The NKP Berkshire 705’s brass whistle is my favourite of the bunch. It’s so soothing and nostalgic sounding. Same could be said with SP 4450’s whistle as well, in fact.
Agree 100% Like a banshee's scream! Can you imagine if you were a youngster about 4 years old... your visiting your grandparents that live out in the moutains... you're in bed... youre bedroom window is open to let the cool night air in... and that thing starts screaming??
@@laming2006 That's why they were nicknamed "Banshee Screamers" by Pennsy fans. That H3 is a particularly shrill one. The one before it, from the H10 was a more common example of the PRR "Banshee" freight whistle. The J1 2-10-4s were the first freight engines delivered with the passenger style 3 chime. The I1 Decs began life with "Banshees" but received hand-me-down 3 chimes from retired passenger power during shopping later in their careers. Earlier freight power such as the Consolidations and the L1 Mikados had "Banshees" till the end.
My Favorite whistles of this video B&O 3 chime 21:54 Southern TS class flattop 3 chime from (#1466) fitted on shay (#4) (2 Recordings) 15:01 PRR 3 chime from I1 Class (#4225) 1:07 PRR J1 3 chime 2:06 B&M 5 chime 32:58 SP 6 chime from SP Daylight (#4450) 33:45 RDG I10 Class 6 Inch hooter 7:50 IC tall 3-note chime whistle from a random steamboat 41:27
After listening to these for many years it's become clear to me that each Engineer developed his own "signature" way of sounding the whistles. Do you agree? (My grandpop was a train engineer for Reading and you could always tell just by the way he handled the whistles that it was him approaching.)
Speaking of the B&O 6, A cass worker told me that Shay 6 AKA Big 6 had a B&O 6 chime when she first arrived to the railroad, so that B&O 6 in the recording came from Shay 6
Jordan, I’m curious to see where these audios of the whistles came from, I would like to see if there is any actual footage of these whistles in action so please let me know if you find any footage on these whistles. Thanks!
I don’t know why, but the Southern Railway Ts class whistle at 15:01 and 16:32 makes me feel nostalgic. Maybe it’s because at my grandparents’ house, we were less than a mile from the railroad tracks, and I would always hear the whistles from the excursion locomotives. This was during the later years of the Southern Railway’s steam program.
You say that now, but If you were five or six years old in a cold bedroom at 3:AM at night during the 1930's depression era and having to hear these forlorn train whistles in the distance you most certainly wouldn't remember them in the fond way as you presently do. As a child and hearing these things in the cold nights was always terrifying.
I would. As an avid railroad enthusiast who likes the sound of high pitched short-bell 3 chimes, I would still love the sound of Princeton 3 chime whistles.
@@T128Productions I’ve observed both B&O 3 chimes and Southern Railway freight and mixed traffic whistles (both versions) side by side. The B&O seems to have a similar design to the mixed traffic southern 3 chimes. The mixed traffic SR 3 chimes were built in Lenoir City, Tennessee, and were taller and had a bit of a deeper sound than the freight service models, which were built in Princeton Indiana. 4501’s freight service 3 chime was heavily modified to sound more like a SOU mixed traffic whistle.
The B&O 6 chime I remember from 1955 and '56 in Defiance , Ohio. Extras East and Westbound through Defiance, Local 102 out of Garette , Indiana bound for Pittsburg, PA., probably on Q3, Q4b 2-8-2's. Don't remember seeing 4-8-2 T3's though. Rode behind P- class Pacifics between Tiffin, OH and Defiance in 1955, '56, '57, though.
WHISTLES PRR 3-chime from a K4: 0:12 PRR 3-chime from I1 #4225: 1:07 PRR 3-chime from a J1: 2:06 PRR 3-chime from a J1: 3:03 PRR 3-chime from a D16: 4:00 PRR banshee from B6 #4090: 5:05 PRR banshee from a H10: 5:41 PRR banshee from a H3: 6:49 RDG banshee from a I10: 7:50 RDG 6-chime from a G1: 8:33 N&W Y6 short bell hooter: 9:18 N&W M-Class 8-inch hooter: 10:18 N&W Y6 brass hooter: 11:35 SOU Roundtop bootleg 8-inch hooter: 12:43 SOU flat top bootleg hooter: 13:52 SOU long bell 3-chime from TS class #1466 : 15:01 SOU 3-chime freight whistle: 17:43 SOU top-lever 5-chime: 18:55 B&O 6-chime: 20:14 B&O 3-chime: 21:54 C&O banshee from G6 #390: 23:43 C&O 6-chime from F19 Pacific #490: 24:46 C&O long bell 3-chime from J3 #603: 26:02 C&O Old Crosby: 26:55 WM flat top 3-chime: 28:11 WM Hancock long bell 3-chime from #1411: 29:09 UP short 5-chime: 30:35 B&M 6-chime: 31:55 B&M 5-chime: 32:58 SP 6-chime from #4450: 33:45 NKP 6-chime from a Berkshire: 35:07 NKP brass 6-chime from Berkshire #705: 36:23 CN 5-chime: 37:48 DMIR long bell 3-chime from Yellowstone #228: 38:59 IC tall 3-chime steamboat whistle: 41:27 IC cut-down 6-chime: 42:14 Dierks Lumber Co. 5-inch 3-chime: 43:49
I1’s came built with the PRR Banshee (single chime) as it was their standard freight whistle. After modernization Post-WWII, many I1’s and a few other freight class engines received the PRR 3 chime from retired passenger engines. The 3 chime was Pennsy’s standard passenger whistle. Thus, there’s some crossover.
Sent my last post b4 I wanted to. I was going to say my mom lived just afew blocks from the PRR Ft Wayne Div when she was young. Would've been something to have laid in bed night's and listened to those beautiful chime whistles floatin in on the breeze!
You know that's really funny the whistle on the very end closest to the engine that is all steel that's the first wish I ever built when I was in machine shop that was around 2013 I'm 27 now and still have the whistle and it sounds good
