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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 6, 2005 1:54 PM
i'll have to make one of our 'deere startin up on a chilly morning. best to have the doors on the shed all open and a full can of ether.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 5, 2005 4:11 PM
thanks for the great link.

I'm suprized there aren't more EMD and GE recordings, since these are so common these days.

I hear EMD starting up at about 7:30 am almost every morning because I pass near the back of the station, but I don't know where my head is and where my***is that early in the morning, so I never recorded it.
I love the sound, like a giant vacuum cleaner being turned on, then it goes into a wild turbo whine, then down to the normal whine.
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Posted by coborn35 on Saturday, November 5, 2005 4:10 PM
Like this: boom...........................boom....................................boom............................boom................boom.........boom......boom.boomboomboomboomboom, dumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdum so on

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Posted by Eddystone on Saturday, November 5, 2005 2:55 PM
Electro, here is a link to sounds of Alcos, FMs and Baldwin locos.

http://yardlimit.railfan.net/gallery/tad/sounds.html

I found a link before of Lima diesel switcher sounds but I did'nt bookmark it, it's out on the web somewhere, hope this helps.
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Posted by adrianspeeder on Saturday, November 5, 2005 2:37 PM
I got one of a Powerstroke startin on a cold mornin.

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startup sound
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 5, 2005 1:08 PM
I've been googling and only found one good sound of Alco startup.
Anyone know any specific links where I can find sounds of different engines startup and other engine sounds too?



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