What makes a gimmick?

There was also the "steam sound" that Triang-Hornby built into the B12 (possibly other locomotives as well). The sound was made by - if I remember correctly - two pieces of glass paper/sand paper under neath the tender. One was fixed to the body, the other to one of the axles and as the latter went round it made a reasonably realistic sound (for the time, early

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David Costigan
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You could always substitute a dodgy light bulb :o)

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I've listened to some electronic sound effects generators that were no more realistic than you describe.

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