The PRR had them on all their freight locos until about the 1940s when they started switching them over to 3 chimes off the passenger locos. This whistle isnt quite the way they would have sounded in operations, its being way over blown. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pSjh2haBWdU.htmlsi=jkYf6UWwtsNtF-9N This is an H10 still equipped with its banshee whistle in 1957. Its not any less creepy, if you think about hearing it for the first time on some cold autumn night in the mountains...
Would of sounded just as high pitched if not higher. Often times with higher boiler pressure it'd cause the banshee to literally go crazy and possibly break under the pressure. That's why some engines like the I1s and L1s sometimes swapped banshees for 3 chimes cause their boilers would cause them to literally go haywire compared to the 3 chimes that could take more pressure
Oh yes it can with the right engine. This kind of "Scream" was common on L1s and I1s cause their higher boiler pressure caused the banshee to go NUTS! Smaller engines like on the B6 were still high pitched but NOTHING like this! Sounds like a child screaming bloody murder. Some L1s and I1s even had their banshees replaced with 3 chimes because... well yea
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren Right, well this is from a PRR H3 class which were rated at 150psi boiler pressure which is much lower than the I1 or L1 classes which had boiler pressures of 250 and 205 psi respectively. I suspect they took a H3 banshee and sent a much higher than normal psi air through it, which made it sound all distorted. Also Im sure there were many variations of banshee whistles made over the years, this one being a rather early rendition. regardless, this is a much higher pitched whistle than anything Ive heard....likely due to the whistle being blown at a much higher psi than it was designed for (again on an H3, would be 150psi). If this is a real clip at all. Sounds distorted to me.
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren furthermore, theres like three other clips of the "PRR H3" whistle on youtube, which are all identical sound files from the same recording. None of them site any source or provide any sort of information on where the clip is from. they just all claim its an H3, and seemingly just copied each other.
