Steam Locomotive Whistles at the Pine Creek Railroad

[@PowerTrain611]

So what's the issue with the manifold anyway? Just not big enough? Is there a leak? I recall that it used to work much better than it does now. I used to run the whistle stand during Railroader's Weekend. 10 years ago, it wasn't 100%, but it still sounded better than it does now... I'll bet Jim has some welding to do lol.

[@jerseyrf]

Don't think there's anything wrong with the manifold, we just didn't give the shop compressor enough time to catch up with all the whistle blowing lol Also the CNJ whistles used were much bigger than the ones we usually put on the whistle stand

[@PowerTrain611]

@@jerseyrf I would believe that those whistles are much bigger. I think CNJ used mainly 3 and 5 chimes. Hooters were standard in the ye olden days, and I don't think they ever had any 6 chimes. I know the shop compressor goes up to about 300 psi iirc, it's been at full pressure and the whistles would still sound like that. I don't recall ever finding out why that started.

[@jerseyrf]

@@PowerTrain611 Huh, thats interesting. We used the "usual" railroaders weekend whistles last year, and had no issue with them at all.

[@kennethreiser1296]

@@PowerTrain611 The whistles with the duct tape were my grandfather's. He got them from his uncle who worked for the CRNJ when steam was being phased out. The family lore is they got pulled off of engines as they were set aside for scrap in Cranford yard, though thinking about it I've seen video (on DVD collections) of deadline locos other then CRNJ ending up there, particularly Lehigh New England

[@PowerTrain611]

@@kennethreiser1296 Interesting! I've seen video footage of the locos being towed for scrap in Allentown, with the 833 being in the deadline. Such a sad sight, but at least some bits and pieces of other engines were saved... if only more than 2 whole engines survived.