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Locomotive 5 Setup then Push.wav

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patchen

April 9th, 2006

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Sound effects > Other mechanisms, engines, machines
Austin, Texas, United States
field-recording LOCOMOTIVE

Diesel locomotive mates with, then pushes a freight train from the
rear. About halfway through the recording some weird scraping,
resonating sounds can be heard from the tracks in front of the mic,
locomotive is about 150 meters away. This sample pack is numbered
chronologically as edited from the original recording: Engine
approaches from left with recording #1 and exits to the right with
recording #5. Recordings are of a Diesel locomotive approaching and
mating with the rear of a freight train outside of a wherehouse in
Austin, Tx. Rode NT4 mic into Sound Devices MixPre, recorded at 16bit 44.1 with Sony Hi-Md. Edited In Cubase.

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engine
field-recording
locomotive
scraping
train

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

3:09.367

File size

31.9 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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bubbled

8 years, 3 months ago

Finally, a freighttrain that's going slow, and a great recording too. Thanks!

D
dakotaspirit

8 years, 11 months ago

The perfect sound to play when I'm running trains on my layout , great quality , many thanks.

C
cascadecreek

18 years, 1 month ago

The scraping noise you are hearing is locomotive wheel-slip.

Anton

19 years, 8 months ago

Fantastic samples. Thanks a lot for sharing!

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