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#1 User is offline   Frank Musick 

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Posted 21 December 2021 - 12:22 PM

According to John H. White's book American Locomotives the cutoff on the particular valve gear valve gear Winans designed for these engines caused an intermittent exhaust, At first I thought this might sound similar to an articulated locomotive with two exhaust strokes. For a reason I cannot recall I decided on a three cylinder engine instead and used the sounds from a Union Pacific 9000 series.

Not sure if it's anywhere near correct, and the locomotive travel MUCH too fast (camels couldn't keep up steam past 15 mph) but I like the way it sounds. Call it artistic license, especially since there are no recordings of the beasties at work.

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Posted 21 December 2021 - 12:41 PM

There is nothing wrong with artistic license.
Without it we would have nothing available in V scale. Or HO or G, ect.
Compromise is why we're still a species.

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