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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by silicon212 [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jhhtrainsplanes Get this, I live close enough to the tracks to hear the train horn during all kinds of weather. Recently a local tree service (hired by the city) has been cutting down trees and limbs from around our power lines and poles. Today I was walking the dog and heard a train horn. It was a nice sounding horn not the usual blan horn that UP buys. I think the nice sounding horn was on a Southern Pacific unit. The nice sounding horn was just as loud as the UP horns but sounds so much better. When I heard the horn I looked in the direction of the tracks and noticed that many of the trees that used to block my view of the tracks were gone or trimmed back greately. I was hopeing to see enough of the engine to varify that it was a S P unit. No such luck. What I did see was the smoke plume and tippy top of the engine but not good enough to get a color of the engine. Reminds me of the ol saying, "Can't see the forrest for the trees". It was a real bummer to be able to see the smoke plume but not the train. I could tell exactly when the lead engine was but couldn't see it. [:(] [:(] [:(] That is my railfan bummer. What is YOURS ? [/quote] I know this is more than two years old, but I didn't see a full answer to your questions here although one did touch on the horns that UP uses nowadays on most stuff - and that's the Nathan/Airchime K3LA - but UP also has a bunch of Leslie S3L Supertyphon horns as well. SP used mostly the Nathan P3 horn and this is perhaps what you referred to. I, too, feel the sound of the P3 was/is the best sounding diesel horn. Late last week I saw a local running a pair of SP GP units - one the unpatched GP40-2M 7135 and the other a patched GP60 # 1919. The 7135 has its original P3 while the 1919 (came with a P3) had its P3 switched for a K3LA. I just don't like those - they're too high pitched. [/quote] Actually I never did get an answer to my burning question. [:(] I was not able to see a color below the top of the engine and at the time I was not able to start a chase of it. However, I did learn that UP was buying some of the better sounding horns. The Heritage units have 5 chime horns and they sound much better than the normal 3 chime they most of the UP units have.
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