Sound of steam engine wheels spinning.

Why not? You have train wreck sounds why not wheel slip. I suppose it could be put in a sound file and activated with a soft key on a DCS remote.

Lionel Century Club 726 sort of has this already, Railsounds with no traction tires. Can get some pretty good wheelspin out of the loco.

Ed beat me to it.  Yes the Century Club 726 and 671 both can have real wheel slip with the accompanying TMCC rapid chuff sounds (at least in the case of the 726).  It is pretty neat.  A good load, 18volts, and crank up the throttle.

excellent idea!!!

I have the century clubs 726 and 671, never had them on a track. Do they have magna traction? If not they would never make it up the steep grades on my pike. Honestly even with it they  may have a problem.

   I just got another brilliant idea, add sanders, duh! .

Neil 

I usually get actual wheel spin starting out with non-magnatraction post war steamers pulling a lot of cars (just like the real thing).  Too bad modern engines with their traction tires can do that on demand. 

May be that could be the next cool feature...Have a variable suspension on the axles with traction tires.  When you want wheel spin, it would lift the axles with the traction tires off the rail just slightly giving you the effect.  Couple that with some cool sounds and it would be complete.

The other option is just the sound effect in command mode and no movement while you hold the spin button.  Release the wheel spin button and the train would go at whatver speed you dialed in.

Naaaah,spinning wheels is the sign of a poorly skilled 1:48 engineer, much the same as wanting black smoke to come out of the stack indicates a poor fireman. I'm proud of any and all of the 1:48 engineers on my layout, as they can start any train without the slightest spin of the wheels and theres never a hint of black smoke.....I'm just sayin'.

Any good engineer sometimes slips wheels. This was for a photo run by of SP 2472. The train had to stop on a curve with heavyweight cars on a grade. We were lucky enough to have one of our cameras mounted next to the drivers. Don 

http://youtu.be/sFYRA8uQ-es

Rubber traction tires spoil all the fun

Next thing we'll trying to do wheelies , just picture that!!!

Neil

I think it's a great idea.

Mike R