WM 734's IC 3 Chime Compilation
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- This is a remade version of 64 seconds of 90s WM 734's whistle. I remade this because I found more videos with the crackable IC Steamboat she has. So here is more that 3 minutes of that same whistle. Enjoy!
VIDEOS USED:
1. All About: Fast Trains by Mill Creek Entertainment, uploaded to CZcams by M.L. Studios Extra ( • All About: Fast Trains )
2. Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, October 1993 by Speed Graphic Film and Video ( • Western Maryland Sceni... )
3. Celebrating 175 Years of the American Railroad by Great Scenic Railway Journeys
4. 100 Steam Engines by Main Line Motion Pictures
5. Western Maryland 734 (HD) by Joe Fusco ( • Western Maryland 734 (HD) )
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The IC 3 chime is one temperamental whistle, sometimes it works and sounds amazing, other times its...well you know.
That is true. But I personally like both clean and cracked editions of the whistle.
@seaboardrailfan429same. I like the cracked more for nostalgia reasons but the clean is amazing too.
They can be a Beautiful sounding whistle nice and clean, and they can be an ear piercing cracked mess that actually sounds quite nice at times
@NewEnglandFoamer Indeed
Dude..... this unlocked so many childhood memories for me....
Well glad to help
Easily my favorite steam whistle I've ever heard, it has even more character than most other IC whistles due to the cracks.
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Amazing Illinois Central 3 Chime whistle on #734
Ikr?
That Whistle Blast at 2:13 Was So Glorious
Tell Joe Fusco that, not me lmao.
I agree that it was good. It reminds me of when 4501 was wearing a Southern Railway Ps-4 whistle.
My fav whistle of 734 besides the WM 3 chime and B&O 6 chime? (Idk what it was but it can be heard in “Lots and lots of big trains”)
not a B&O 6 Chime but a 3 Chime of some sort. ik that 734 had on occasion an ATSF LM 192 5 Chime (sounded fucking great imo), but idk what that is tho
Ok thanks
Also I looked it up but it was a B&O 3 chime
They have GOT to put this whistle on 1301 for a little bit if they haven't already.
That would be super cool, but we'll just have to wait and see
They actually put a Southern Railway Ps-4 whistle on 1309, and that Ps-4 whistle is essentially a top lever IC 3 chime.
This whistle was put on the market by the owner who had it on #734 back in 2017, and videographer Mary McPherson purchased it for the Monticello Railway Museum.
Museum C.M.O. Kent McClure disassembled the whistle and found the steam distribution plate that fits beneath the bell was badly steam cut. He machined a new one to replace the worn one (the original is in our studio).
When the whistle was put on Southern Railway 2-8-0 #401 that summer and fall, we couldn't get it to shriek no matter how hard we tried.
It must have been the steam worn distributor plate that made the difference.
Whoops.... this footage was older than I thought. The whistle we got came later.
@@DivergingClear Yeah I saw your video about having an IC Steamboat on 401. Fantastic work I must say
@@seaboardrailfan429 there were actually 2 IC whistles it wore back in 2011. The original was mine, which I sold in 2017. After I quit, I took it with me. A whistle belonging to the historical society was put on. The bell of this whistle had a large crack in it which is what caused the odd noises and shrieking. The footage from about 1:30 on was 2011/12 with engineers Kevin rice and Mike spooler. I owned the whistle from 2007-2017 when I sold it to Mary. Before me, it belonged to an engineer at Dollywood. Prior that I am unsure of it’s history.
@@richardfitzwell384 Ah. Knew that other section sounded a little odd... kinda
@@seaboardrailfan429 there’s a few videos of my old whistle from 2011 prior to about August/September when it was swapped out for the historical society’s whistle. You can definitely tell which was which. I can’t remember which chamber the crack was on, but it was about 2-3” long. 734 played whistle swap quite a bit back then between alva’s Hancock, Carl franz b&o 3 chime, my IC whistle, the society’s IC whistle, and a few others. To my knowledge the society still has possession of their cracked whistle. Mary had done a good job taking care of my old one.
1:22 whistle sounds more like someone is slamming on the brakes in their car.
Why yes, yes it does
A standard IC Steamboat 3 Chime has the same power as a Hancock 3 Chime, it's demanding and commands attention. 734's cracked IC Steamboat 3 does that, and it raises the dead at the same time. Good stuff regardless!
Thanks
That 3 Chime might as well turn into a PRR Banshee whistle lol.
It will eventually. Maryland's weather will help speed up the process
@@seaboardrailfan429 It's now in Monticello, Illinois.
I love that 734
Yessir
It might just be the nostalgia from the old tapes I watched as a kid, but I’ve always liked this whistle.
It’s cracked and has a decidedly ugly sound…but it has character also.
Yes indeed
Id say this whistle fits #734 quite well. Rotten luck #734 won't be back any time soon and #1309 isn't using this whistle. That's the true voice of the WMSR if you ask me
There's the possibility in charters where the WMSR might swap out whistles on 1309. They've done it to 734, they'll most likely do it to 1309.
@@seaboardrailfan429 does the wmsr even still have 734's old ic 3 chime?
@@katerinakittycat3849 Idfk mate, go ask them.
@@katerinakittycat3849 they do not. It was owned by a Railroad club. From what i read, they wanted it back after 3 seasons. It went back on in 2011 tho.
That’s the whistle #2100 used!
What
@@seaboardrailfan4292100(supposedly) Used 734s 90s IC 3 during her Ferroequus Days.
i remember seeing this on a vhs tape of trains when i was a kid
I used to have it, but it disappeared one day
I think in the later video she sounds better, obviously wearing a non-damaged version and sounds as intended; real clean and my fave. :)
Yeah, but to me, the screams are nostalgic
This video GAVE ME THE KARS FOR KIDS COMMERCIAL! AHHHH
I'm sorry, the what now?
@@seaboardrailfan429 It's an annoying ad.
@@DAPchatt Ok.
734 should go back to IRM if you ask me! I know she’ll be right at home with stablemate LS&I 35 and museum stablemate Frisco 1630! Or maybe send her and 1630 to Strasburg for a meet up with 475 for an IRM reunion of steam!
autism
Am I the only one who prefers the 90's 734 with the black smokebox and lack of marker lights?
Nope, not at all.
Nope
Personally I’d prefer they keep the black smokebox, but put its markers on it,
Never mind I like markerless 734
I think the whistles were different. 734 had 1114s whistle in 93 and had the IC 3 chime in 94.
Interesting
They were the same whistle. The whistle that was claimed to be off 1114 turned out to be a IC longbell 3 chime that was in poor shape, hence the squealing. Both the WM and IC copied the Nathan 3 chime to fabricate their own whistles and because of this they look very similar. Alot of the shop made WM whistles also sounded this poorly. We made some small tweaks to the whistle when it was on the 734 in 2011 which is why it sounds a bit better than it did in the 90's. The only true WMRy whistle 734 ever wore was A Star Brass 5 chime that was probably delivered on a WM I2, but was taken off a 700 class 2-8-0 before it was scraped.
@@Spooler734 didn’t know that. I thought the sounds from 93 and 94 were totally different. Whistle specifically.
@@nicholasmedovich6729 And what about her IC 3 Chime whistle from 2015?
1:10 slightly terrifies me cuz it looks like 734 can't stop in time and she's gonna derail at the end of the turntable
Ah I trust in the WMSR folks enough...sort of
Sounds like a voice crack to me
734's steamboat in a nutshell. Voice cracks 24/7
Tbh I like 734 old whistle because it sounds much better than the replica version of it
Afaik, the other whistle it had isn't a replica
That is actually not an Illinois Central steamboat whistle. It turns out from a video I watched a while ago revealed that it's from class I-2 No. 1114 of Western Maryland.
Will rename it. Should I replace "IC 3 Chime" to "WM 3 Chime"?
@@seaboardrailfan429 I mean you don't have to. I'm just explaining to you about the whistle's origin.
@@jltrain-zgamingrailfan202x3 Oh alright. Well thank you very much for the info
Nope, the video that called it a WM whistle is wrong. It is an IC whistle that was later (incorrectly) stamped WM.
@@fuscoproductions Ok.
Western Maryland 2-8-0 Locomotive 734
1:11 [train whistle]
Lol
RIP Hoagie.
Sorry to ask, but who is this "Hoagie" you mention of?
@@seaboardrailfan429 Hoagie Hovater was the engineer in the October 93 footage of fast moving trains. He passed away in 2013. His name is stenciled on one of the former New Georgia passenger cars
@@nicholasmedovich6729 Well then... Rest in peace to Hoagie Hotaver
@@seaboardrailfan429 and Ray Larson and Daniel Pluta are the foreman and road foreman back in 93
@@nicholasmedovich6729 Oh ok
Too bad 734 is retired and rusting away. If she wasn’t, I could see a doubleheader with 1309
She was pulled into the shops at Ridgeley earlier this year
@@seaboardrailfan429 Interesting. I wonder what they’ll do with her
@@SouRwy4501Productions Restore it... duh. Why else would they put the one that blew them up in the Railfan Community in the shops after being retired?
@@seaboardrailfan429 I’m sorry. I wasn’t made aware of that happening.
@@SouRwy4501Productions Ok lmao
Good God, 734's IC whistle sounded so awful and screechy in the 1990s!
And that’s what makes it beautiful
Bro my ears
He scream
Boiler tube step top or a regular step top
I have no idea
Regular
Flat top