Abbreviations:
-D&RGW 5-chime, unmarked cast iron:
D&RGU
-D&RGW 5-chime, cast iron 6” bell on 5” base:
487
-D&RGW 5-chime, RLW clone, fabricated steel:
Rizzoli
-D&RGW 5-chime, bronze 6” bell on 5” base w/ “169” stamp:
169
-D&RGW 5-chime, cast iron with flaw:
D&RGF
-Reading 6-chime:
Reading*
-Unknown bronze step-top 5-chime:
Steptop
-Unknown bronze flat-top 5-chime:
Flattop
-Powell 3-chime:
Powell*
-AT&SF 6-chime:
AT&SF
-B&O 3-chime:
B&O(*?)
-ALCO 5-chime: ALCO*
-Hancock short bell 3-chime:
Hancock*
*denotes a whistle not owned by and/or no longer at the railroad
Engines:
168 --
2019-: unmarked plain bell on D&RG bowl
463 -- 194u-:
D&RGW hooter
483 -- 1970-72: some D&RGW 5-chime; 1972-74: 169; 1974-77: D&RGU
484 -- 1971-1974: D&RGU; 1976-80: D&RGF; 1985-8u: Reading; 198u-90: Steptop; 1991: Reading; 1992-95: Steptop; 1996-99: Reading; 2004-11: D&RGF; 2012: B&O; 2013-14: Flattop; 2015-16: Steptop; 2016: Hancock; 2017-19: Flattop; 2020: Hancock;
2021-: Flattop
487 -- 1974-2002: 487; 2003-04: Reading; 2005-17: 487; 2018-20: Rizzoli;
2021-: 487
488 -- 1979-80: D&RGU; 1981: 169; 1982-85: D&RGU; 1985-86: Flattop; 1986-90: 169; 1990-92: D&RGU; 1992-97: 169; 2005-14: Steptop; 2015-16: Flattop; 2016-2021: Steptop; 2022:
D&RGW hooter;
2023-: Steptop
489 -- 1981-82: ALCO; 1982-85: 169; 1986-89: Powell; 1990: Reading?; 1991: Powell; 1992: Reading; 1992-98: Powell; 1998-2000: Steptop; 2001: Powell; 2008-2021: AT&SF; 2022: Steptop;
2023-: AT&SF
497 -- 1992-2000: Flattop; 2001: Reading; 2001-02: D&RGF
Short lived and special whistles:
C&O hoot (484, 2012)*
American 5" 3-chime (484, 2012)*
Lunkenheimer 6" 3-chime (488, 2018)*
SP Desert 5-chime (497, early 90s)*
A hooter (489, 2021)*
463 wore the bell from the "169" whistle on its whistle's bowl, July-September 2021
A 3-chime on 168 (late 2021, 2023)
Howdy all: long-time lurker here. In a fit of pandemic lockdown boredom, I took to collating a timeline of whistles and their engines at the C&TSRR. I am not an expert on whistles, nor a Chama local, and worst of all a young person whose majority experience with the narrow gauge was through the power of home video- I would've taken only my second ride this season- so feel free to tear into it! My basis was mainly a 2013 post from Earl Knoob I dug up (http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,249221,249599), plus some other posts; obviously this stuff is indebted to Earl and others' knowledge and memories. I then checked and amended it against photos of the whistles and videos/audio featuring the railroad's sounds over the years. I did my best to take into account things like doppler effect, mic quality, etc, when identifying the whistles.
A lot of special and private whistles have been left out; this is just what they appear to have worn during your average season run. Also, if you know for a fact that I blatantly got a whistle wrong with one of the video examples, don't hesitate to let me know. Enjoy!
Edited 51 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/2024 11:09AM by IanLK.
