[CBQ] Re: Doodlebug Motors?

["kistler.richard" <rckistler@windstream.net>]

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson Moyer" <ku0a@...> wrote:
>
> I'd like to put sound decoders in my doodlebugs, and the only sound file
> I've found that's supposed to be for a doodlebug is a recording of a Rolls
> Royce 250 hp 8 cylinder motor from QSI. QSI doesn't specify whether the
> motor is gas or diesel, but I would guess it's a gasoline motor.
> 
>  
> 
> The doodlebugs I'm interested in modeling are 9529, 9816, 9841 and 9849. All
> were built by Pullman-EMD with EMD 6 cylinder 275 hp engines. 9816, 9841 and
> 9849 were all rebuilt with diesel engines in the early 1050s, so either
> gas-electric or diesel-electric sounds would be appropriate for circa 1950.
> My questions are what diesel engines were used for the rebuilds (presumably
> EMD), what horsepower were they, and how would they sound relative to a
> Rolls Royce 250 hp 8 cylinder motor? Unfortunately, it's not possible to
> listen to the QSI doodlebug sound file online, but you can listen to it if
> you download the Q2Upgrade program and the sound file from the QSI Solutions
> web site, then load the sound file into Q2Upgrade and play it. The sound
> file has 10 notches that sound like a quiet diesel-electric in operation.
> Having never heard a Q doodlebug, I have no idea how authentic the sounds
> are.
> 
>  
> 
> Nelson
>
Nelson - Motors 9841and 9849 with the 275 hp diesel engines ran very quite,with 
an exhaust sound similar to a high powered heavy weight car such as a Chrysler, 
Buick or Caddy of the 1950's - 1960s, very much different than the 400 hp 
motors on 9767, 9770 etc. Richard



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