#AudioMo: I'm on the way to Cambridge on what appears to be either an old, or just very noisy train, I'm not sure which. All I know is that the thing is clunky and sounds like it's falling to bits around me.
Same. I'm shocked they allowed it on the rails with how that drive train sounded. Damn thing sounded like it was gonna come apart even at low speeds. And those things are electric. I can only imagine how bad it'd be if that was a diesel.
@nellie_m It freaked me out, genuinely. But I got home, I survived, so now I listen back and wonder to myself... 'If that train could talk, what would it be telling me? What stories does it contain?'
That sounds like a class 365 to me with that motor, but I thought they were all out of service now. Did it have blowers above you and loud slammy doors?
@davetaylor2112 I had to repost that twice, in the first instance I added when it happened because client crashed. This actually was 2016, not today. My bad.
Ah, they were in service then. Among the most comfortable trains there were I thought, and really nice ride quality, but 90s built trains sound very different to modern ones
@BorrisInABox God with modern advances in the storage density of those things imagine just how much space a hard drive that size would boast? Also holy shit to be remotely performant it'd need an absolutely ridiculous number of parallel heads.
Glad you made it safe on that rattling train and thanks for the recording. I've not herd an electric motor used with a truck type transmission before so the start of the recording is especially interesting. You get to hear how the gear ratios were designed.
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