It's my dream to one day have a model railroad in it's own room, preferably with another room or an annex with a workbench and storage. But I don't want to have just any layout room. I want an immersive train room, one that acts as a time machine taking people back to the steam era of the Black Hills in South Dakota. There's plenty on the topic of layout visuals, but comparatively little has been said about sound. Lighting, colors, fascia, backdrops, etc... have articles galore, but what about the sounds you'd hear trackside in the modeled area? One thing that I think would add a whole new dynamic of realism for a railroad would be to have ambient sound. The Black Hills of South Dakota, being very rural, would have the ambient sound of creeks and streams, mild winds, birds, insects, grasses waving in the breeze, waterfowl and the rustling of trees. Some sounds, like those created by wind or birds, would be omnipresent, always there no matter where a per...