Now Here Are Some Real Station Sounds For Your Layout

Wow, this will be fun to use - what a cadence!

Nice recording, Bob.  Sure wish the destinations were those that were for the part of the country I could use.  And speaking of station sounds, I would really like to see an accessory that plays train announcements through station speakers, not through the locomotive on a visiting passenger train.  MTH has their station sounds, although no where near as authentic as your recording, for a particular train on a particular route, but the engines shouldn't talk; the stations should!

Doesn't someone make such an accessory; a recorder/player and miniature speaker, operated either automatically by the  train itself or remote control by an operator?  It wouldn't be difficult to have different recordings activated by different trains so that the sound would have more variety and be more accurate.  And, if the recordings would sound like Danial Simmons or another long time train announcer, it would be all the better.

Paul Fischer

I grew up in Penn Station.

To me he sounded as if he was calling a horse race. BF

Very cool!  Actually makes it fun to listen for your station being called!

As he was calling out the destination names from NY to Slidell and NO I was visualizing the Amtrak map.

Yeah, it did sound like a horse race or even a boxing match.

Thanks for the link!

Years ago, if I had an occasion to be in Penn Station, in Manhattan, N.Y.C., there was a male announcer who would call out; "Lake Ronkonkamaaaaa," as one of the scheduled L.I., N.Y. stations.

I don't know if he was Mr. Simmons.

RJL