I have an O gauge train/track installed on the ceiling train setup and am experience noise when operating the train. It's probably the steel wheels on the steel track and am wondering about solutions. I did use a cork roadbed and that evidently didn't do much in sound attenuation. Any suggestions?
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Atlas Track
I have thought of changing to all plastic wheels (suggested by the ceiling train guy); adding weight to the cars (would probably make it worse); or filling the cars with some kind of insulating substance.
Always amazed me as to how quiet the 2 rail, scale boys trains operate. i don't know why, but the sound those trains make, without recorded engine sounds, is much less than our, 3 rail trains make. Both are "0" gauge; both move along at similar speeds, the weights of the cars and engines are similar, both tracks are properly laid with cork, vinyl or rubber roadbed, but still, the 3 rail trains sound ever so much louder.
Any theories as to why this seems to be the case?
Paul Fischer
Could be more metal to metal contact plus some pickup rollers add to the sound.
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