Name: Ballard Terminal SW1 Idling And Slow Moves With In Cab Sounds by VR Chehalis
Duration: 32 min 57 s
Description: Ballard Terminal SW1 Idling And Slow Moves With In Cab Sounds

Reminds me of the trip Steve Eshom and I took on the Chelatchie Prarie railroad when we were in high school... I got to ride in the cab of the Alco S-4 on the way down the hill from Yacolt to Battle Ground...  from Yacolt to

Ballard Terminal SW1 Idling And Slow Moves With In Cab Sounds

Eastbound freight... Noise in downtown Monroe still not loud enough to overcome the sound of the distant train horns...

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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...

Ballard Terminal SW1 Idling And Slow Moves With In Cab Sounds

VR Chehalis

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Carla de la Gnomes

recorded hazardous noise

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