Re: 484

Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> I just finished editing a video of Vintage Steam
> In The West with a WP 2-8-2. All silent films of
> course. There are also a couple of articulateds
> as well (403 and 404).
> As for the Mexico 4-8-4's I remember hearing a
> recording on a record which had a title in Spanish
> as I recall. There was a cut there of a train at
> night at a place spelled something like this,
> Huehuetoca(?) Anyway there is lots of switching
> then the train leaves town in a hurry and its a
> superb recording with the whistle blarring. It
> had a higher pitch, and a squeel to it, as if it
> was out of tune. But that one made your hair
> stand up. That might have been mobile fidelity,
> but I am not sure. I saw some 4-8-4's from the
> train in 1963, but never saw them really in
> operation. We missed a lot of good stuff, but at
> least we got to go see and ride some stuff. We
> did the NG a couple of days. 268 was our engine
> from Pueblo to Mexico City. I was 12!!!
> Greg

Correct Greg. Brad Miller had that taping set up with the
engineer and it was out of Huehuetoca (the boneyard).
Engine was one of the 2100 series light Mikados. If you
listen carefully, you can hear the guy pinch down with the independent
just a little to keep the exhaust cadence sounding good.

That quality of the whistle squealing is called overblowing and I only experienced
personally one time. That was in Guatemala in March of '73 when Al Shelton & I
were on ng 2-8-2 180. I could purposely make it overblow, but only on the very first pull of a series.