B&O 6 chime on WM 734 blasting through the snow at Trimble Rd.AVI
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- This is a video that I shot with my digital camera of 734 with my B&O 6 chime on it. Sorry about the poor video quality. I loaned the RR my whistles when they were supposed to go down to Petersburg, WV for the rail fest and operate on B&O rails. Sadly CSX denied them, but happily the railroad still used my whistles. Most of the recordings from 2010 are of the whistle before some adjustments were made to it to make it sound right. Yeah, it sounded unique before, but now it sounds AWESOME thanks to Kevin! The railroad also used my B&O 3 chime on occasion which was already "locked in" sound wise and really sounded great as well.
Check out SRR7312 video of 734 with the B&O 3 chime:
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And also video from BaltimoreandOhioRR for the B&O 3 chime (start around the 1min 10 sec area)
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Please continue to support the RR with your ridership and donations. And thanks for the compliments on the whistles!
I wish I could fully convey the significance of this whistle! My father's parents lived in Defiance, Ohio. I was 3 then 4 in 1955 and 1956. There was a regularly scheduled Eastbound peddler freight that would enter Defiance around 1:00 in the afternoon, hopefully after the departure of the Westbound Shannondoah, to pick up and set out cars in the small yard by FC tower. Almost always, it would be a class Q4b Makado , with this whistle!
Grandma lived about 5 blocks from the tracks. I could hear all the noise of backing up and going forward as they switched out cars. And then, there was that whistle.... Screaming as they left town for Willard, Ohio. Oh , to go back to that time again!!
You must be very old today
@@piyasutra20 Yes, I'm 71 yrs old.
K&L Trainz has the 734 but the whistle of 734 was installed on the K&L Trainz's B&O Q3 Mikado
SO... I am going to buy both of them on 12-23-2023 but... I am going to change the whistle sound from the Q3 Mikado... then add it on the H7 Consolidation...
734 Is a H7 Locomotive after all
Note that this whistle was used on the Q3 Mikados, the P7 "President" class Pacifics and the S-series 2-10-2 (Big Sixes). The three-chime whistle was used on the other 4-6-2's and other B&O steam power, except most of the shop-made T3 Mountains, other freight engines, a few switching engines and articulated locos such as the EM-1, which carried a Nathan single-note hooter, which sounded like the C&O long bell hooter, but a half-semitone higher.
Already well aware of that. The 6 chimes can be found on early power on a "straight" mount bowl where in "super power" days, they were on the side mount bowls on the steam dome. Evidence of this is in "Q", B&O Power, The B&O books put out by Morning Sun and others. I wrote an article for Horn and Whistle magazine on B&O whistles several years ago. I don't have a copy of it to tell you what issue. I might have also done an article for the B&O RRHS publication "The Sentinel".
As for the EM-1 whistle, it is a stock NATHAN plain bell. It measures the same as other NATHAN plain bells i.e. the NATHAN plain whistle on the C&O 1604 and others. Pitch can be influenced by whether it is blown on superheated steam, saturated steam, atmospheric conditions, distance between the bell and the bowl as well as whether or not there was one of the "steam deflectors" mounted on the bowl (EM-1's never had deflectors nor were the bowls cast with the tabs for mounting the deflectors).
A rare bird to find is one of the BR&P 5 chimes that were left on the locomotives when the B&O acquired them. (odd that they were kept on when the B&M T-3's didn't have them unless B&M removed them before shipping) It is a top lever design. I have a record of one somewhere in my collection. They are decent sounding.
Occasionally, you may also stumble across one of the "Button top" "tumor top" 3 or 4 chimes (there were both). These were holdovers from the CH&D.
I also did an article on PRR whistles for the PRR Technical and Historical Society publication "The Keystone".
@@whatdoidonext2234 Imagine, for the moment, you are 4 or 5yrs old. You are visiting your grandparents in Defiance, Ohio in 1956 in the summer. The double track mainline of B&O's Chicago Division Garrette Subdivision is 5 blocks away. It's supper time. Grandma calls for you to come to supper, and then you here the sound of this whistle coming hard and fast from the West. It's "Chicago 98" a daily hotshot Eastbound for Pittsburgh. Do you stay? Or do you go to supper??
That was me in 1956 and 1957.
I grew up to become a 3rd Class stationary steam engineer for 34yrs.
That is one of the BEST whistles I've ever heard. Wish we had it here for BR&W 60.
I can’t remember if I had it on the Bel-Del 142 or not.
@@whatdoidonext2234 Bring it to the BR&W and we'll put it on 60.
That is an Original B&O 6 Chime, i believe its a P Class Pacific 6 chime
As being the former owner of the whistle, and looking through MANY photo's of B&O steam, the 6 chimes were on everything from small switchers to the larger locomotives. They were not specifically just on the P class Pacific's.
Could be my new favorite whistle, after Reading 6 chimes of course.
This is my favorite after 4014 and 1522’s Hancock three chimes also no offense but the reading 6 chimes sound sharp and too loud. Sounds like they’re yelling or they’re voices are hurting
Best whistle Ive heard on this engine thus far......
Sounds Good Enough! If A B&O P7 was rebuilt, this could totally fit it!
I wonder what would it be like if 734 wore a Santa Fe 6 Chime.
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She's Used An SP 6. Thats the closest you're gonna get
Thank you very much. I still wish I had the camera pointed up just a little bit more, but I was still thankful to get the shot. Hardly any other crossings had a snow mound for the engine to blast through. 734 sounded so good that day.
Do you still own this whistle?
@@wwrr98 No, a collector in Huntington, WV bought it several years ago.
@@bbjimbo do you by chance have any contact info for him? Or do you remember his name?
Barely remember these on B&O Q4b Micados through
Defiance,Oh. 1954 - 1957!!
James' real whistle
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LOVE IT
Reading blue mountain and northern #425's B&O 6 Chime whistle from 2014 to 2016
This not R&N #425, this is WM #734, OK?
I can definitely hear the B&O part of the 6 chime, cause with the Doppler effect, The B&O 6 chime sounded like a GTW 6 chime to me
AWESOME!
Her bell sounds a lot like CNR 3254 kinda
Imagine if those 2 ever met up that be nice
This should fit on 1309 also this sounds like IAIS 6988
Steam trains. The only machine in the world with a soul and heart. May these rattling monsters roll on eternaly.
It looks like this video was Uploaded in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009
Reminds me of reading 2101 when she ran the chessie steam specials
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In my opinion #734 sounds kind of strange with that whistle. But a good recording nonetheless
It sounds like k&l trainz b&o 4500
the 4500 wore a standard B&O 3 chime. Sadly, her whistle was torched off at the steam dome, so the nipple would have to be removed before another whistle could be fitted. After looking through "Q", the B&O steam finale books and numerous other photos, the only variance in whistles were locomotives from Alton in which they carried a "button top" three chime or "button top" 4 chime. K&L trainz have it ALL wrong. But, that is no different than IHC or AHM slapping a B&O or FEC logo on what is clearly a WABASH or NYC caboose. They are not after accuracy, they are after dollars.
@@whatdoidonext2234 The original sound on the other chinese engine the GTW 6 chime on the 6988 made the GTW 6 chime to sound like a B&O
That whistle sounds like C&O 614s 6 chime whistle
614 never wore a b&o 6 chime, but it DID wear a reading 6
Thus sounds no where close to 614
Well actually that sound on the chinese engine 6988 sounds the same like 734 but it has a GTW 6 chime
Do you think it could be put on 1309 someday?
Don't know. I sold it a few years back. It's no longer mine.
@@whatdoidonext2234 It sounds like IAIS 6988
#734 sounds better with its Hancock 3 chime whistle. With this whistle if you hear it in the distance you would think SP #2472 was comming only to see #734 on the train. A different whistle makes it sound like a different locomotive. I wonder what #1309 will sound like
1309 would have a single note hooter whistle (which it and the rest of its class had, along with the H8 Alleghenies) that sounds like a Caledonian-style hooter.
No. Caledonian whistles are much higher pitch than C&O hooters. Or were there deeper pitched Caledonian whistles than the 828s.
0:03 734's sounded like Eevee's furious whistle