Western Railroad Discussion > 24/7 Ambient Sound Stream Trains Weather & Nature ok after storms

Happy to report our server location in LaSalle, Illinois had NO power outages from the recent band of storms that swept across the upper midwest.

6 years ago I started this project of capturing audio of busy double track Class 1 railroading in rural Northern Illinois, editing out any objectionable noise and streaming it as a sleep aid, background sounds for work and club layouts/hobby stores or simply to relive being in the old family home near the tracks. With some professional radio broadcast software managing the stereo audio files, I never repeat a sequence of grade crossing and ambient weather/nature sounds. All play simultaneosly and with the addition of thunderstorms and seasonal Illinois wildlife sounds (crickets, cicadas, peep toads) at random. The recordings are made from the same physical location with a battery powered digital recorder that normally gets 8 to 10 hours of sound at a time. The result is hundreds of hours of archived audio. Not a scannner feed, or audio from a web cam site, but the effort is made to get the highest quality possible, in stereo and with slight editing and leveling compression. Location is an abandoned farm near 3 crossings and within earshot of the Princeton, Illinois Amtrak stop.

Here is the direct link to the tunein dot com link- https://tunein.com/radio/A-Place-By-The-Tracks-s266757/

And a webpage with a server link and more info- https://aplacebythetracks.webs.com/

The audio stream runs 24/7...

Mark Baker
La Salle, IL
Historic ROWs trace w/ USDA Aerials



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/20 11:33 by MWBaker.

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