New zealand ja class locomotive coming into, stationed at and leaving hamilton station. Homeward bound to auckland (glennbrook) after a joint day trip to national park and back. Recorded in very cold conditions with a sony dictaphone, near 10pm nzst.
Various trains passby:train passby, squeetching wheels, rythmic train mechanics. Build up, fast and slow passby. Recorded with a zoom h4 (120 degree setting), at night in düsseldorf, germany. Unprocessed.
Recording of a diesel loc, part of a maintenance train, returning to depot at about 1am. Recorded from my bathroom window in cardiff east. Repetive sound, thythmic in nature but with a clear pitch. Occasional white noise from airbrakes. Recorded with zoom h2n, 44. 1/24.
Crossing bell and diesel locomotive. Locomotive goes from stop to a slow start with crossing bell. Recorded in dillsboro, nc. Part of the smoky mountain railway.
Sounds from a steam-train, squeaking and rattling inside with no additional passenger sounds (no one else was in that coach). The recording starts with the train approaching in the station and the squeaking of the brakes and the hiss of the steam. This particular train goes up and down the "brocken" in the harz, germany.
Stereo recording of three linked diesel locomotives idling in the train yard. Captured from the side and roughly centre, with work sheds to the left. Recorded with a zoom h1, mastered in sound forge 5. Eq'ed to reduce low-end rumble and edited for easy looping.
Stereo recording of three linked diesel locomotives idling in the train yard. Captured at an angle to the lead engine, with the others muffled by work sheds. Recorded with a zoom h1, mastered in sound forge 5. Eq'ed to reduce low-end rumble and edited for easy looping.
A train of coal cars led by one diesel engine and pushed by two diesel engines passes right-to-left as it exits the west vivian tunnel in kimball, wv. Recorded with a tascam dr100mi.
A bell announces a train is coming, quickly followed by the roar of an approaching engine. Many train cars pass in a cacophony of steel wheels and roaring mass, followed by a fade-out.
Here is a recording i took of a train passing by my apartment. I used it for an electroacoustic composition and got some really rich and dynamic motifs from it. Enjoy!.
Sounds of the smoky mountain railway in bryson city, north carolina. Includes many sounds of starting with some diesel locomotives, depot ambient noise with passengers, and goes into the steam locomotive preparing to leave the station then goes into sounds of the locomotive as recorded from between the cars with a very nice steam locomotive whistle blowing frequently.
A fast train is passing by at udelnaya station, st. Petersburg, russia. Binaural recording with soundman okm`s and a h4n. If you want to support my work, please visit:jardinsonore(. )bandcamp(. )comthere you find a lot more.
In the city of aarhus, denmark, very early morning the empty train station gave me the chance to record the diesel engine of the regional train's locomotiverecorded with tascam dr-10048000 hz stereo, 16-bit wave pcm uncompressed.
(recorder: zoomh4npro 2018)(microphones: binaural roland cs-10em in-ear monitors). As these are recorded using binaural in-ear mics, i purposefully don't turn my head to keep the sound clean and coming from the same direction. The amtrak pacific surfliner winds it'd way up and down the pacific coast coast. This train is known for spectacular coastal views. Here you can hear this high-speed train come screaming through burbank's downtown station (traffic can be heard on i-5 in the distance). You will hear a security guard walk behind me just before the train comes through. He was one of our trusty transpo officers making sure i wasn't up to no good with my zoomh4n device. Thanks for keeping us all safe officers!. The train makes a pass from right to left and i kept recording so you would have some room-tone at the tail. Enjoy!. Christopher c. Courter.
Not perfect, but not bad, here's a freight train passing only a few feet in front of the recording device. . . Enjoy! this train is passing through houston, british columbia, canada on a cold winter morning.
One steam train engine cycle extracted and cleaned up. A single steam train chuff without the background steam hiss. Credit to keith peter for the original field recording: https://freesound. Org/people/keithpeter/sounds/125211/.
