TTDB Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Looking at several youtube videos on modern motive power with reference to looking as to what sound decoders to buy, I cant decide what sounds the best, but this video brings real noise, Im shocked how loud such modern locos can be compared to our european stuff that sounds no more than a hot drinks vending machine,, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-59 Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 I've never been the audiophile type of rail fan, but it is true that American locomotives are very loud. I live about a mile from the tracks and when it's quite at night and the windows are open I can hears engines idling that the station clearly from my bedroom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Give me classic EMD's any day: Turn it up loud and feel the bass Edit - After the head end has gone by, skip to 6:30 for the helpers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 This one's also rather good: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Give me classic EMD's any day: Turn it up loud and feel the bass Edit - After the head end has gone by, skip to 6:30 for the helpers. Only some 32000+ HP on that one. A couple of GE interlopers in there. Looks like: SD40-2 SD40-2 SD70M-2 ES40DC SD40-2R (SD40 carbody) SD70M-2 C40-9 SW1500? ---- SD40-2 SD40-2 Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Modern American locos don't really do a lot for me sound wise, but I haven't seen many whilst over there. To be honest if its noise I'm after then it has to be Maybachs (didn't GE build a few hydraulics with those?) or the Evil Empire, from the days before silencers... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junctionmad Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Being brought up In Ireland , I was lulled to sleep by EMD engines through the night there's no better sound on the planet !! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DelawareAndHudson Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Was on a bike ride last night and caught an NS eastbound grain train leaving East Wayne yard in New Haven, IN. I was less than 20' from the tracks sitting on the platform of the restored station. Train had a mix of GE's. I think it was C40-9W, C40-W (ex-Conrail), and another GE, either a C40-9W or an ES44. It was earth-shaking, deafeningly loud. This was a pretty heavy train that had just started from the yard a half mile from where it passed me and the engineer was getting the train up to speed. When NS engineers get a green signal around here, get out of the way. There is a world of difference in how loud modern US diesels when they are cruising at track speed on the flat ground around the midwest compared to going from zero to 50 or 60 in a mile or three. I have no idea how you can recreate my experience last evening with a tiny speaker in an HO locomotive. Jason C Indiana Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 And believe it or not, they're quieter than they used to be...old GEs and Alcos barked and snorted to beat hell. They were great And no doubt your H&S people would positively blanche at the air horns at level crossings! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 This one's also rather good: "Five Row" is the local name for this location https://goo.gl/maps/DQDl5in Salisbury, NC...trains are climbing the grade out of the Yadkin River... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Thanks. Perhaps I should try to convince TCMP (The Current Mrs Pugsley) that we should visit NC on our next trip stateside! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold John B Posted July 24, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 24, 2015 Nahh, you want to go to northern New Jersey - specifically Morristown - and seek out the Morristown & Erie's pair of Alco C424s in revenue freight action. Now THAT'S a decent noise. Alco 251s and clag. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matador Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 This I think is the most awesome show of EMD power. ex Rio Grande Tunnel Motors on the NS David A Brit in the USA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Got to admit i've been tempted to model that pair of tunnel motors (they now work for Wheeling & Lake Erie) - very cool survivors! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 My Lordz! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 By the way. For those of us who are Americans and don't speak "English", what the heck does the title of this thread mean? A tipple in the US is a structure that loads coal, ore or rock into railcars, trucks or ships. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
highpeak Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 A tipple here refers to a preferred beverage, typically some sort of alcohol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTDB Posted July 28, 2015 Author Share Posted July 28, 2015 Got to admit i've been tempted to model that pair of tunnel motors (they now work for Wheeling & Lake Erie) - very cool survivors! Imtermountain bringing some nice tunnel motors out end of the year........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
highpeak Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Imtermountain bringing some nice tunnel motors out end of the year........ At least it is just a confusion and not as embarrassing as an Englishman walking into an office store and asking for an eraser, but using the usual vernacular word for it over here... (Rubber.) There's the difference between "corrective" and "preventive". You can really confuse people when you ask for a pencil with one on the end. And we had perhaps better not explore the difference in the slang meaning of the name of a lady associated with gaslight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Imtermountain bringing some nice tunnel motors out end of the year........ Yes, I believe they are doing that very pair... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 We had a woman retire after about 40 years of service on the railroad and at the retirement party speech her boss recounted that when she started she was one of the best call girls and strippers they had. A call girl (or call boy) was the clerk that went to the hotels and notified the crews that they were "called" for duty on a train and a stripper was the clerk who stripped the multipart computer reports/forms, removing the tractor feed strips and carbon sheets, separating the different copies of the forms for distribution to the different offices/files. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
highpeak Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 We had a woman retire after about 40 years of service on the railroad and at the retirement party speech her boss recounted that when she started she was one of the best call girls and strippers they had. A call girl (or call boy) was the clerk that went to the hotels and notified the crews that they were "called" for duty on a train and a stripper was the clerk who stripped the multipart computer reports/forms, removing the tractor feed strips and carbon sheets, separating the different copies of the forms for distribution to the different offices/files. So she was in some ways a "knocker up". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 A "knocker" would be a "car knocker" or car man. A machinist would be a "nut buster". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matador Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 At least it is just a confusion and not as embarrassing as an Englishman walking into an office store and asking for an eraser, but using the usual vernacular word for it over here... (Rubber.) When we first moved to the US we got a call from my Daughters school she had asked for a rubber (eraser) .LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Tilt Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 The relative 'loudness' of US locos must be due to the hefty silencing that's required in Europe. The UK Class 66 has the same prime mover as an SD60, albeit a 12 cylinder 3300 hp version as opposed to a 16 cylinder 3800 hp version of the EMD 710 engine. But the 66 has that massive silencer crammed into the body above the engine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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