When I was a kid growing up in NZ, one of my chores was to put the milk bottles out by the gate each night for the night milkman to replace with full bottles of milk. I used to rush back inside because of the eerie noises from the steam trains in the shunting yards. Sort of like "Sound effects" on "War of the Worlds" soundtrack. Terrifying as a kid!
Awesome sound of those locos. The engineers need to let the people know the weight and power of those historical steamers they have in their hands with the whistle. You guys need to use the "Clear The Track" warning with two looongs a short and another slow gradual pull for a loooooooong. Let your country side know your coming and they will never forget that beautiful sound of the train whistles for generations to come!!
I'm from the US so I'm used to deep whistle tones and 'Long long short long' for railroad crossings rather than the 'Long short' seen here. Still an awesome video!
I drive electric trains in Auckland, New Zealand. Basically we don’t have to blow the horn unless we have to. We can go all day and not use it. This American practice of long, long, short, long over every crossing must get real annoying for people nearby, especially if you have multiple crossings in a town. Still, I suppose you would get sued if you didn’t blow the whistle in the states.
@@bigkiwimike back in the days of steam it was possible to tell who was driving the train based on how the whistle sounded, sort of like a musical instrument. Plus our train whistles have a deeper pitch to them than the more high-pitched ones in the UK, so they maybe sound more appealing. There are “quiet zones” at grade crossings in many cities and suburbs where trains don’t sound their horns due to the noise.
New Zealand steam locos look so much better than British locos of a corresponding age far more modern for example NZ had automated couplers in 1908 no man crushing buffers
Was unaware that outside a couple of Climaxes on static display that New Zealand had any steam locomotives. Didn’t t they bulldozer dozens of them into rivers ???
