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- From: romeo@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Michael Stimac)
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- Subject: Re: Air whistles (was Scaring away meese)
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 19:29:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.070123.8912@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> zephyr@cory.Berkeley.EDU (COIFMAN) writes:
- >
- > At least one disel railway had whistles instead of horns. When absorbed
- >into the Soo Line, all of the locomotives on the Minneapolis Northfield
- >and Southern had air whistles. As the engines were absorbed and
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- And some steam locomotives had air horns. I'll leave it as an
- exercise for the net to provide a list of such steam locos.
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- Michael Stimac
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