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N scale sound - 1
When digital sound decoders appeared on the market
several years ago, I was skeptical. Given the size of
N-scale models, I thought that sound installations
could never reproduce the sonic impact of a Berkshire steam
loco starting a train, or the deep vibration of an EMD 567C
V-16 prime mover in a GP9. But then I decided to try it, first in
the tender of a Walthers/LifeLike N-scale Berkshire.
What I realized is that while
my intuition about the “size”
of the sound produced was
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