@scott.smith posted:<snip>
I was in Andy's office a couple of years back and he was telling me it was getting too expensive to produce traditional and command trains at the same time. They were not getting enough conventional trains orders the justify their production and they were causing everything to cost more. "People wanting traditional trains want it to sound like the originals." I said "then give them what they want, change the sound files; record the engine sounds of a traditional locomotives with air whistles and give the traditionalist original sounds. Andy paused and then said "you know we could do that." "Yes, I know you can do that."
That might work, for the hearing impaired. 
I'm afraid that would be just attempting an end run around the central emotive issue.
Respectfully,
Bob
