Just a curiosity question, looking for confirmation or refutation. Anyway, I always puzzled over what the original diesel railsounds boxcar was intended to sound like. It certainly did not sound like an EMD diesel. I remember being told that it was a generic sound set to represent a generic diesel. But recently I listened to a sound set for an ALCO FA on a video tape and then listened to the ERR ALCO PA sound file. It seemed similar. Then I recalled that the Lionel ALCO PA might have been the first Lionel diesel with railsounds. So maybe, the generic railsounds are in fact ALCO sounds. What do you think?
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