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For passenger loco's, railroads prefered deeper-pitched whistles, usually a long-bell 6-chime steptop, or long-bell "steamboat" 3-chime. For freight, short-bell 5-chime steptops were popular. The great majority of American locomotive whistles were 6-1/2" in diameter, large and heavy, weighing up to 90lbs!!
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 (officially nicknamed Maryland Thunder [2]) is a compound articulated H-6 class 2-6-6-2 "Mallet" steam locomotive.It was the very last steam locomotive for domestic service built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1949 and originally operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway where it pulled coal trains until its retirement in 1956.
In 1938, NBC reached an agreement with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for B&O to use NBC's tones to summon rail passengers for meals [44] In 1938, NBC's Advertising and Promotions Director, E. P. H. James, made an agreement with NuTone Chimes of Cincinnati to provide chime sets for sale to the general public.
The locomotives were equipped with a Hancock long-bell 3-chime whistle. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The class Js were among the N&W's most reliable steam locomotives; they ran evenly on its mountainous and relatively short route at an average speed of 40 mph (64 km/h), producing 5,100 hp (3,800 kW) at the tender drawbar.
At the end of 1970, the B&O operated of 4,535 miles of mainline track, not including the Staten Island Rapid Transit (SIRT) or the Reading Railroad and its subsidiaries. [3] The B&O’s long-distance passenger trains were discontinued in 1971 when the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) took over intercity passenger service ...
The Chesapeake and Ohio class H-8 was a class of 60 simple articulated 2-6-6-6 steam locomotives built by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio between 1941 and 1948, operating until the mid 1950s.
A party whistle A metal pea whistle. A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a small slide whistle or nose flute type to a large multi-piped church organ.
Sierra No. 3, often called the "Movie Star locomotive", is a 19th-century 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" type steam locomotive owned by the State of California and preserved and operated by the Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown, California.