Strasburg 4-8-0

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IMO yes, but I'm going by photos and recordings.  There are others here who actually saw and heard the M's.

Dave Stephenson

--- On Thu, 9/16/10, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> Subject: Re: Strassburg 4-8-0

> To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 8:41 AM



> Would the whistle from the A and Y6b

> then also be correct for the M in the 50s?

> 

> Tom Lewis

> 

> On Sep 14, 2010, at 4:59 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> wrote:

> 

> > 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:

> > 

> >> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> >> Subject: Strassburg 4-8-0

> >> To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> >> Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 2:56 PM

> >> 

> >> 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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