Horn and Whistle Forum International

For those people living or visiting SoCal, there are some cool horns you can hear. Coaster used to have some of the best K5LAs, but now they all sound like crap, and some are now raised letter, which honestly aren't so bad. All of the F-40s and the F-59s are getting retired so all the locos have tha...

Railgeek wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 9:25 pm Here's my oval inlet P1. You can see the inlet under the retainer spring and the diaphragm seat.

Can't seem to view the image. Maybe its what i'm viewing it on.

great Job!

Ok, So the oval inlets were basically the prototype P horns. Not many oval inlet P horns were made. They were produced from the early 50's to 1957 I believe. The Inlets are the little hole at the bottom of the foot of the bell that lets air into the diaphragms. The difference between "new" and "old"...

Since there is no posts so far, I'm starting this section off with your favorite siren. Mine is the 2T22/3T22.

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Nice to have a shortcut for this.

NickN wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:00 am At a guess I would perhaps say 25kg / 50 lbs, but I don't have one to check.

Yeah, I thought bronze was less dense then steel, and the steel bell weighs ~40lbs so I thought it would be around 30-40.

Looking for a low profile P manifold, around $140 is my goal price.

Just wondering how much an EMD bronze bell would weigh.