FYI.
CP 1238.https://waterloocentralrailway.com/equipment/cpr1238/
Thank You.
NDGSome NYC had Air Whistles.
We ran a Hancock on our locomotive in Lake Placid service for a number of years. Used mostly in the villages, until FRA said it wasn't loud enough.
One of the first days using the horn instead of the air whistle (it had both) a mother brought her young daughter trackside to watch the train go by, as they did almost every day. Wasn't happy when the horn scared the daylights out of her daughter.
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Thendara is a LOVELY Place!!
NYC Power was eclectic.
Many of their RS3s had a MR on top of hood ahead of Cab.
Some NYC had Air Whistles.
c. 1950 We went to NYC on NYC. Still Steam.
First DSG explained so much to young inquiring minds as most of contents rapidly disappering.
Lots to see. Most of it gone.
That would be the SW1 that is now numbered NYC 705. I've run her a number of times.
NYC 8223 actually has two "honkers," one on each end of the cab. Just pull the rope for the direction you're travelling. Hopefully some legal issues will be resolved soon and the old girl will be back in service.
It was asked as to which areas were affected.
Now we know more.
A story.
Ran the LV EMC Switcher out of Thendara for a day aeons ago.
The Central RS3 was there, but not in use yet.
Acquired a Westinghouse Single Note horn from Scrap.
Possibly from c. 1950 CPR F or MLW Unit then to Spreader c. 1952.
A few early CPR GP-7s had Honker Horns on side short hood.
When CPR decided on Standard 3-note Horns, the Single Note Honkers Cascaded down to MoW Equipments such as Plows and Spreaders which were not Horned prior.
The Horn was destined for the Central RS3 at Thendara I was told.
Horn of type as shown here.
http://www.trainweb.org/cprdieselroster/Roster%20Archive/CP%204000/CP%204016-1.htm
NDG Having Difficulties accessing Trains Forum the last few days.
Having Difficulties accessing Trains Forum the last few days.
As have we all. See the "504" thread.
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
A few photos of 8554 being cut up are in the next post. The two others await their turn.
NDG Incredible. FYI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRMeNMJatpw Thank You.
The S word written in microscopic print.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
I have an app on all of my computers that pulls time from a variety of sources (but not GPS) to keep my computers within milliseconds of the actual time.
This became necessary when I started using my laptop for digital amateur radio contacts (JT65) as the transmit and receive signals are time sensitive. I eventually put the app on all of my computers.
OTOH, I bought a "heads up" speedometer for my truck that pulls in GPS to compute my speed, and it displays GPS time as well. Pretty cool, actually. Shows my direction of travel, but only to the cardinal and ordinal points.
A trunked radio system I administered included a GPS antenna for system time.
Heartbreaking, in a way, even if the reasons for it are completely sensible. It could have been retained, like the speaking clock, for its nostalgia value -- how much airtime or spectrum bandwidth did it use?
Admittedly, even after all these years, I'm still a bit upset that the time signal injected into the GPS system 'for everyone to use free' represents a far better continuous time reference than anything previously available to railroad time services. (In fact I still think it's amazing that the time signal has to be corrected both for relativity and the effects of lower gravity... and that the corrections are in opposite directions!)
I spent a great deal of time and trouble designing a spring-wound railroad watch that would be precise to within 5 seconds a year. Guess what? Don't need it any more (at least if I can see the sky with my $2.42 32-channel GPS core that runs on millivolts and microamps...)
O.T.
Might be of Interest.
FWIW.
Did they ever track down the kimberlite pipe in Cobalt that the enormous diamond came from?
The magic of physics. Kinda like air conditioning railroad cars using steam.
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