I was parked along Auburn Way and heard this train coming North on the mainline in the middle of the night, hence the near absence of automotive vehicle noises...  Recorded with electret condenser mics plugged into a Sony minidisc recorder sometime in the late 1990's... Note the incredibly loud whine coming from one of the engines. This train was pulling a fairly short manifest on nearly zero grade but the power was struggling to keep it moving, so I am guessing the whiny engine was experiencing something of a "technical difficulty", my guess being a short-or-open-circuit alternator winding...

Auburn Alternator Failure

"Railgeek" brought his horn truck over to the Chehalis "Oktoberfest" camera meetup,  with some horns and a bell, which were demonstrated, and I recorded.  His vehicle was positioned closest to the "left" mics I was using to record the passing trains with...  What is most instructive about this track is that despite the obvious microphone clipping on the left channel the right one only 16 feet more distant wasn't, or a marvelous demonstration of the "inverse square law" as it applies to sound pressure level from a point source ;)  Using the -10dB pad on the Audio-Technica 2035 microphones would have likely solved the clipping issue...

Chehalis VRF Oktoberfest Meet R.S. Horn Tests (might Have Clipped The Closer Mics)

Hacked a chunk of another file I had kicking around on a hard drive, to form, if looped appropriately, a backing "track"... Pun intended ;)

Merry Christmas

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Yanking the bunched slack, sampled and looped... More banger twisted tunes...

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Pair of UP GE engines idling at Belfair while working the garbage reload...

More Amplified Idling GE's

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Accelerating Southbound after sitting in the "West Street Penalty Box" awaiting a signal to proceed...
Recorded 20 May 2023. Used Audio Technica 2035 mics and Tascam DR100 field recorder.

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This is the "primary free" account.  The good stuff is now at  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=84902927
Once I get stuff uploaded... Any suggestions?

Auburn Alternator Failure

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