Re: Earl's Powell

trainrider47 Wrote:
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> The whistle in the video is a Powell 3 chime,
> although it isn't a very good example of what that
> wonderfull whistle sounds like. Earl Knoob has
> custody of it, so it's currently on the SL&RG #18.
> It is actually the whistle from Rayonier #120, a
> logging Mallet. If you want to have the hair
> stand up on the back of your neck, buy Stan
> Kistler's CD "Whistles in the Woods" and listen to
> what it sounds like on a rainy day in the deep
> woods of Washington state!
>
> The reason you like it second to the Cass
> Lunkenheimer is the Cass whistle is probably also
> a Powell. Here's a link to a youtube video at
> Cass. The first whistle is not the Powell, but
> after a few seconds you will hear and see it.
>
>


>
> Michael Allen


Michael, I couldn't agree with you more. That has also got to be
one of the most traveled steam whistles of all. It was on 120 @
Rayonier, on Pickering 11 @ Rio Vista Junction, on former
Pickering 10 @ Klamath, on MB 1055 in Chemainus, B.C., in Hawaii
on the LK&P, maybe even at Graham County on the 1925 and finally to
Chama. I may well have missed one or two other sites.
I loved it when it was on the 10 @ Klamath becasue the acoustics
were so great there.
A big whistle, it might even be a little larger than 6" diameter.
It has been mistaken for a Lunkenheimer account of the separate
Lunkenheimer valve directly below it, but it was manufactured as
WOV (without valve). The larger Powells have a unique tonal quality
possibly because the tallest chamber extends into the hemisphere
of the bell.