, plus our ESU LokSound 5 Custom VIC S Class Sound Project

DCC Solutions SOUND and FUNCTION Labels

Premium Sound Installation and Light Modification using the ESU LokSound 5