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Larry
thanks
Eric Raitch

On 2015-06-08 12:58, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Eric
> 
>  No changes where made this time that I know of. In 82 they Change the
> location
> Of the whistle from the turret to the steam dome and change back to
> the turret at
> Some point in time
> 
> Larry Evans
> 
> "There's the sun, there's the moon, there's the air we breathe, and
> there's the Rolling Stones" Keith Richards
> 
> On Jun 8, 2015, at 11:15 AM, NW Mailing List
> <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
>> Ken
>> 
>> a couple of questions, was there a reason given for Preston
>> resigning and
>> 
>> what other technical points or changes makes the J611 different from
>> the earlier yrs going back to the the 1st restoration for the 80's
>> excursions runs?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Eric Raitch
>> Gainesville, VA
>> 
>> On 2015-06-08 08:10, NW Mailing List wrote:
>> 
>>> Mark
>> 
>>> As I understand it, the whistle on 611 is a Hancock Inspirator.
>>> This
>> 
>>> was the standard whistle for the streamlined passenger locomotives
>>> on
>> 
>>> the N&W and essentially, one should sound like the others. Now,
>>> that
>> 
>>> being said, 611's original whistle disappeared many, many years
>>> ago,
>> 
>>> probably while stored at Shaffers Crossing between 1959-1963. The
>> 
>>> whistle that was on it in it first excursion career, from
>>> 1982-1994
>> 
>>> belonged to Robert Claytor, then after his passing, son Preston.
>> 
>>> When the program ended in 1994, the whistle went home. When
>>> Preston
>> 
>>> resigned from the 611 project a few weeks ago, he took his whistle
>> 
>>> with him, understandably.
>> 
>>> As of at least the trip to Roanoke, the whistle was Cheri George's
>> 
>>> ex-Union Pacific Hancock Inspirator, which to me and some others
>>> who
>> 
>>> commented to me, did not sound correct.
>> 
>>> I'm not a whistle expert, Larry Evans can jump in here readily,
>>> but a
>> 
>>> lot of things factor into the sound. When I spoke with Scott
>>> Lindsay
>> 
>>> about it, he said he was bringing out his whistle next, so the
>>> sounds
>> 
>>> may be different over the weekends of operation as different
>>> whistles
>> 
>>> may be tried.
>> 
>>> Ken Miller
>> 
>>> On Jun 7, 2015, at 9:53 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List
>>> wrote:
>> hi all
> 
>>> i was watching a you tube on j 611 whistles i don;t want to start
>>> a
> 
>>> argument on whats best but i like to know and maybe i read it but
>>> i
> 
>>> thoght that no one owned the whistle i thought that norfolk
>>> southern
> 
>>> owned the whole train and when it was getting restored they have
> 
>>> same whistle can some one explain why it sounds different now then
> 
>>> it did then thanks
> 
>>> mark toewe
> 
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