3,311 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Empty Railroad Car"

This is about 2 minutes total. It is of an approaching long freight train passing about 100 yards away in it's entirety. Train was doing around 45 mph. There are no other background sounds, no traffic, no crossing alarms, no street noise, no airplanes, no people, etc. There are three diesel electric locomotives in the front, then about a mile of freight cars, then one diesel electric locomotive "pushing" from the rear (it almost sounds like a jet engine!). Recorded alongside the tracks in open west texas desert! recorded using a panasonic dvx200 with a rode shotgun mic & deadcat. Audio extracted from the video file.

Synthesized train horn using moderately manipulated french horn ensemble library. The train sounds like it is coming toward the listener through pitch and volume effects. I removed the panning i originally made it with so you can manipulate that to your liking. This is offered with cc0, but if you can attribute, please do.

Canadian pacific gp38-2s 3126 and 4429 idling, ringing bell twice, then accelerating away.

A freight train recording from western new york, usa. Recorded with a zoom h1n at 24-bit, 48khz, stereo but reduced to flac 16-bit for file size. Microphone was roughly 500 meters away with houses in-between.

Canadian pacific train accelerating through town with a squealing car and mid-train locomotive signalling two crossings.

Krakow railway station ambience.

Krakow railway station ambience.

Krakow railway station ambience.

Krakow railway station ambience.

Krakow railway station ambience.

Krakow railway station ambience.

Krakow railway station ambience.

A train passing by in russia.

Another recording of the idling train engine, this time with the spitting sound more towards a struggling pneumatic (air) valve. Also the alarm sound is more of a continuous cycling engine hum.

Recording from inside the doorway of a carriage arriving into saltash, cornwall, recorder on a tascam dr 40.

Czech locomotive skoda 182-155-2 with coal transport / czeska lokomotywa skoda 182-155-2 z transportem węglatascam dr100mkiii + rode nt4.

This is a stereo recording of a quiet modern train passing. The recording position was below the tracks, as the tracks were on the embankment. 897e ab kraków quiet train passing 16_15 22-02-27 mixpre-515.

Passenger train interior, lightly loaded, seated near the coupling end. Train slows from full speed, stops at a station, then continues back up to full speed. A few incoherent conversations and one station announcement. Recorded on chicago metra 2022.

Tried to remove all noise. Wanted the voices. Failed. But i somehow like the result. . .

Train station announcement over loudspeaker.

An empty soda can being crumpled and tapped. Microphone: zoom h2soda: i can't remember.

Recorded on 16 march 2020, the first day of the nationwide coronavirus quarantine in poland. Warsaw university library is all closed except for a kiosk and a toilet. This recording was made near the latter.

Recorded this in my backyard at midnight, my neighbors probably hate me now. Recorded on a tascam dr-70d with a rode ntg-3. File is stereo but contains two of the same mono track for ease of use. Slight compression, eq, cleaning and limitting added for extra cripness. Let me know in the comments if you can use this, i'd love to read it!.

Its a grumble noise.

Hitting a table with a bottle or ceramic container.

Recorded in an open field, distant gun shots heard.

Mono 96/24 recording of a sink being drained. Has nice deep gurgle at the end. Equipment used: rode nta1-a large diaphragm condenser.

2 seconds of silence in mp3 format. Response to some requests for mp3 versions of silence samples.

4 seconds of silence in mp3 format. Response to some requests for mp3 versions of silence samples.

An empty soap bottle pressed. Organic sound + clicrecorded with a zoom h2n.

Recorded this in an empty part of a building, may or may not have some reverb there, dunno.

10 seconds of silence in mp3 format. Response to some requests for mp3 versions of silence samples.

Train passes right to left at middle speed. Microphones close to the railway. France, 2013. Recorded with schoeps oct set up reduced to stereorecorded on sounddevice 744t24 bits, 48khz, stereo.

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.

Recorded: 2018 june 29 @ 9:35 a. M.

Standing next to a lokomotive. It is just running the engines and waiting to get green lights. 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.

Recorded with an h4n in hanahan, south carolina. Did my best guess with the geo-tag but i really have no idea. It's near charleston, sc. Anyway, its a few minutes of recording. That train was a real chatterbox. :).

This is the arrival of the class 40 locomotive into bury station on the east lancashire railway. The sound was recorded from bury south signal box as the train rounded the curve into bury bolton st station. This was recorded on the h4n. The date of the recording was 12th january 2013.

Sound of dinging train crossing signal while sound of train approaches.

A train passed during one of my movie shoots and decided to record it. This file is untouched so there is some mic noises in the beginning. Feel free to use this file as you please.

Passenger train on the run. Recorded between the waggons. You can hear the wheels clatter, sounds of the railroad crossings alarms passing by, etc. Recorded with zoom h2.

Switching locomotive working in a denver freight yard. Recorded on a superscope cassette deck with a vintage realistic electret microphone.

Amtrak cardinal route eastbound (chicago to new york). Recorded east of montgomery, wv, traveling approximately 40-50 mph. Recorded with josephson c700s (output is soundfield w, x, and y channels) at 96 khz, 24 bit. Encoded to stereo nos with harpex. If you would like a higher resolution version of this recording, pm me.

Microphones 2x rode nt5 (ortf) and rode ntg-3.

Long freight train, medium speed. Moving ~20mph with slight acceleration. Recording distance ~50 ft on breezy day.

The recording was made by the tracks not not at the train station. I recorded this on a trail near the firth of forth. Waiting for the train :) i think i can hear the sound of the tracks and the passing train with interest. Enjoy.

Sitting on a diesel-powered, two wagon local train in the midsummer heat.

A gallon bottle of water being poured into a kitchen sink.

3030 rifle ejecting a spent (empty) casing onto the floor.