Locomotives

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 8, 2007 6:58 AM

if I remeber correctly what you are hearing is the air compressor kicking in. The whoop is sometimes followed by I guess you could call it a pounding, not really sure what to call it.

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THayman

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From: Halifax, NS
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Posted by THayman on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 8:20 AM

Brilliant subject line by the way...

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Railfan1

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Posted by Railfan1 on Saturday, June 30, 2007 11:19 AM

Yup...

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SSW9389

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From: Shelbyville, Kentucky
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Posted by SSW9389 on Friday, June 29, 2007 8:10 PM

Sounds like a compressor starting up to me.

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mr_conductor07

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Locomotives

Posted by mr_conductor07 on Friday, May 4, 2007 8:05 PM

I also hear that whoop sound on lot of G.E. locomotives especially Amtrak, it's pretty cool!

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