--- In [email protected], Ed Kozlowsky <soldado7264@...> wrote:
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> I had a nice O scale MTH 4-4-0 that had a switch in the tender that would
> allow AC or DC running. In AC the sound included more "gimmick" sound
> effects like a water stop, shovelling coal, cab talk, etc.
Ed, One of the most annoying "sounds" put in model steam engines is that
cab talk. Radios were, for the most part, not used in most steam (Pennsy
Induction radio being one exception)until excursion runs. Those roads that did
use radios sure wouldn't have had audible conversations from the ground.
Another annoying sound effect to me is the bell, or mostly the overuse of
the bell. Guys will ring the bell and then keep ringing and ringing it like a
bill collector at the front door!
I am intrigued by a recent ad in MR for Surroundtraxx", which uses large
speakers strategically placed about the layout and the DCC signals from the
locomotive guiding the sound to the closest speakers.
This should take away the tinny sound of a lot of systems, bass speakers aside.
In S (proper content)and O or G, the sound coming from a trailing tender
doesn't cut it for me either. I can see Bill Lane's logic of putting the
speaker in the boiler beneath the stack.
Bud Rindfleisch
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