Doctor Anspach:
Apparently QSI located the last surviving
operational Winton 201 on a fire boat on the East Coast. You can read about
it at:
QSI has a sound clip at:
I don't know how the Winton 201 sounded,
but the QSI sound file is probably much more authentic than the
EMD 567 sound file recommended by the other decoder manufacturers for
9900.
The Silver Streak soundtrack file represents
circa 1935 sound technology, so it's a poor representation of the true sound of
a Winton 201. It was the best sound file available until the new QSI release,
and it was available as a free download.
I would invite anyone familiar with the
Winton 201 sound to listen to the QSI clip and inform us of it's authenticity.
Meanwhile, I suspect that the QSI sound file is the best
representation of a Winton 201 that we're going to get, and I'm going to install
the new Titan-U with stereo speakers in my Con Cor twin headlight
Zephyr.
Nelson P. Moyer, Ph.D., D(ABMM),
MMR
Iowa City
Perhaps
there has been a development of which I am unaware, but to my knowledge there
is not a single operable Winton 201/201A engine (such as that in the PIONEER
ZEPHYR and FLYING YANKEE) anywhere, and not likely to be given the
absolute lack of parts, so I am curious as to what engine QSI is purporting to
represent the PZ 201? Apparently, there are some operating Winton
submarine engines, but none of them are the distinctive 201s.
Preston Cook, the ranking expert on Winton has an excellent note on
the Winton engines at: http://utahrails.net/loconotes/pcook-winton.php.
It was he who personally warned me of the absence of any operable
engines from which to record. A minor addendum to his note is that there
are two other existing 201 Winton engines, the 12 cylinder pair removed from
the A unit of the first CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO E-2 A-B-B set. They reside
in the collections of the California State Railroad Museum.
The only known recording of a 201 engine of which I am aware of is
off the soundtrack off of the ancient movie SILVER STREAK.
Denny
Denny S. Anspach MD
Sacramento
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