Curve squeeling might be cool

[FJ and G]

The sounds of flanges grinding around curves might annoy many but it's part of RRing.

Would be nice if there were a sensor on the wheels that detected curves that could initiate the sounds.

Of course it would be good to turn it off as well.

Just a thought.

Actually, I'm going to use a tape recorder and tape the sounds and then put a track sensor on curves that will turn it on.

[daan]

You could use the kind of "sensor" in the CTT. The outer or inner rail in a curve would be isolated and as soon a car or train makes contact with both rails, they switch your taperecorder on..
To me it would be annoying because my layout is quite small and the squeeks would be there almost constantly. I wonder if any trainmanufacturer ever made these sounds in a boxcar or so??

[Anonymous]

This sound would be very appropriate for the MTH subway sets. I speak from experience as anyone who takes the subway at a station on a curve can tell you.

[daan]

@emmaandy, it has nothing to do with the subject.. The sites you mentionned are really cool. It is the kind of thing you need when your kid is going to be an engineer oneday.

[Anonymous]

Daan,

I think they are neat too. Kind of like Erector sets but all of the beams have potential to turn in to tracks. I wrote alot about them in the thread on "what the 0/0-27 market is like today" but I dont think many people here on this forum recognise them as toy trains because they don't look like the ones the had as kids.

Oh well. There is a saying here in the states about how you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Even if the trick is how to leave a burning building.

To get back on topic. Do monorails have squeeling wheels around curves? It has been a while since I have seen a real one but I think they have rubberized wheels, so probably not.

[lionelsoni]

Monorails have had all kinds of wheels and geometries, starting with the Listowel and Ballybunion in 1888. They have always been the railroad of the future; and I think that they always will be...;-)