Strassburg 4-8-0

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Depends on what era you're interested in modeling.  The single note whistle that 475 usually carries (Strasburg used several different whistles on 475 over the years) is probably similar to the early N&W freight whistle.  However, in later operations after WW2 (??), a longer bell single note whistle was used on all N&W freight locomotives.  This is the so-called "hooter" whistle, and was originally the N&W's passenger whistle.  It's lower pitched and much louder than the one now on 475.

Dave Stephenson

--- On Tue, 9/14/10, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


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> Does anyone know if the whistle on 475 at Strassburg is

> correct for when she traveled the N&W?  I am close

> to finishing a model and am looking for a sound system dcc

> decoder to put in my model and am using the utube videos as

> a reference.

> Tom Lewis

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