The sounds on this CD represents a busy junction during the transition from steam to diesel. Steam trains are heard starting, accelerating, drifting at speed and working grades. Diesels are heard passing with freight and passenger trains, as well as switching the small yard.
How did we do it? We started with the sounds of songbirds recorded in the woods in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. With this as a backdrop, we added train after train into the mix until there is something happening all the time. There is either a train passing, approaching, or fading at any given moment; and much of the time more than one train can be heard.
This CD is comprised of a single 61 minute track, and the following is heard in this order:
A GP9 passes with a freight
A 2-8-4 passes working upgrade
A Local freight arives
A 4-8-2 passes working upgrade
A GP9 passes with a train
The Local begins switching
A 4-8-2 passes at speed
A 4-6-6-4 accelerates past
The local continues switching as a 4-8-2 works upgrade
A 4-6-6-4 drifts past at speed
The local continues switching
A GP9 passes with a train
E9s pass at speed with a passenger train
The local continues switching as a 4-6-2 departs
The local continues switching as a 2-8-0 works upgrade
The local continues switching as a 2-8-0 stops to line a switch
A 4-8-2 and a 2-8-4 pass at speed
A 4-8-2 accelerates past
A 2-6-2 works upgrade
A 4-6-0 departs
Two Geep powered trains pass
A 4-8-2 passes at speed
A 4-8-2 works upgrade as F7 passes with a train
A 4-6-2 departs
A 4-8-2 drifts by at speed
A 2-6-2 works upgrade
A 4-6-2 passes as a 4-8-2 departs
An F7 passes as a GP9 passes in the opposite direction