I am having some trouble researching this. Any of you know which whistle was used on the Heavy Mountains used by the C&O? Thanks, in advance, for your replies.
Crandell
Crandell:
Lets see how I can describe a C&O hooter whistle as compared to a N&W hooter- the C&O tones were a bit softer and lower in scale. Now who can provide the tone scales for a mid twenties SP passenger assigned cab forward!
Dave
Thanks, Dave. So, the Heavy Mountains used essentially the same hooter as the Allegheny and not the chime whistle that their 4-8-4 used (as recently as a few years ago on excursions)?
Crandell
Correct. the mountains were duel service. Some speculation exist that the chime whistle on the 614 is not of C&O orgin.
Dave
I do not know if the whistle on the 4-8-2 was the same as that used on the ALCO built H-6 2-6-6-2 of 1920-23. but if you go to www.steam-whistles.com/sounds, there is a recording of a whistle from C&O H-6 #1488. This whistle sounds remarkably similar to the Tsunami Santa Fe freight whistle, which can be heard on the Soundtraxx web-site.
Jim J.
Love that SP 6 chime!
Dave
Get yourself a copy of 2765 on the C&O, my copy is still in video format, it documents NKP-765 disguised and renumbered to reflect a long departed C&O cousin down to the orginal hooter whistle off C&O 2700, if this doesn’t get the blood pulsing, better go railfan some boring dash-somethings!
Dave
AGREED !
Great website thanks for the link…
I remember reading somewhere that back when Chessie was running the Safety Express they were afraid people wouldn’t be able to recognize the train coming because most people had never heard a steam whistle. They had a new whistle made to somewhat sound the same tones/notes that they were using on their diesels at the time. I know the original whistles on the Reading 2101 and C&O 614 definitely didn’t sound like the Chessie whistle. I think the Chessie whistle kinda sucked compared to the originals.
Roger Huber
I have been searching, and managed to find a couple more C&O whistles. Another single chime whistle from a Baldwin H-6 of 1948 can be heard at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWkh02ilF0E , and a 6 chime supposedly removed from F-19 4-6-2 when it was converted by C&O into a streamlined 4-6-4 can be heard at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC1OYYhTXhI . Enjoy!
As I understand it the Fort Wayne guys still have that C&O whistle, they put it on there when it was doing excursions on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad 2 years ago. I watched them install it (at least that’s what I was told from one of their crew)
Sounds like a steam boat whistle or more affectionately “a dieing cow”…