You're most welcome! Very glad that it's helpful.
I've been trying to do my part in encouraging model railroads to become familiar with locomotive horns, something that many take for granted.
For years I wondered why train horns sounded so differently. As a teen in the late 70s-early 80s, I even took a "boom box" with me to tracksides and recorded trains. (Man, I know people in the street must have thought I was weird!)
Fast forward to about 3 years ago I stumbled onto 5 Chime Horn Consultants and I became hooked! I found other horn websites as well and was amazed that there are groups out there that actually collect horns. At about the same time, BLI pops onto the scene. So for modeling, I jumped onto the horn band wagon and even provided a few friendly suggestions to BLI as far as history and references of certain popular horns.
One of my favortie horns sites is: To me this site is "The bomb" for some sweet recordings. I've spoken to a rep of that club who is going to talk to a member about "considering" making horn recordings available for uploadable sound decoders. It's a long shot but I have a feeling this will eventually become reality with this or another club.
I'm going to be e-mailing them and see "how it's looking so far", especially now that Digitrax is offering "affordable" uploadable sound decoders. My "angle" is that neither Soundtraxx, Lok Sound, nor QSI offer other horns that are or were commonly used by railroads, such as the Nathan P5, Leslie SL4T (Amtrak only), and the Nathan K5H (very common today)
Believe me, if I had the time I would go to these clubs myself with quality recording equipment, work out the legal details, and get recordings of these horns myself. Then, I would make them available for downloading off of a website "free of charge", asking only for donations to maintain the website.
Some of you guys that are musicians and computer tech-heads can actually help in this area. It seems that the interest is there, but more effort is needed for modelers to visit horn clubs that may be in their area and talk about the potential.
Rightly or misguidedly, just my thoughts.
