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Chasing The Future?

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Posted by Rdrr on Monday, March 5, 2012 9:45 PM

Reminds me of a line, probably Groucho Marx, " If there's anything I can't stand it's a man who blows his own horn!".  Nice video.

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Posted by Lake on Monday, March 5, 2012 7:14 PM

A good video to me. And I have no clue what the sounds should be so they sounded just fine to me. When I heard the diesel engine, horn sound I just accepted them for what they are. Headphones

Now if the diesel sound was with the steam I would know that was incorrect.Confused

Ken G Price   My N-Scale Layout

Digitrax Super Empire Builder Radio System. South Valley Texas Railroad. SVTRR

N-Scale out west. 1996-1998 or so! UP, SP, Missouri Pacific, C&NW.

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Posted by Rangerover1944 on Monday, March 5, 2012 5:39 PM
AWESOME to me it is. I ain't no rivet counter, so I don't know, nor really care if it's the right bell, whistle, chuff, or diesel sound for each loco. Again to me "it's all good"! Nice job! Jim
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Posted by aloco on Monday, March 5, 2012 5:21 PM

The only thing I'll nit-pick about that video is the sound of the horn on the Trainmaster. It sounds like a large single trumpet horn.

CP Trainmasters would have had the Air Chime M3H three chime horn, which is tuned to a D minor chord.  The M3H was pretty much the standard horn on CN and CP diesels that were purchased in the 1950s.

The sound chip manufacturers probably don't have a recording of a Canadian diesel horn.

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Monday, March 5, 2012 4:58 PM

Chasing the future in a starship equipped with a J drive?  Seems to me that we don't have to chase the future. It'll get here before we're really ready for it.

More seriously; very nicely done. Unfortunately I blinked and missed the HSR set...

[For those unfamiliar, the J drive permits the craft in which it's installed to travel back in time in a controlled manner.  It does not work in the fast forward (from the present) mode.]

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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Chasing The Future?
Posted by BATMAN on Monday, March 5, 2012 4:04 PM

Chasing the future? 

Sometimes it's hard to choose an era to play with on any given day.

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                                                      BrentCowboy

Brent

"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."

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