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Passenger Trains > What type of horn does MARC have?Date: 11/17/17 14:45 What type of horn does MARC have? Author: Margaret_SP_fan Been watching the Railstream live wqebcam in Shenandoah
Junction, West Virginia (where the NS crosses over the CSX, about 70 miles W of Washington, D,.C., by rail) and heard MARC horns for the first time. Those horns sound really odd, and are not pleasant at all to listen to, but they are not at all overly loud, and they are impossible to ignore, so they do the job of alerting nearby pedestrians and motorists very well. Which leads me to this post. I have never heard any RR horns that sounded anything like these MARC horns. So, I would like to know the following: Manufacturer Model Number of bells Musical notes sounded Date these were first made You-hoo, Ed K! Hope you know the answers! TIA!! Date: 11/18/17 11:42 Re: What type of horn does MARC have? Author: joemvcnj I assumed the usual K5LA, but perhaps not. It is Amtrak's P42 horns that are more often than not out of tune.
Date: 11/18/17 14:50 Re: What type of horn does MARC have? Author: Margaret_SP_fan joemvcnj ---
Nope - most definitely not a K5LA. I have never before heard horns that sound like MARC horns -- raucous and very dissonant, like all horns are a minor second apart in pitch (musician talk for the difference in pitch between a white key on a piano and the black key next to it). The horns that are so odd are on the locomotives, as the ones on their cab cars are rather different in sound. I was really hoping Ed K. would see this and reply, as he should know the answer. I posted this here instead of just PMing Ed, because I thought others might also be interested in the answer. |