Nostalgia & History > Railroads using Nathan M-3 horns

What railroads and what diesel models were equipped with Nathan M-3 horns ?
Thanks in advance. --Kelly

Here's an easy one, D&RGW had them on just about everything.

Pretty much any horn could be put on any locomotive so it was a decision between the railroad and locomotive builder. As they were interchangeable, horns often got swapped during maintenance.

Off the top of my head...

DRGW, PRR were big users. Also DT&I, Lehigh Valey, CNW, Southern, Army.

Canadian roads used a M3 tuned to s specific musical note(s)on almost everything until the K3 became popular.

Michael

Modesto's 70 Tonners.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL-HeJ0TIKH5-28JZKGZJ4rQ-fI-1gS0Td&v=12kgCCiXGLA

Nathan M3's helped win the Cold War sounding off over the German country side moving the U S Army's supplies.

This was in the days of a full 5 man crew using hand and whistle signals. No radios.

German locomotives have only marker lamps with no true headlights. They also have peanut sounding horns and small air compressors.

When we arrived in the yard they would say here comes the sun with a loud Pfeiffer (horn). They would have us pump up their train, bottle the air so they would not have to pump as long.

Fun times from the past.

All of the 60 Tonners, EMD MRS1's, Alco MRS1's and SW8's that I ran in the Army had M3's.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 12/18/14 21:29 by ATSFlocal73-74.

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Grand Trunk was also notorious for its M3s.

tacobell Wrote:
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> Grand Trunk was also notorious for its M3s.

Actually the GTW used a variant of the M3, the M3H.

The M3 was also the BRC standard until about 10 years ago.

SP had a good number of them on early GP and SD 9s. Later they ended up on many other types of locomotives. Fs, Geeps, 2nd generation power ect. SDP45's 3204 and 3207 had them.

Regards, Jim Evans

The D&H had M3TR1s on a lot of their engines.

Alec

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Grand Trunk also had some straight M3 horns.


Englewood Wrote:
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> tacobell Wrote:
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> > Grand Trunk was also notorious for its M3s.
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> Actually the GTW used a variant of the M3, the
> M3H.
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> The M3 was also the BRC standard until about 10
> years ago.

Notorious?

tacobell Wrote:
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> Grand Trunk was also notorious for its M3s.

I have one that was in WP shops and originates from 1951. Idk what railroads it was used on but WP might’ve used some.

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