Y6b shrill whistle

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Mike, you must be too young to have heard the real thing.   N&W's mallets
had unique high whistles that echoed up and down the valleys through which
the N&W ran.   They were a beautiful contrast to the deep chime whistles of
Class J and K passenger locomotives. 

 

As I grew up, seventy and eighty years ago, I would lie awake at night
listening to the long-drawn-out whistles from freight trains running up and
down the Scioto River valley in southern Ohio.   N&W's whistles - freight
and passenger - were different yet from those of the B&O that crossed the
N&W in my home town of Chillicothe, Ohio.

 

Bob McKell   

 

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Subject: Y6b shrill whistle

 

I bought a Y6b from Broadway and it has an alternate whistle which I
couldn't stand until I watched Sunday River's N&W Articulate video
again--there it was.  It is very shrill.  Any idea what it is and how it was
used?

Thanks,

Mike Shockley

 

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