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Train Whistle
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 17, 2004 4:46 PM
Does anyone have a indepth diagram and take down diagram of any train whistle?
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 17, 2004 9:11 PM
No mate I'm sorry i don't. i'm not even sure what you mean.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 18, 2004 12:47 PM
No one has ever seen a link on a 3 chime steam whistle?
Or does any one have one?
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Posted by SandyR on Monday, October 18, 2004 4:02 PM
Bluebonnet, while this isn't a plan, it is a cutaway view of an actual whistle:
http://www.whistleman.com/html/how_whistles_work.html
I'll keep looking...This turned up on Google when I searched: three chime steam whistle plans.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 18, 2004 4:35 PM
Most Train signal-wistles I've heard here in South Texas are in the G chord, save for the Mexican Locomotives that are F to Fmin chords.

G-C-F# -American

F-A-C or F-A Flat-C
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 18, 2004 4:56 PM
Sandy,

Seen it but a no go [V] sadly... Thank you for the link.

Well Capt. I am tryn to make one out of PVC pipe.
I know you can do it cause I seen several but the man will not let off his drawings cause he sells them on ePay. He normaly starts them off at 1.00 and then they run up to 100.00s of dollars. Just for PVC and black paint and some mesurments + the brass topper and the hoock up.

To heck with it [:(!]
Greedy people make me SICK!
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 18, 2004 5:08 PM
BB71, I kew you were up to something[:-,] What are you going to do with it when it's made?

Greedy People do suck!
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 18, 2004 5:16 PM
Well I think everything has clamed down bit here.
So I would have it for open houses.
Besides I go to work at 4:30 am and is away for me to let my buddy across the street know I am going to work also [:-,]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 9:39 AM
2 weeks in search now [:D]
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Posted by SandyR on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:08 AM
Bluebonnet, how about buying one of those wooden train whistles and carefully cutting it apart to see how the 'working end' is made? I know that the problem would come in building a regular steam-type whistle with the 'bowl' at the bottom. Without a set of drawings to work from, there's no way to know how it is constructed.
But the wooden whistles seem to use a different system, which would certainly lend itself to being replicated in something PVC-compatible.
And those wooden whistles usually sell for around $4.95, so it wouldn't be an extravagance. I think Schrader's has them in their catalog.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:23 AM
Sandy

You know I was picthing that idea around in my head and thinking of sizing it up!

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