Dumb question…what kind of horn is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_n5HgTIfI
As my video description says, I was photographing this Buffalo & Pittsburgh train next to Lime Lake in Machias, N.Y. but wanted to know the type of horn, so I took this short video clip.
I think it’s a common horn but I’m not real good at identifying them…
There are several train horn collectors with websites - and they have recordings. Google “train horns.”
Hummm. I’m by no means an expert, but I think I’ve heard this same horn out rail-fanning. Might be a K5LLA, the freight version of the popular passenger horn on all Amtrak locomotives. Not 100% sure though. Whatever it is, it sure sounds good!
-Justin
Yeah it does sound good… I woke up to it when I was on vacation in N.Y. since the train came by at about 7:00 AM.
I was looking at these two websites: http://www.dieselairhorns.com/sounds.html http://trainweb.org/mdamtrak199/horns/khorn.html and I think it’s a K3LA (judging by sound), but unfortunately in the pictures I took of this train you can’t see the horn. In my other pics of B&P engines (where you can see the horns) it looks like they have K5H’s.
I don’t know, but pretty similar either way.
Why not e-mail (including the video clip) to Ed K. at dieselairhorns.com and ask him ? He’s a pretty decent guy and not that far away (Wilkes-Barre, PA), so he might well know off the top of his head. If not, then he’s as good as anyone else I know to perhaps ID it by sound alone.
I would say it is a Nathan K5H.