I am working on a school play, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly”, and I need some steam engine sounds that are similar to continental European 1940’s trains, such as starting, going at speed, and braking. I would like to find something that would take far too long to find using Google. Could you help?
Trainboy
P.S. I hope this isn’t the wrong type of thing for this forum.
A quickie search of “train sounds” on Ebay yielded this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4706155013&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
About a year ago I picked up a few German steam CDs in the railroadania section. There’s nothing but sound LPs there right now.
That link is blocked on this stupid #%!@ up school computer.
Trainboy
Anybody? I really need help with this.
Forgive me,
Trainboy
Log onto the Broadway site and download their steam engine samples.
I have a possible solution (how are you at looping and editing?). LGB’s website at www.lgb.de has samples of their sound units as wav files (there’s an english-language version, just click on the UK flag), these are usually starting away, then maybe whistling, then slowing down, so you might want to do some chopping, but they should be useful - they have European steamer sounds. Hope this helps!
Wait, doesn’t the Smithsonian or someone have a big collection of sounds, including trains, that I could buy? It may just be for a school production, but I would keep and enjoy the CD. Like the one I recorded of 45 minutes of 3 GP38-2s idling near my house at night and in -25c weather. Took me all of those 45 minutes to get frostnip while wearing my sandals[#offtopic]as usual.
Trainboy
Hello Trainboy,
Here you’ll find a link with exactly what you want on behalf of brakes (7x steam sounds).
http://www.chez.com/alaf/sons/index.html.
Hoping this will help.
Regards,
Andre
Brussels, Belgium (The beer country [:I])