A Different Train Sound Idea

Sure is potential to add sounds to building. Are you saying it might be more realistic to have clickety-clack come from a fixed location because that's how it is for us in real life along the tracks? You might be onto something!

I don't know where you have been watching trains but, there hasn't been any "clickety-clack", i.e. rail joints, on main line railroad tracks for some 30 or more years. What with the continued use and expansion of CWR (Continuous Welded Rail) "clikety-clack" is now gone.

@Hot Water posted:

I don't know where you have been watching trains but, there hasn't been any "clickety-clack", i.e. rail joints, on main line railroad tracks for some 30 or more years. What with the continued use and expansion of CWR (Continuous Welded Rail) "clikety-clack" is now gone.

So what?  Many people are modeling time periods a lot older than 30 years.

This might interest you from @gunrunnerjohn

Finally, the Universal MP3 Sound Board Has Arrived

I’m pretty sure Lionel had something like that in an earlier catalog but never was made. Don’t know why it wasn’t made but I think it would be a hit.

I think the sound comes from loose fish plates not rail joints, but I think it can still be heard.

There is a simple no cost way to get "clickety-clack".  I did it on my N Gauge.

Cut notches equally spaced in the top of the rails.  You can do it with a triangular file.  You would only have to do the outer rails.

John

@rdg_fan posted:

I think the sound comes from loose fish plates not rail joints, but I think it can still be heard.

Yep. It makes a sound. Plus, I don't know what's wrong with the tracks by me but many of them have rail joints.

I dig the clickety-clack regardless. I think GRJ's universal sound board could satisfy OP's needs. Hopefully he'll post if he pursues it.