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Steam locomotive train

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knufds

September 5th, 2009

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Sound effects > Vehicles

1948 Greenbrier 4-8-4 locomotive. The last commercially built mainline passenger train steam locomotive built in America. Locomotive number 614 was completed at the Lima Locomotive Works in Ohio in June of 1948 for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.

Locomotive #614 is 16 feet tall, 112 feet long, weighs 434 tons, develops about 5,000 horsepower and is capable of running at 120 miles per hour.

This recording, is co614 Southbound passing through Mahwah NJ whilst blowing whistle and was pulling about twenty-four passenger cars on a Hoboken NJ to Port Jervis NY excursion, which ran from 1996-1998.

Microphones: Left and Right: Shure SM-57s, 120 degrees, X/Y configuration; Center mic: AT-4041;

co614 official website
co614 photos

AFAIK, CO614 is on display at the B&O Railroad museum in Baltimore MD.

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historic
locomotive
railroad
steam-train
train-whistle
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Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:55.963

File size

9.4 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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tkgray

12 years, 1 month ago

Love it!

everythingso...

12 years, 1 month ago

Stunning.

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gusandpat

12 years, 5 months ago

Great job , Many thanks

fauxpress

13 years, 2 months ago

Superduper. Takes me right there. Downloaded so I can listen to it with the big speakers :) Thanks!

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Heather02021991

13 years, 11 months ago

This is Phenomenal, gave me chills beautiful work!!

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