QSI Decoder mistake?

[Anonymous]

Listen to this:

http://www.atlasrr.com/sound/840cw/HO103F06.mp3

It's a sound byte of the Atlas HO 8-40CW. Now, is it just me, or does that whine sound just like an EMD 645? The chugga chugga chugga chugga sounds like a GE to me, but I never knew Dash 8s to whine. Maybe I'm just not paying close enough attention.

Well[?]

[jrbernier]

It does have that 'throaty' GE sound in the first part of the sound byte.....and the newer GE's(not the U Boats) are more like late model EMD's.

Jim

[AntonioFP45]

Hi 4884BigBoy,

I listened carefully. It is a modern GE. The turbochargers are a little more pronounced than in the earlier GEs.

It is fun though, listening to locomotive sounds, isn't it? To my wife it's weird, but she doesn't complain as it beats drinking or getting high on weed!

[Anonymous]

Antonio,

You bet! Can't get enough. [:D]

[gregmc]

Well about the first 1-2 seconds sound like a GE then it winds up in QSI fashion and doens't sound like any GE I have ever heard. I hear GE AC4400s, Dash 8s, Dash 9s, C30-7s, C36-7s and B36-7s all the time as I live 60 feet from the C&O main through WV and I am not sure what QSIs GE loco is a recording of. To me it sounds like they recorded a GE idling and then have the decoder speed up the playback to represent the loco speeding up. In my opinion it is a pathetic attempt at a GE.

Greg McCartney