Yes, it is an original. In answer to your query, here is how I did it: Every morning at my local station, a freight train pulls out of a siding with about 5 or 6 wagons. Before pulling out they have to sound their horn to let the linesmen know that a train is moving their way. Quite a simple process really, just record the sound of the real thing. The sounds for the FeeCo trains are taken from real life steam locomotives (they might be steam, although it is quite possible that it may be one of the older US EMD class trains (they have quite a "chug chug" sound to their engines), probably the pioneering Challenger (The mother of the Big Boy class, the worlds largest steam locomotive). The sound of the wagons on the real game are what freight cars sound like when they are moving past at really high speeds, it only makes that sound however, when the freight cars are quite small, so tanker wagons etc.
Once I had the recording of the train leaving the siding on my PC, it was simply a matter of producing some ambient music. This stuff is mostly a combination of echo filters and random gregorian chanting loops and some strange FX noises on top.
Anyway, I don't want to go on otherwise I would just be baffling you with producer talk (sequences, bars, beats, hits, loops, samples, dithering etc.).
By the way, I do know about the fact that there is only one song available to listen to on that site, I am in the process of finding out why the other one hasn't appeared yet.
Thanks for the feedback though, this stuff is only the tip of the iceburg, plenty more to come!
Reese.
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