[milwaukee-electric] Re: Car 1141

[Scott Greig]

L4 has its correct horns again.  Take it from me...ya don't wanna be standing in front of 'em when they go off!!!  (WHAAAAAT??????)
 
That horn on the 415 (and 277) is a Strombos truck horn.  Yes, they're blah.  (Ironically, the 233 and 277 had a single-bell version of the TM horn (AC-1, I think it was; TM's were AAC-1s) for many years.
 
One of the horn types used by the North Shore (AA-2) is very similar to the TM's horns, albeit with straight cast bells.  They can sound very, very good.
--- On Wed, 11/18/09, Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com> wrote:


From: Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Car 1141
To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 3:39 PM


I remember the earliest TWERHS days at East Troy. The 757, 763 and L-4 had 
them. They really rang through the countryside. I would have loved to have 
heard a set on a train passing at 60-70 mph.

The 757 & 763 eventually received proper horns.

Worst sounding? The single horn on IRM's IT suburban car. I believe some of 
the SSL's 1980s cars initially had some wimpy sounding horns, too.

Some guy in town has a Nathan five chime set mounted in the bed of an F-250. 
He's not a railfan, just a regular sort of nut. ;-)

K.




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From: "Scott Greig" <sbgreig_m1 at yahoo.com>
To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:24 PM
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Car 1141


>A lot of those air horns disappeared off the 1100s in the Speedrail era to 
>put on the lightweight cars. They needed fifteen for the 1030s and another 
>six for the curvesiders, and since Maeder had neither pot nor window, where 
>else would they get 'em from?
> --- On Wed, 11/18/09, Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>
> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Car 1141
> To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 3:16 PM
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> Looks like somebody got a nice set of air horns as a souvenir.
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> I'd like a set of those. They have a really nice sound.
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> K.
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> From: "Scott Greig" <sbgreig_m1 at yahoo.com>
> To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:24 PM
> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Car 1141
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>>I think that was taken "post-fantrip".
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>> (I heard the story from Paul himself. Even better than Nedden's version!)
>> --- On Wed, 11/18/09, Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>
>> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Car 1141
>> To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
>> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 2:09 PM
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>> What's going on in this photo?
>> Is this car being used as a Speedrail freight motor? Or is this the
>> aftermath a certain friend's unofficial "fan trip" after Speedrail
>> shutdown?
>> (Don Leistikow will know what I am referring to.)
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>> K.
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