http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJISp-P8Vac This is not my video, but the comment below the video says it’s a new K5HL.
Didn’t sound out of the ordinary to me. Definitely Doppler shift there.
On the other hand, I once saw a chain flailing around off the side of a flatcar that would have taken that guy out, and his camera.
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Curiousity: what’s your screen name mean or where is it from (wrawroacx) For the life of me I can’t figure it out.
…My thoughts too {as Larry’s}, such as…If that camera was being held by a human…that was a very dangerous place to be…I’m thinking of maybe a pieces of spring steel tape used to hold items together came loose, that could do fatal damage to a perosn. Liked the recording, but be careful. Be safe.
If you want to know what it means. Go back to my profile and below the title About Tom is a description. At the very bottom of the description is what wrawroacx stands for. Hope this helps.
…Keeping in “tune” with train horns: The NS line {Frankfort line}, passes just about a mile north of us, thru the little community of Camack, and we hear on occasion, an engine / horn passing thru that sounds totally different than most…The blended tones produce a somewhat different sound…Difficult to describe. Perhaps, tones that aren’t as compatible as one is used to…or think they should be.
Not being an air horn aficionado as some folks who are into horns or bird calls. I could never understand how someone could stand at the vicinity of a trackside location and tell everyone what the particular horn mode was, who made it, and wether it was inpitch or not![bow]
I am partially deaf( too many years of driving trucks with loud mufflers and no A/C) so about all I can tell is if I am about to get run over or get out of the way![%-)] Living here I do within a moderate distance to about 6 railroad crossings, I have simply put become a ‘Horn Critic’ more apporeciative of the Engineer;s horn handling technique as pertains to the time of day.
Late at night when two guys who seem to know each other (or are trying to wakup or scare the socks of the other Engineer) meet, and have been blowing their own code of recognition for the previous two and a half miles, including the mandatory excercises at each crossing. I am very much LESS appreciative of their particular air horn or klaxon horn or nose, depending upon what they are choosing to blow. Two AM is not the time for air horn appreciation 101![:-,]
And then there is the circumstance of individual quality of their particular instrument they have on their assigned loci=omotive. There is the Pro who plays his horn crisp and clear, whos’s particular horn is in good working order. Then there is the Engineer who has been gifted with a unit whose horn is muted,either by being packed with all manner of flying bugs, or the last Engineer who had it cured his headache by packing a Kotex into the horn’s throat.[}:)]
AIR HORNS! You either love [bow] them, or Hate’em. [tdn][tdn][tdn] [2c]
Ditto - I couldn’t tell you if it was a three-chime or a five-chime most of the time.
But the various horns (and even the various railroads) have specific tunings, which is why I can sometimes tell whether it’s a CSX or a CN engine in the lead of trains through my area.
That said, with the merging of railroads, run-through power, and leasers, the “family” aspect of horns on particular railroads has largely gone by the wayside, IMHO.
I would like to know what kind of horn is heard at the end of the Beach Boys’ “Caroline, No.” Given the band’s southern California origins, I’m guessing it’s either SP or ATSF, with the recording possibly being made in the mid-sixties.
Western/Eastern Railroads At Western Railways of America Connection Xtreme.
Aren’t you missing an E? [:P]
I always figured it was a character out of a Dr. Suess book. [:)]
I never got to the point of hearing the horn… that rausious background (?) “Music” (bletche!) turned me off and so I shut the video off after less than 10 seconds. Why do people have to add NOISE to a video is beyond me!
A lot of YouTube railfans seem to like “competing” with each other, and so they all make, what they think, are intense/interesting video openings, that usually become too long, overdone and flat-out obnoxious. I make a point to skip passed these introductions and get on with the video. That concludes my mild-mannered rant.
Now then, on to the real question at hand - That horn sounds like a generic Nathan K3L, which is used on Canadian National and Canadian Pacific locomotives. Some would say it’s “Canadian” tuned/accented. I personally like these horns. The only American locomotives that they’re generally used on are the Heritage I series BNSF C44-9W’s. How this horn ended up on a Union Pacific GEVO is beyond me.
And no, the K3L is not a new horn. Some examples of new horns would be Nathan K5HL’s, Nathan K5HLL’s, Nathan K5LLA’s and Third Generation K5LA’s, all of which sound disgusting in my opinion…
Rich, I say they sound cool only at high speeds or really close to a person. Two of my favorite Horns are Leslie’s and P5’s / P3’s.