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Single bell whistle. On the Mopac, only on the oldest engines although I think I saw a 4-8-0 with a short one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_short_long_whistle.jpg
Three chime whistle. Most had flat tops. These were in favor until around maybe 1910. Steamboat whistles were large, very long 3 chimes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_single_bell_chime_image.jpg
5 chime/6 chime whistle. Began to find favor after 1900. The 6 chime is usually longer to add a deeper note to the 5 chime sound; these are the “moaning” whistles. Many roads used the mellower 6 chimes for passenger engines but the MP put them on everything including switchers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_6_chime_b.jpg
Study prototype photographs. Identify the whistle type and listen to the (admittedly model) whistle sounds on this website:
https://soundtraxx.com/reference/sound-samples/tsunami2-steam-sounds
Match the whistle type to the appropriate sound samples, there will be several. Pay no attention to the road name given, we will never know exactly how MP whistles were tuned. If you have the Tsunami2-2, Pick the one out of the appropriate type selections that you like best. No one will be able to fault you.
anonymousMember@cduckworth wrote:
Can you narrow down your question to a more limited timeframe? As example are you asking about the 1940’s or 1970’s? Lots of mergers involved during the decades. Thanks
Apologies for not specifying-was looking at the 1940s-1950s.
anonymousMemberFound some pertinent info for steam whistles fr an early Q&A in The Eagle if this interests anyone. Apparently all heavy passenger and dual-use power-the 6600s, 1150s, 4-8-2s and 4-8-4s-had steamboat chimes. Some of the 6400s got them later on as well. The 2200s had something close to a Baldwin standard chime. No pure freight power (2-8-2s, 2-10-2s, 2-8-4s, 2-8-0s) had steamboat chimes.
anonymousMemberanonymousMemberThere’s a whole lot more pictures up on net. Google water tower Alamogordo and they’ll pop up.
anonymousMemberStill in Alamogordo NM.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/24/30/1e243057133ef11d79e8309d66049233.jpg
anonymousMemberDid all the grain cars share the same number font?
None of his decals are for 4427 cars. (at least 4 different car types)
(His Flatcar decals are very good!)
Nothing I have seen matches the numbers Proto used, so the entire 6-digit number number would need to be replaced.
Thomas
DeSoto, TXanonymousMemberJust looked up the entry for Lexa.
“Lexa is one of the principal icing points for perishable produce being shipped from the Rio Grand Valley through St Louis”.
So an icing dock at Lexa would handle strings of ART reefers.
Not local, but could ne interesting to model and talk about ice reefers and how that changed the eating habits of the nation.
ThomasanonymousMemberRyan,
I do not remember seeing that division in ‘Down the Iron Mountain Route’, but I might be mistaken.
I just opened up “The Empire that Missouri Built”. Quite a few entries for Arkansas, but the entries are alphabetical, not by division.
If you have the town names on the division, I can look up the entries.
Nice blurbs on each town, but not much operation details.
Thomas
DeSoto, TXanonymousMemberThanks guys. Got an old Overland PA-3 waiting for a coat of Jenk’s blue & into freight service.
Gene
anonymousMemberin the book Missouri Pacific Through Passenger service:
Page 47
PA3 #66 (Was #8023)
Dipped in blue, white stripe along the bottom, Eagle on the nose. Looks like buzzsaws on the sides.
Listed as Ft Worth in June 1963, scrapped in 1964.
Not many Alcos in Blue. Jenks blue and the Alco purge were almost at the same time.anonymousMemberHow did you make those cuts and what tools did you use.
anonymousMemberI already asked Accurail about a Gulf Coast Lines version and they said Maybe.
anonymousMemberThe use of the compartments sorta mimics European practice.
anonymousMemberThe 2-10-0s ran on the NOT&M; by the semi-modern building in the back, my first guess is Houston or Corpus Christi. It’s almost certainly in Texas
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