PROJECT: VR HARRIS EMU
NOW AVAILABLE
Image used with permission © Mark Bau
The original Harris sets, introduced from 1956, operated over the Melbourne metro system and were retired by 1988. Sounds include:
1. 1500V DC traction motor hum
2. RVB 3 chime long and short horns
3. Automatic coupler and uncoupler bar
4. Harris sliding guard's and passenger's doors (automated sequence)
5. Sliding windows for those hot summer days...
6. Guard's departure whistle & bell
7. Curve squeal & brake squeal
8. Air brake application and release, Harris air compressor
9. Full lighting control for headlight, route/marker lights and destination boards
10. Cab sounds: 4 position throttle (min power, full series power, full parallel power & overdrive), reverser, pantograph and lighting switches
Horns, whistles, cab sounds are configured depending on direction of travel.
https://www.dccsound.com/product-page/auscision-models-harris-emu-sound-package
PROJECT: VR RAIL TRACTOR
Our updated 2026 project features recordings from 53 RT with the following functions:
1. Original Fordson 4 cylinder engine, with cold and warm start
2. Electric horns
3. Coupler clang and uncouple
4. Cab door
5. Heavy-load, run up in neutral, coast simulation
6. Ratchet handbrake with braking control
7. Shunting mode
8. Cab sounds (reverser)
9. Flange squeal
10. Chain drive
11. Brake squeal
12. Taildisc
Separate projects produced for ESU LokSound 5 and ZIMO MS sound decoders.
