First "Steam Soundz" Sound File Released

The steam locomotive sound file, Steam Soundz: Modern Medium Steam 1, can now be found on the Trainz Download Station by searching for KUID: 123250:1103, or follow this link to install it. This is the first of a series of sound files we've created for use in Trainz 2009/2010.

Steam Soundz #1 was created for modern (U.S.R.A. era and later) North American steam locomotives of medium size, e.g. Mikados, Pacifics, Hudsons, Berkshires, etc. If used with a properly configured Trainz locomotive, these sound files will produce the four chuffs were driver revolution typical of 2-cylinder locomotives. The sound files are based primarily on recordings made in the 1980s of steam locomotive #765, a 2-8-4 "Berkshire" type steam locomotive built in 1944 for for Nickel Plate Road (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co.). More information on NKP #765 can be found at the Web site of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society.

You can view the video below to listen to sounds produce in Trainz by the enginesound, or view it directly from YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzTCBch-HVk

About the Video In this video, a 4-6-2 U.S.R.A. (light) Pacific type locomotive, pulling a train of five passenger cars, accelerates from 0 to about 60 MPH on an uphill section of the B&O's "17 Mile Grade". As is the case in all of the Steam Soundz videos, the purpose of the video is to provide an example of what this particular sound file (enginesound) sounds like when used in Trainz.