Nickel Plate Road 60s era horns

[Anonymous]

Anyone out there experts in Nickel Plate Road? I just purchased my very first 2 rail DC O scale standard gauge locomotive, an Atlas O GP-35, in Nickel Plate Road livery. As a kid I watched thousands of Nickel Plate first and second generation diesels work the mainline across from the school where I attended grades 2 thru 6. I will be installing a Zimo DCC controller and a Soundtraxx Sierra sound system. Soundtraxx offfers the correct EMD 2nd generation diesel sounds, AND several selections in horns..Pyle National, Nathan, Wabco, etc.....I want to select the correct horn that the Nickel Plate actually used. Can anyone please help???? Its been 40 years and even listening to the sound samples, I cannot remember which one is right.

Many Thanks, Jennifer

I will also be posting this over on the General Modeling forum

[Anonymous]

I just 'joined' the Nickel Plate society yesterday evening, filled out the application online and the check is in the mail. I just received a reply from a member there who provided me the following info......Thanks Keith!.....

"The horn on the GP30 and GP35 models was a Leslie model S3L 3-chime horn. I believe all of NKP's road switcher-type units had this same basic chord, although the earlier GP's and RS's had 2 separately-mounted horns, one 2-chime and one single-chime to achieve the
same effect. The Alco Bluebird PA units had Nathan M5 5-chime horns, which were reused on some of the RS36 units they were traded-in on."

Soundtraxx DOES make a sound module in the Sierra line that has the correct diesel and the correct horn....I'm all set !

Jennifer

[underworld]

Hello Jennifer,
I don't know but since you joined the Society they should be able to help you.
Are you aware of the museum in Bellvue, Ohio????? Here's a link to their website. www.onebellevue.com/madriver/

Good luck!

underworld

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[Anonymous]

I have not been back in Ohio since 1965. That museum is one more stop to make on a long trip my husband and I make someday. I lived near the east-west mainline west of Cleveland and East of Lorain. As a young kid I missed the last of the steam, but DID see the first and second generation diesels on the NKP. We moved away from there after the shiny new GP35s showed up. They looked so much 'newer' than the high hood GP-9s. I hope to build up an O-scale GP-9 in NKP too someday. The amount of interchange and transfer traffic on the NKP was substancial. I remember counting how many differnt railroads cars were in any given train. There were a LOT of eastern roads in the late 50s and 60s, and everyone of them had cars show up on the NKP...... even plenty of western roads. In putting together a NKP 'train' you could have every car type and a huge variety of roads. Fun stuff! A lot of us O scalers collect and run 'trains', for the pleasure of watching them go by... not as many of us are operators doing switching and working way-freight operations Either way, the industrial operations served by the region wide NKP , and the huge interchange traffic with all the connecting roads, would make the NKP a steam or diesel era modelers delight.