Weird Noise coming from steam locomotive

[Trainzguy101]

Hello, I am somewhat new to Open Rails, I've had it for a few months already, and I've noticed a strange sound coming from several steam locomotives, such as the 844 here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQWaXfLfgbo&feature=youtu.be

Is this normal? If so is there a way to "turn it off"? Its starting to annoy me a little bit, if there is that would be great!

[baldwin]

It is a sound that annoys me as well, but I have not taken the time to work out which one it is. To remove it you need to workout which sound/s are involved then take a silent.wav and rename to match the sound you want to replace, then just move into the locomotive sound folder.

[OTTODAD]

I don't seem to have steam locos which have that irritating sound.

What annoys me more is that their chuffs are not synchronized with the rotation of the locos wheels and do not account for some locos like the Big-Boy having 2 sets of driving wheels !

[farrmp]

Ok, this is going to be a little technical and hard to explain but here goes. What you are hearing is the Steam Ejector putting water into the boiler.
Many of the .WAV sound files used in MSTS were not correctly looped when originally created years ago but they worked fine in MSTS. Open Rails
uses something called OpenAL to play all the sounds heard. So instead of hearing the steady wosh sound of water going into the boiler, you hear
the whole x_injector.WAV playing from start the end over and over and over till you can take it no longer. As Baldwin says, a silent.WAV Renamed
and used to replace injector.WAV and x_injector.WAV in the Sound Folder for that Engine will at least eliminate that annoying sound.
Now the REAL solution is to take any .WAV file that is not looped correctly into a Sound Editor like Goldwave (Free) and insert real Loop Points like they
explain in the Sound Editor documentation. This makes OpenAL happy and I get to hear water going into the boiler when it needs some.
Hope this helps. . .

Paul

[Trainzguy101]

I just replaced the injector noise with a silent.wav file. Thanks for the tip though