• Sandy Carroll Doors Closing Announcements

  • Discussion related to DC area passenger rail services from Northern Virginia to Baltimore, MD. Includes Light Rail and Baltimore Subway.
Discussion related to DC area passenger rail services from Northern Virginia to Baltimore, MD. Includes Light Rail and Baltimore Subway.

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  by dc52687
 
Does anyone know where I can find a recording of the old Sandy Carroll doors closing announcements? I've tried searching through YouTube and Google, but have come up with nothing so far. Any help is appreciated!
  by SchuminWeb
 
I have recordings of both versions of the announcements. They're not "clean" like the ones that we have of the Randi Miller chimes, i.e. these were recorded on a train.

Here's the 5000-Series version, open/close:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2xMufFah-w

Rohr/Breda version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9JtYWxJAZE (open)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLC-dw0cKN4 (close)

I believe I can find better versions of these recordings if I go mining through all of my recordings, but those ought to get you going for now.
  by Matt_S
 
If you're on the system try and find car 3003, was on that today and was surprised to hear the 5k version still playing on this car (which is a 3k)!

Was working Yellow Line today and can be found on the green line as well.

Anyone know why? I'm assuming its post rehab?

Matt
  by SchuminWeb
 
When the Bredas came back from rehab, they were given the version of the door chime that first appeared on the 5000-Series cars. Makes sense, considering that the newer announcement was slightly improved over the original.

As for 3003, I'm surprised to hear that the old chimes are still alive and well. Metro missed a lot of cars, but now, four years after the change, it's surprising that there are still cars where they've missed changing the chime. Since they did the rehab roughly in numerical order, one would think that this car would have been part of the original change-over, and not a later job (as I understand it, the chimes on the rehabs and the 6000's were set to the second version of Sandy Carroll at the factory, and had to be changed to Randi Miller by WMATA once the cars arrived on the property). Weird that the chime had been missed for this long.