Since, I'm in my last stages of this weekends' open house, I'll relate a
story of the wheel over joint sounds. One of my mainline turnouts in
the town of Madra was laid with a rather large gap. Now Madra is hidden
by a view block and is only viewable by a narrow isle way (designed
before I got fatter). During earlier open houses visitors would hear the
trains crossing that gap and just had to see what was happening! That
little isle way got pretty crowded. I couple of years ago I closed up
the gap and much of the interest went away--so sometimes semi-sloppy
trackwork does the trick.
In the opposite situation, when I was visiting Jess Bennett a few years
ago, we viewed a video that was shot by Lee Johnson I believe. Jess
mentioned a strange sound he would hear occasionally. A quick
evaluation lead me to conclude it was the twin coil switch machines he
was using. I have many twin coils, and squealing PFM slow motors to
ruin the sound, so the sound equipped engines are a blessing beyond
belief. Now if we could just get guys to stop talking during the videos!
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
On 11/15/11 8:43 PM, raisinone wrote:
>
> Bill:
>
> One other thought... next time set your camera and sound recording
> next to a rail joint. You just can't beat that "steel wheel on steel
> rail" sound as the consist rolls by...
>
> Jim Kindraka
>
> .
>
>
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