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Has anyone found a decent GG1 sound decoder?.....or know what a GG1 sounds like?
I have no idea what they sound like, but I do like the way the GG1 looks and think it along with the 10 car Kato Broadway Limited passenger cars would look great on our N-Trak layout.
Let me know!!
dwight77
dwight77 Wrote:Has anyone found a decent GG1 sound decoder?.....or know what a GG1 sounds like?
I have no idea what they sound like, but I do like the way the GG1 looks and think it along with the 10 car Kato Broadway Limited passenger cars would look great on our N-Trak layout.
Let me know!!
dwight77

"decent GG1 sound decoder"? There is nothing but GG1 sound decoders out there. Even QSI's "acela" sound decoder is just a GG1 sound with K5LA horns.

Loksound might be a good choice for after-market sound. QSI is good also. Unfortunately, i've never heard a GG1 either (before my time). I couldn't tell you if the sounds on DVDs or online videos are truly correct.

The only thing I was told was that based on the gearing (passenger or freight) the locomotives sounded different. I couldn't tell you how exactly.

jwb

My experience, for what it's worth, is that there are two basic sounds in an electric locomotive, gear growl and traction motor (or other equipment) blowers. Jack shaft locos have additional siderod clank. (There are David J Williams III DVDs out there with the VGN EL-3s and authentic sound.) I grew up in part hearing the old DL&W 3000-volt MIU cars from 1930, and they had a very pronounced gear growl that I learned to recognize in the sounds of other electrics. (For that matter, I once rode directly behind an F40, in the vestibule, and heard a gear growl there, too.) With a GG!, you would hear blowers, gear growl on acceleration, and the noise of wheels on track. My impression of GG1s going by at stations was it was a combination of roar-whoosh. But the problem with the PRR/NEC was that it was harder to be close to trackside or close to the loco, whereas the DL&W in my childhood was always right there on my way to school!
jwb Wrote:My experience, for what it's worth, is that there are two basic sounds in an electric locomotive, gear growl and traction motor (or other equipment) blowers. Jack shaft locos have additional siderod clank. (There are David J Williams III DVDs out there with the VGN EL-3s and authentic sound.) I grew up in part hearing the old DL&W 3000-volt MIU cars from 1930, and they had a very pronounced gear growl that I learned to recognize in the sounds of other electrics. (For that matter, I once rode directly behind an F40, in the vestibule, and heard a gear growl there, too.) With a GG!, you would hear blowers, gear growl on acceleration, and the noise of wheels on track. My impression of GG1s going by at stations was it was a combination of roar-whoosh. But the problem with the PRR/NEC was that it was harder to be close to trackside or close to the loco, whereas the DL&W in my childhood was always right there on my way to school!

Yeah, I'm always told that the MP54s have a "unique" sound, but i can never be sure if the sounds on my DVDs are just dubbed, or if they are legitimate. I have a DVD on SEPTA that covered the retirement of the "blueliners", the old 1930 MU cars that got retired in 1989. I imagine they most sound like the gear growl. The DVD makes them sound like its grinding bolts.

Its always frustrated me though, that somehow, model manufacturers have GG1 sounds, but they don't have an AEM7 or Acela sound. For an AEM7, you don't even have to both Amtrak. MARC and SEPTA have them, and as far as SEPTA goes, those locomotives just sit there most of the day.

How hard could it get the sounds for these? I really wish they had sounds for the recitifiers as well, since I can't believe they all sound the same.
I don't know how I missed this thread but....

I heard the MYH G scale G1 at a train show a few years ago and it's accurate. Gear growl, Motor noises, Bells horn, coupling and uncoupling all either extremely close to accurate or perfect as much as I can remember thaqt is Smile Smile

I could sit at my house (3 blocks from the NEC) and tell when a GG1 went by. I could also tell if it was a doubleheader by the noise. I've seen them from about 20 ft away at our local train station. They were always on the inside (freight) rails. I could tell by the motor's tones and the sound weather it was a GG1 or not before they came around the curve a 1/4 mile away. Just from the sound resonating along the rails.