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You can’t tell the the players without a scorecard: from left to right we have Robert Ding- man, the president of the New York & Lake Erie R.R.; Jason Shron, president of Rapido Trains, Inc.; and Bill Schneider, product development, Rapido Trains, Inc., getting to- gether in mid-May to plan the day’s work. Jason had arranged the trip to make sound recordings of the NY&LE’s FPA-4’s for use in a future DCC sound decoder.
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tle, among other things, and a decent bell (always troublesome to do elec- tronically, as the Milwaukee Road proved before it went broke). The PFM sound system was later tweaked and there are modelers who still use it. The original version did not support walka- round control but had a console. The second iteration also used a console, but I do recall (perhaps wrongly) an eventual walkaround option. Steam was one thing, diesels another. One of the better early diesel sound systems was Keller Engineering’s On- board system, which used walkaround throttles and created the sound “on board,” hence its name. This was intro- duced in the early eighties, then faded
as new ways of doing things evolved, the infra red-controlled throttle/sound sys- tem from Sountraxx being one of them. The sound on it (both steam and diesel) was quite good. Sound was becoming more and more accessible to us. Digital Command Control (DCC) has
been with us in a “mature form” for about a decade now, and sound has been part of its growth. Standing at “aisle- side” when a train rolls through is more and more like standing at trackside, and things are only getting better. In mid-May I was invited to see how
this is coming to pass and partly an- swer the questions, “Where does all that sound come from and how do we get it in a decoder?”
Days of sound checks and duct tape: Jason and Bill climbed onto the roof of the 6758 to find the best location for the recorder. After listening to recordings of the unit at idle and a couple of r.p.m. run-ups, he found a slight hiss in the background, an air intake, a fan or whatever. Moving to the 6761 he found the clear sound he was looking for. Notice the recorder is not right next to the exhaust. Also, what did we ever do before duct tape?
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