Does anybody know what kind of horn is on the UP 5858, I shot footage of the train as it rolled into the yard at a grain facility in Kalama, Washington.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsSrWHyp30Q&feature=channel_video_title
Was it tarped?
Cause the blowing trash blocked the lens![:'(] [sigh]
Can’t speak to the kind of Air Horn, but over time the UPRR has had some pretty weird audio emissions from some of their locomotives.
Back years ago they tried sirens and even electronic sirens on some of their power; The thought being to warn the MOW gangs when a train was passing their work site, and eventually those installations were move to the 6900 series engines.
Check UTAH Rails web site for info on this and other strange appliances for Diesel power[:^)]
Sounds like about all the other U.P. horns I hear around here. You might do a web search for Diesel Horns as I believe there are some sites devoted to them and have recordings of the various brands/styles that you might be able to tell by ear what kind this one is.
I have a very poor recording of a badly missadjusted U.P. horn I accidently recorded one day while I was out watching trains. I was using a small toy digital recorder to let me speak the engine number as the train was passing so I could spend the time WATCHING the train and write it down later (I found I could not remember the numbers after watching the train go by and I was missing seeing the train if I took the time to write it down at the moment).
I cannot tell you the number of the engine because I was laughing so hard at the sound I forgot to speak the number and only got the sound of the horn. The recording is not very good because the toy recorder had NO “fidelity”. The horn was a multi-chime type and each one sounded at a different air pressure and did a sort of “WOW-WOW” sound as the engineer pulled the valve open. I think the engineer saw me laughing and so played with the horn cord after he was across the grade crossing.
The tonal quality of it was very similar to that South African air horn (Vuvuzela) that were so obnoxious it was threatened to ban them from the World Cup Soccer matches.
Where we are ( about a quarter mile away from the BNSF T-con) you get to hear a whole variety of horn noise. The South or Wesbounds use the Eastern-most track ( headed towards Wellington,Ks.) and the East bounds/North bounds ( headed towards the Jct at Mulvane,Ks.). [:-^]
Anyway, when a SB train is passing an EB train, and they(EB) is blowing it horn; because of the gaps between the double stacks it creates a sound like almost a ‘warble’ ( or some critter being choked to death!). Within about two miles of a perpendicular from our house, North(East) and South(West) there are about 8 crossings that are blown for, and track speed is pretty high through here, so you get some hellish, awful racket at times when a couple of trains are passing. But there are times when the sound is almost melodic, and very pleasant. [8D]
Not to mention it almost seems, at times, that you can tell a unit with a desktop horn control versus one with a pull… The Engineer’s techinque, or lack of it becomes very apparent![sigh]
Sounds like a K3L.