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 Prototype Info forum

[Anonymous]

Maybe these pepole could help:
http://www.nkphts.org/

[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."