SP 4449 Steaming by Diamond Bluff
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Published 2011-08-04
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All Comments (21)
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The horn here is actually a lot more classic than a steam whistle! Back then, most of these units ran in the San Francisco Bay Area. The fog was really thick there and sometimes the whistle couldn't be heard well through it, so they put Leslie A-200s on the locomotives. If you watch videos of SP Daylights in the 1940s, many will have this type of horn!
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My favorite steam loco just before the iconic cab forward. Was not expecting to hear the horn sound like that though.
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Amazing thing to see and hear.... its air horn is not something one hears often! I haven’t ever heard it in person, at least not that I can remember, and I’ve seen 4449 around quite a bit!
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I used to love this locomotive as a kid. Always said I wanted to run one when I grew up. Now I'm a decade and a half older, falling in love with it all over again…
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be glad you caught it, sounding it's horn, i haven't been able t find a video with it sounding it's horn
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Perfect acceleration by this steam beauty love to watch this video filmed with superb perfect fabulous sweet sound and timing
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I love the Leslie typhoon horn it’s awesome to hear it great video, it’s pretty rare for a steam engines to have horns.
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@kalebsthebest67 - Yes it is. On the locomotive, it can be seen on the fireman's side, as a brass trumpet-like horn sticking out of the streamlined skyline casing. When 4449 was in regular service on the SP, the airhorn was used more often than the whistle when approaching grade crossings.
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Many steam locomotives used air horns. Not only many SP locomotives but also NYC Niagaras, Milwaukee Class A Atlantics, Hudsons, and Northerns, the PRR S-1, Reading's streamlined Crusader locomotives, and many Lackawanna 4-8-4's, 4-6-4's, and 4-6-2's. Also the A-200 "Fog" horn as I call it, I think is just as nostalgic as a steam whistle considering its last common use was in the early-1980's when the GG-1's were retired.
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I think the Pioneer Zephyr originally had a high-pitched airhorn. Yes, there were steam locomotives with air horns, but there are a couple of MGM cartoons from the 1940s & early 1950s that the animators drew a diesel locomotive & the sound effect man used a steam whistle.
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here are some of my theroies why SP put an A-200 on the Daylights is that one: its a single horn horn, making it easier to mount inside the skyline casing, and two, the Daylights were to be used on the california coast, a place imfamouse for it's fog. A horn like the A-200 cuts throught the fog like a hot knife through butter.
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Southern Pacific GS-4 4449 is my favorite steam locomotive.
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The Hiawatha observation car is extremely RARE too!
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According to engineer Doyle McKormack, "The horn doesn't sound good at all" which is why he very rarely ever used it. But in regular service days, the horn was used ALL THE TIME for grade crossings, while the whistle was used at all other times, i.e., calling signals, etc.
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Doyle must not have liked that... last time someone blew 4449's airhorn, Doyle called them "Chum"
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Nice shot. Wasn’t expecting a miluake road super dome and skytop lounge. But overall, pretty good shot!
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So difficult to find videos of 4449 using her air horn. The audio quality is perfect, too! Great catch!
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Buen video de ese tren Pacífico de Sur 4449 de Estados Unidos saludos desde Argentina
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Awesome capture
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Great shot, love the doppler shift of that horn as it passes!
