[milwaukee-electric] Whistles & Air Horns

[Ken and Tracie]

Are the correct horns for L-4 the same as the 1100s? That's what it had at 
East Troy.

L-7 had a regular Westinghouse whistle. I believe L-9 & L-10 had interurban 
horns at Lakeside.

BTW, I take back what I said about 415....they have something on 846 at East 
Troy which sounds like a drunk goat heaving. Check it out on "You Tube."

K.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Greig" <sbgreig_m1 at yahoo.com>
To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:55 PM
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Car 1141


> 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??????)
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> 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.
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> 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:
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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, 3:39 PM
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> 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.
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> 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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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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
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>>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.
>>
>> K.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.)
>>>
>>> K.
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