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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Locomotive Insanity: Murder on the BNSF Mixed Consist doesnt have the same ring to it
 
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genuinebald
Jul 10, 2008

Use me! Only use ME!
 Here in Austria our Trains are very musical :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdaqeTgpTSs

Here a more elaborate variant as the engine control tries to prevent slippage and adjusts the motors automatically:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRf30pVGMp4

And yes that they play a musical scale is deliberate. Engineers thought if they can't avoid the humming of the power converters they can at least tune them to sound nicer.

genuinebald fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Jan 11, 2013

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Locomotive Insanity: Murder on the BNSF Mixed Consist doesnt have the same ring to it