This is a bit of a repeat of my post (see below) but I wanted to include this step in my journey in the blog, too. At this point I want to have sound only my layout so I got an NCE powercab, which should be okay for low speed running in O Gauge, but I needed to fit sound in the Dapol 08 which I already had.

There are a lot of options out there, but I really liked the Paul Chetter sound file that as demonstrated on one of "Jinty's" YouTube videos (actually the whole thing just oozes atmosphere - so inspirational for such a simple photo plank!

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Fortunately for me, Jeremy from Digitrains was very helpful and not only checked my shopping list for me, but he even soldered the whole thing up as part of the order (that's particularly helpful for a totally untried DCC system as if it didn't work I wouldn't know where to start looking for problems).

This was MS440C Zimo Maxi decoder, the speaker, soundfile and stay alive capacitor, and it just popped into place and ran with no issues at all.

It really does sound as great as I hoped and I'm really pleased with it.

I documented the full shopping list here