Several days ago I had a couple of guests who were not able to take the stairs to the basement. Instead, they were very happy when I told them that I could play some of the videos I had of the layout. They went to the family room, where we have the 60” TV, and I started with the most recent video; the subject of this thread.
I left the room to get other information I wanted to share with them after the videos were over, and while fiddling with magazines and books in another room, I heard the whistle of steam locomotive. It sounded just like the whistle of the vintage movies of the real Big Boy, so I hurried back to the family room to see how or why a different video, other than mine, was playing.
Fooled! It was my video (at 8:44), where the Big Boy on reverse approaches a grade crossing in route to couple with the train, and the whistle sounded exactly like the real one as I have heard it. When I first ran my Big Boy back in December, I did not think that the quillable effect was prototypical, but I thought it was still ‘OK’.
Well, after what happened that night, I admit I was wrong – Lionel did an excellent job in duplicating the real thing. Thank you, Lionel!
Alex
I am glad that you were able to show these visitors your layout.
I have to say that I am very happy with my Visionline Big Boy as well!
Chris
