Re: 484, and guest whistles

Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> It's my understanding that John wished to leave
> it on and I hope that remains the case.

May we assume that #484 is also running a lot more 'square' than back in 2009?  (See [ngdiscussion.net] et seq.)
If so, the combination of a well-running engine and a unique whistle should be hard to resist!

> It's got a nice pleasant tone, I had it on a few
> locomotives, but that was back in the 70's . . .


Was #4449 by any chance one of them, Tom?

During her rebuild in Portland during 1974-75, piping for a second whistle was added near the stack, and the levers in the cab were arranged so that either the engineer or the fireman could sound either her 'regular' whistle on the right or the 'guest' whistle on the left.  IIRC, even the original S.P. six-chime was replaced for a couple of days by a second 'guest' whistle more than once while the Daylight was on tour with the American Freedom Train.  Brad Miller accompanied the train on several legs of her journey and captured recordings of numerous different whistles, but his final attempt to record the obnoxious air-horn met with some resistance from fireman 'Uncle Al' Phillips (see [ngdiscussion.net]).

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