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- From: jwj2@po.CWRU.Edu (Jermaster)
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- Subject: Re: Air whistles (was Scaring away meese)
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 23:47:47 GMT
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- In article <1e6kasINN866@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema) writes:
-
- > New Haven's FL9's were built with air whistles too. I can't remember the
- >name of the company who made them (somebody Railway Supply Co.), but they look
- >like the same type of whistle as on the MNS engines. I think Amtrak replaced
- >the air whistles with standard "honkers" on their FL9's, but I don't know
- >about Metro North. The record _First Generation Diesels, Volume II_ has
- >two recordings of NH's FL9's, and the air whistle is certainly a lot nicer
- >sounding than the one or two chime "moose calls" on other F's. Somehow, I doubt
- >that NH had problems with meese anyway, but...
-
- The NH air whistles were known as Hancock Air Whistles. I'm pretty sure they
- were standard equipment on most all New Haven locomotives (with exception
- of their ex-Virginian E33's, which still had their originial horns on all
- the pictures I've seen).
-
- Later,
- -Jer
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