Y6b shrill whistle

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So did the mallets use a different whistle than the A's?  I know the whistle Mike is refering to, and it is not the familiar hooter, nor the deeper whistle of the passenger engines.

Marty Flick

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  Mike, you must be too young to have heard the real thing.   N&W's mallets had unique high whistles that echoed up and down the valleys through which the N&W ran.   They were a beautiful contrast to the deep chime whistles of Class J and K passenger locomotives. 

   

  As I grew up, seventy and eighty years ago, I would lie awake at night listening to the long-drawn-out whistles from freight trains running up and down the Scioto River valley in southern Ohio.   N&W's whistles - freight and passenger - were different yet from those of the B&O that crossed the N&W in my home town of Chillicothe, Ohio.

   

  Bob McKell   

   

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  I bought a Y6b from Broadway and it has an alternate whistle which I couldn't stand until I watched Sunday River's N&W Articulate video again--there it was.  It is very shrill.  Any idea what it is and how it was used?

  Thanks,

  Mike Shockley

   



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