I'm just curious how members feel about the new steamer PS-3 engine sounds. They are definitely different from the PS-2 engines and it is very noticeable when running them together. Did someone record an engine with leaky valves? I'm not complaining or unhappy at all, just curious.
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I'm just curious how members feel about the new steamer PS-3 engine sounds. They are definitely different from the PS-2 engines and it is very noticeable when running them together. Did someone record an engine with leaky valves? I'm not complaining or unhappy at all, just curious.
I just got my new LV Hudson with proto 3 sounds and they are great. More like the PS 2 Chugs but better. For some reason the new Northerns with PS 3, at least the one I got, has more of a woosh sound than a chug sound. So I guess this is not simply a PS 3 thing by itself. I never intended this to be a comparisom to Lionel sound.
Did someone record an engine with leaky valves? I'm not complaining or unhappy at all, just curious.
Yes, MTH has a number of steam locomotive sound packages with "bad valve packing" (that is the technical term for what most people call valve rings). They have a "squeak" every fourth chuff, and as I recall they have some other interesting "bad valve" sounds, which subsequently effect the exhaust chuff sound.
I have a PRR H10b 2-8-0 with that "squeaking" exhaust sound, and just love it. I get lots of comments whenever I have PRR locomotives out on the layout, and that H10b is switching in the yard.
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