I’m not generally a fan of sound locos due to the conspicuous absence of all the other ambient sounds, railroad-sourced and otherwise. Wouldn’t an adaptation of the “Surroundtraxx” system have been ideal for what you’re talking about? Whatever happened to that, anyway?Even though it’s dubbed sound, exhibit “A” for ideal model RR sound effects (to me) is the video posted here recently by Grant Eastman:
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