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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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Posted by SSW9389 on Friday, June 29, 2007 8:10 PM
Sounds like a compressor starting up to me.
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Posted by Railfan1 on Saturday, June 30, 2007 11:19 AM
Yup...
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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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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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