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rumble that's typical when
the cars start to roll. Then con-
tinue to play car rumble along
with car creaking, and some
wheel and track noise. You
could even program in some
random flange squeal. When
the train slows to stop, again,
more car rumble as the cars
bunch up to a stop.
It seems to me this would be
rather easy to do and would
add a lot to the fun of run-
ning a train. When dubbing
sounds into a model train
video, just adding in the loco
sounds makes the video feel
kind of flat. Adding in the train
sounds really brings a model
video alive (for an example
of this see our Hot Trains
video,which has dubbed in
train sounds as well as loco
sounds). It should be no dif-
ferent when running a model
in person.
The other thing I have often
wondered about was if you
could program some wireless
headphones to take the sound
decoder feed and get more
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