Great video! Here's hoping Soundtraxx or someone in the third party develops adapters to better suit faster decoder swaps- as we have with the Decoder Buddy in HO. I've got a few O pieces I'd like to have backups for in the event spare TMCC/Legacy boards fly even further off the marketplace. Also very based use of Hololive bgm remixes!

Im glad Dcc is finally showing in O scale here. In Europe, they have been using Dcc in O gauge for a while

Fantastic video Johnny! Beautifully filmed and an awesome topic. DCC truely is the future for customization in 3-Rail O and you are an excellent champion of the concept!

#DCCGang #Lionelisshittingtheirpants

Came here from Sid's video on the topic, and have also been watching the Soundtraxx videos on the topic. To me, this is a very welcome development in 3-rail O scale! (Also welcome - hey, there are young people doing O scale! 😂) There's one other issue I have with Legacy and DCS, and that is that upgrading an older loco. With Legacy is basically impossible as far as I can tell. MTH does make DCS upgrade kits available, but my experience with them was not good. (They're _very_ static sensitive, unlike DCC decoders, and I destroyed one despite having successfully hardwired a few dozen DCC locomotives! Had to buy another kit and pay a pro to install it. Ugh.) I do like physical remotes, and enjoy using both the DCS and Legacy ones. (Quillable whistles FTW!) However, the ability to add command control easily to my PS1 and Atlas 3R locomotives with DC motors is a game changer, and I'll be happy to use my phone/tablet to control them. I've got a PS1 UP turbine that I'm dying to run with command control! From what I can hear, the sounds with Blunami really are better than what Lionel and MTH offer. Congratulations to you and the community for sorting this all out and giving us some options in what has until now been a closed market!

Great Video Johnny! The Capabilities of DCC is almost limitless with the amount of customization in it.

Another huge benefit to Blunami is that you can run an outdoor layout DEAD RAIL with a battery car (or battery in tender). No more track cleaning, no proprietary radio system.

An absolute banger Audamus! This makes me want to get into DCC control! Just the amount of customization is absolutely nuts!

You finally showed the gs4 with the soundset we tested!

Good video Johnny I enjoyed it! Now I just have to wait for my Baltic…..

This is I believe the future of 3 rail o scale

As a guy who regularly buys Visionline, I’d pay a grand for a Visionline style remote with sliders and buttons… whoever makes it. Tie in with the phone as you’ve noted here but we gotta have buttons.

Love your enthusiasm, Love the idea of putting heat on Lionel to be better. Love the customization. Hate that it seems to be run on a smartphone. YUK. We need a hardware remote, a new one, not the ancient Cab1L.

Wow! Beautiful train! Gorgeous layout! Amazing sounds! I have been waiting for this for about 12 years! I used to work at a model train store down here in Texas called the Collectible Caboose and got to play with the NCE DCC system some. I knew it was just a matter of time before they would catch up to the O Scale 3 Rail world. Thank you for doing this great video Johnny! Thank you Sid for helping Johnny with this endeavor. I hope Lionel and MTH are listening because Soundtraxx is coming for them! - Ricky

Johnny, This goes without saying this is one of my favorite videos you've done to date! Fantastic visuals and most importantly a break through topic for our industry! This is the most excited I've been for the hobbies future in years! Thank you and Sid for discovering this tech! Soundtraxx's has my full support and approval going forward! Keep it coming!!

Well, this could definitely be revolutionary in o scale. Great video!

I’ve got a few engines I’d love to install this in. Looks to be the absolute easiest system to install and gives you so many custom options. And the best part is, it’s actually affordable

Great video! Your track color is perfect! Cool video! Maybe one day we will work on some O scale products! Cheers!

Very nice video. I enjoyed it. I have been putting Blunami in my G scale and it has been great so far.

Amazing video Audamus! Although I prefer to run o gauge with Lionel Legacy/TMCC and MTH DCS, this is Lit!!!🔥

I love my Blunami!!!

Very good video. Earned a subscriber

Johnny this was a very enlightening video. I had no clue DCC had all these bells and whistles. Thank you for making this video. Frank😊

Johnny! What an entertaining video! Thought you did a fantastic job covering Blunami and what it has to offer 3-railers. I'm a 72 YO model railroader. I've been into model railroading for a long time and have witnessed the implementation of digital controls over the years (sure beat track Blocks controlled by relays!). I have several "conventional" DC motor engines that i think would be good candidates for Blunami (I have upgrade engines before using MTH PS2/PS3 upgrade kits and ERR kits). Blunami looks like a slam dunk. Thanks again for the great video! Definitely gonna subscribe. BTW....Blunami discussions have been showing up on O Gauge Railroading's forum discussions. There is definitely a movement that's growing.

Blunami is changing O Scale, both 2 & 3 rail. For years I dealt with cumbersome DCC stuff, no more. Blunami is easy & sounds are awesome. Enjoyed your nicely weathered trains and you’re layout. Nice see a 3R focus on one prototype.

I am one of those people that you mentioned that like buttons and levers on a remote. This is one of the options out there for us battery powered operators.

You could also run your modern O scale 3 rail trains on DC, since the motors are all DC anyway! You could also run a battery pack with the Blunami system, run it deadrail style without ever pulling power from the track

Great job. I use Blunami in O also. I used a battery and go Deadrail. Then I do not have any issues running Blunami engines at the same time as DCS or Legacy. No bridge rectifier required since batteries are DC. Try one. You'll be hooked.

the SP mogul looks great

WOW! Amazing video. Your production and information are top notch. I look forward to more videos from you.

Man!You gave that 2-6-0 a workout.

90 different whistles is insane! Good video production as well!

Now all we need is a how to for installation. Every engine will be different, but a general guide would be great.

I have thought about dcc as a three rail system but it's for HO. Well this is what I want. I like the idea and can see this going somewhere! Slap some Lionel features on that thing and make it like 500 bucks.... best seller of the year! Awesome video!

Great video Johnny. Thanks for sharing.

This needs to happen to help break up the Duo-opoly of Lionel & MTH’s systems. Are they good? Yes! But I am very bitter that Lionel abandoned the Cab2, and keeps delaying the base3. Not being able to even purchase a remote control for your trains for a year+ is a disservice to the customer. Anyway, let’s standardize on DCC!

Fantastic video Johnny, its nice there is a universal system like HO now being implemented in 3 Rail O gauge, as nice as lionel and MTH systems are, it is sometimes annoying they are proprietary. I'm planning an install myself 😊

And with battery power you can run out side or totally with out track power

GREAT presentation video. I was one of those who feared DCC because of CV codes. But my nephew got into HO and was showing me how DCC is easy and the CV codes are really not that bad as long as you have the CV guide. I always wondered how long it would take DCC to enter three rail market because DCC uses DC current and O Gauge AC current. I learned that DCC is just a different language of talking to trains over Legacy or DCS to put it simple. I definitely like the Blunami idea. I have to admit at first I thought Lionel putting blue tooth into locomotives was a waste. However I got hooked on blue tooth when I started to run on club layouts. It was easy, just put the train on the track and go with your phone. I have a question maybe you or Sid could answer. Can Blunami be used to create a two or three powered locomotive consist? You can't do this with Lionel blue tooth. If O Gauge went to DCC we wouldn't have to worry about people asking $2K for the 990 remote or DCS controllers.

Cool stuff Johnny! Makes me want to give it a shot, the customization level is crazy high.

Nice job bro. I’ve actually been working on one of these conversions for several months now (converting an old Williams brass K4 to bluenami). It’s temporarily on hold due to having to re-motor the engine due to the old one drawing a metric crap ton of current (more than the bluenami is rated for)

This was an excellent video! To be honest, one of my biggest issues with the O Gauge Market is how practically every manufacturer has their own form of command control; you can’t exactly run a Lionel Legacy engine on MTH’s DCS system. I hope with Blunami, we can finally get a system that can work across manufacturers.

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Is it just me or does your GS-4 whistle sound like the real deal? It’s probably my imagination. But If so-very impressive! Both Lionel and MTH should be watching this video of yours and start too get some inspiration from this. Well done

There is no where else for this to go but straight up to the top of upgrades! I want to upgrade an older Lionel AC-9 to Blunami simply for the superior sound system to lionel or mth. You've just made me SO much more excited for this, Johnny!

From what I heard, in "ye olden days", TMCC was developed due to DCC being unreliable in the electrically rough-and-tumble world of 3-rail layouts of the time, what with open-frame AC motors, solenoid-operated accessories and the like. All kinds of electrical noise, spikes and surges played havoc with DCC signalling. Yes, Lionel did eventually offer to license TMCC to other companies, but (incoming conjecture) the idea of them licensing TMCC to their biggest competitor (MTH) was probably a non-starter. Add to that the problem of a TMCC licensee being captive to whatever sound sets Lionel chose to make for TMCC (for example, my 3rd Rail Electroliner and NYC T3 electric both have TMCC diesel sounds). I could see MTH at the time producing a bunch of locos that Lionel didn't and not wanting to be beholden to Lionel, went it's own way so far as sound+command control. I see it less as monopoly-induced resistance to change (even as much as it looks that way) so much as unique circumstances of the 3-rail world limiting everyone's options at the time (mid-late 1990's) and the ramifications of years later attempting to switch to DCC after large numbers of their customer base had accumulated sizable fleets of locomotives using their respective systems (not to mention the R&D money that went into developing them). Also, until the recent advent of Bluetooth-controlled DCC, one would've had to contend with on-track DCC signalling being incompatible with TMCC/Legacy and DCS signals if you wanted to add it to an existing setup. By the way, at 11:20 , are those Lima British Rail Mark-1 coaches? and if so: (1) how long did you have to search to find them, and (2) I've seen these equipped with Rivarossi-style hook couplers, and became aware that AHM had made retrofit kits to change the hook couplers to an 1970's Atlas-style dummy coupler that mates with 3-rail O couplers. I found an Ebay seller that still carries them and bought a bunch to retrofit my mini-collection of AHM (Rivarossi) freight cars.

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Excellent work Johnny

I would like to use this to repair MTH and Lionel engines

Awesome overview, I've been waiting to learn more about this system! Very interested in this for some older Kline and Williams locos of mine! I would love to see a full install guide one day for this system in a 3 rail locomotive as their instructions seem vague at the moment.

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1:14 1:16 1:18 1:20 1:26 😂 hilarious

They Johnny, great to see you back and that’s some great info/review, good job! Those sounds were amazing, very real sounding, on my end. It would be great to make this a standard on all model railroading, just my opinion but the costs… It would be great if you could get your signal lights to work with it too, ask Sid LOL. Ron

What a fantastic review and the footage at the end is really the cherry on top for enthusiasts like me. My son and I have actually just rewatched the last half just to get more glimpses of the sights and sounds of your amazing layout. Are these sounds from the new system?

Kick ass video Johnny, I have a question for you, Will this system work with conventional? That is all I have and it is the lionel transformer that came with the 0 27 polar express set.

In a nutshell can I convert conventional Williams and Modern Lionel engines with the BluNami DCC kit ? All of my Williams have DC can motors.

MTH even says that DCS is best run on DC, not AC. So the whole issue you raise about AC conversion to DC is not valid. That is the good news!

Do you have to have a wiring diagram I could use for a o Guage steam locomotive. I want to be able to use the smoke and market lights on the locomotive and tender.

Would this work if put into an original premiere ps1 challenger from the mid 90s? I really don’t want to get into the weeds with ps upgrades and cost. Or have to buy a new engine when it dies. Same goes for future models that are older

Are the trains ran using dc or ac power?

Might be a silly question, but is the track voltage still AC with this system?

Last time I checked B. was more expensive board. Why have a 3rd system ?

It's just a monopoly all controlled by Lionel not saying there isn't Atlas and MTH but they don't do anything on the scale that Lionel does because ever since Mike Wolf retired from MTH Lionel's prices have gotten out of hand Lionel was never cheap but these prices were seeing from Lionel now are the direct result of monopolistic practices and this is why prices on the second hand market have been getting and have gotten out of hand also because of Lionel's monopolistic practices because everybody has turned to the second hand market as a cheaper alternative which has resulted in sellers on the second hand market with crazy prices

Very cool but for me how often do you really use the sound. 90 percent of us just run the trains. I rather then build more Reliable engines. But very cool for those that would use it

It’s nothing new to have ddc in O gauge locomotives