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Kevin Bush

March 04, 2006 12:14PM

They all had (except in some instances like on the RGS 455 that had a 5-Chime) the common standard D&RGW Hooter. Just like on 463. I believe the Rio Grande produced their own whistles or had them made somewhere else but they had D&RGW cast into the side of the valve and on top of the bell of the whistle. Some of the early ones were brass and later cast iron. If they weren't delivered with them they were put on soon after by the Grande.
The hooter was the Rio Grandes freight whistle and in later years the passenger engines had 5-chimes.
Bush

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Whistle K-27's History	Chris Scott	March 04, 2006 10:59AM
Re: Whistle K-27's History	Kevin Bush	March 04, 2006 12:14PM
Re: Whistle K-27's History	Ed Stabler	March 04, 2006 01:35PM
Re: Whistle K-27's History	Kevin Bush	March 04, 2006 10:13PM
Re: Whistle K-27's History	stuart olson	March 05, 2006 08:19PM
Re: Whistle K-27's History	earl	March 05, 2006 10:22AM
Re: Whistle K-27's History	Michael Allen	March 05, 2006 11:23AM
Re: Whistle K-27's History	Bruce R. Pier	March 06, 2006 07:08AM

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