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When I was little, both the T&NO and the MP back home in new Iberia LA were still in steam, the MP till 1954 I think and the T&NO till late 1956. We lived equidistant from each line so I know I heard each railroad, and I remember the sounds quite well. I heard mostly high pitched 5 chimes but do recall a couple of 6 chimes.
The 5 chime sounds I heard were mostly pretty close to number 45 on the TSU 2200, oddly called a Reading 6 chime, but whistle 19, a D&RGW 5 chime, is almost identical. Whistles 37 and 38, called Nathan 5 chimes, actually resemble the deep toned 6 chimes I heard in the night.
There’s no telling which railroad these sounds came from. But even at that age I was paying a lot of attention to trains, so there’s some chance thst MP
engines were in the mix.
