Railroad Sounds For Train Layouts A Fifties Junction
This is the first in a new line of CDs designed specifically for use in the train room. This does not feature long recordings of trains as they were heard in real life with all the environmental sounds heard at the time. Rather, this CD features non-stop action as thirty-six individual recordings are mixed into the space of 61 minutes.
The sounds on this CD represents a busy junction during the transition from steam to diesel. Steam trains are heard starting, accelerating, drifting at speed and working grades. Diesels are heard passing with freight and passenger trains, as well as switching the small yard.
How did we do it? We started with the sounds of songbirds recorded in the woods in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. With this as a backdrop, we added train after train into the mix until there is something happening all the time. There is either a train passing, approaching, or fading at any given moment; and much of the time more than one train can be heard.
This CD is comprised of a single 61 minute track, and the following is heard in this order: A GP9 passes with a freight A 2-8-4 passes working upgrade A Local freight arives A 4-8-2 passes working upgrade A GP9 passes with a train The Local begins switching A 4-8-2 passes at speed A 4-6-6-4 accelerates past The local continues switching as a 4-8-2 works upgrade A 4-6-6-4 drifts past at speed The local continues switching A GP9 passes with a train E9s pass at speed with a passenger train The local continues switching as a 4-6-2 departs The local continues switching as a 2-8-0 works upgrade The local continues switching as a 2-8-0 stops to line a switch A 4-8-2 and a 2-8-4 pass at speed A 4-8-2 accelerates past A 2-6-2 works upgrade A 4-6-0 departs Two Geep powered trains pass A 4-8-2 passes at speed A 4-8-2 works upgrade as F7 passes with a train A 4-6-2 departs A 4-8-2 drifts by at speed A 2-6-2 works upgrade A 4-6-2 passes as a 4-8-2 departs An F7 passes as a GP9 passes in the opposite direction
Recordings of the following locomotives were used in the production of this CD: St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 #3985 Black Hills Central 2-6-2T #104 Ohio Central 4-6-2 #1293 Huckleberry Railroad 4-6-0 #2 Southern Railway 2-8-0 #154 Southern Railway 2-8-0 #630 Canadian National GP9R #4011 Monon Railroad F7 #83 Nickel Plate Road GP9 #426 Union Pacific’s executive E units Louisville & Indiana GP11s Illinois Central 9608
