Getting Real Column - 11
22: The Rock Island switcher that services the Kansas City
Power & Light building.
Creek Sounds:
A speaker located beneath Spavinaw Creek will
play the soothing sound of water flowing over stones.
Sugar Mill:
I will be modeling a Godchaux Sugar mill at
Rhodessa, Louisiana using the Walthers’ Greatland Sugar Mill kit.
The speaker will be located in the mill building. The sound track
was created from sounds recorded at a vintage steam-powered
sugar mill that operated on St. Kitts Island, in the Caribbean.
Downtown Shreveport, Louisiana:
the speaker for this
sound track will be hidden behind Shreveport Union Depot.
Since the depot was located at street level, it needs street
sounds. This sound track will include both downtown
sounds and train sounds.
Trolley Bell:
two automated trolley loops will run in the streets
to the east of Kansas City Union Station. An electronic circuit
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board will control the operation of the trolleys and their pass-
ing on the Grand Avenue Bridge. Each time the trolleys start,
the sound track will play the typical “ding-ding” followed by a
short section of traction motor acceleration.
Frye Machining:
A construction article for this typical old-style
factory building appeared in the Model Railroader Magazine,
April 1958. At 11 years old, I tried unsuccessfully to build an HO
scale version. I even turned the smokestack out of cedar wood.
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23: Here is my low-tech so-
lution for resetting the SW7
sound track.
24: Photo of the prototype
Peterson Feed Mill.
MRH-Jun 2013
