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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 11:58 AM

selector

Nice!  I have felt like having a small boiler and getting the neighbourhood onto its hind legs in the morning with a two or three chime steam whistle.  After some tea and a PB&J sandwich, that feeling goes away. Thankfully. Laugh

 

A local fire department (located on the St Lawrence River) has a boat whistle they use as part of their alerting.  It used to have a real "Rube Goldberg" timing mechanism that sped up as it ran.  Interesting to watch.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 8:19 PM

Electroliner 1935

This reminded me of this video. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnr6uGIV8no

 

He would need very serious hearing protection,  Thanks but no thannks here.

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Posted by selector on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 5:39 PM

Nice!  I have felt like having a small boiler and getting the neighbourhood onto its hind legs in the morning with a two or three chime steam whistle.  After some tea and a PB&J sandwich, that feeling goes away. Thankfully. Laugh

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 4:39 PM

This reminded me of this video. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnr6uGIV8no

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Steam Horns
Posted by selector on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 12:52 PM

This is a bit aside from normal conversation here, but I was enjoying a video review of Rapido's newest HO model, an Icon of Canadian Steam, the Royal Hudson 4-6-4.  I read of Bob Swanson's newer whistle on CP's 2816, and then did a search.  I enjoyed this video, and you might as well.  A Canadian engineer, Bob designed steam horns for ships and other applications.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bob+swanson+steam+whistle&view=detail&mid=99318FAFACAD10A7EA5099318FAFACAD10A7EA50&FORM=VIRE

 

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