Very fouled horn on an ex-TFM SD40-2 in Salt Lake City... RS3L?

jonwray

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At 8:51 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1pUqJeEB_U
This ex-TFM SD40-2 has a very fouled horn, but I can't tell what it is. I know it's a 3 chime just by looking. However, I can't tell if it's an RS3L or RS3K or what.... I think it might be an RS3L, but I don't know for sure.
Recorded this in Salt Lake City on 5/29/2016.
 
Prime 920 with the #1 bell reversed. Put RS powerchambers on it and it will sound like a leslie.

It may have a #5 instead of a #4 (leslie equivalent 48 instead of 44), tough to say exactly

On second thought, and closer examination of the lengths of the bells yeah it's just a straight Prime 920.
 
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Prime 920 with the #1 bell reversed. Put RS powerchambers on it and it will sound like a leslie.

It may have a #5 instead of a #4 (leslie equivalent 48 instead of 44), tough to say exactly

On second thought, and closer examination of the lengths of the bells yeah it's just a straight Prime 920.
Pretty hard to find a Prime 920 these days isn't it? I quite like that one, and would have said it was an S3L, as it sound's pretty close, but the length of the trumpets on the horn were longer than Leslie's I've seen.
 
Pretty hard to find a Prime 920 these days isn't it? I quite like that one, and would have said it was an S3L, as it sound's pretty close, but the length of the trumpets on the horn were longer than Leslie's I've seen.
Prime bells are the same dimensions as leslies, only cast thicker and weigh a ton more. Primes do still exist out there- maybe not en masse but they can be found here and there. Several ex Milwaukee Road engines still have them, generally with replacement RS heads. UP's 6936 is actually running around with an S3L with prime heads.
 
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