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#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.

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Joseph King
Joseph King
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Whoa. Holy hell that train definitely sounds like it needed a good servicing a year or so ago, possibly longer.
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@jdking92 Yeah, and I forgot to actually clarify, this was in July of 2016. If that train is still alive I'll be damn surprised.
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Joseph King
Joseph King
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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.
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nellie-m
nellie-m
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i guess it wasn’t funny when you sat in there but I really have to laugh! Holy moly! That is one terrific soundtrack!
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@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?'
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Dave Taylor
Dave Taylor
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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?
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@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.
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Dave Taylor
Dave Taylor
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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
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x0
x0
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Lol the startup sounds like what I get when I ringmod a tone with a sweep!
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Patrick Perdue
Patrick Perdue
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Nah, it's just a mobile hard drive. Nothing to see here.
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x0
x0
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@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.
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Kara Goldfinch
Kara Goldfinch
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That sounds bizarre. If I didn't know what it is I wouldn't have said it was a train at all. especially that weird siren-like thing.
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@KaraLG84 Yeah, it's very odd indeed. I wonder if it's the Pantograph or whatever that thing is?
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Sarah Russell
Sarah Russell
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That is super nerve wracking sounding, was it just as shaky as it sounds?
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@blindbat84 From what I remember, yes. This was 2016, I forgot to clarify that in the initial post.
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ground024
ground024
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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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