What's your favorite horn/diesel combination?

[haddock56]

Any Trainzers out there who have a favorite horn/diesel combination like the old SP GE C30-7s that used that awesomely musical Nathan P3 Old Cast? Feel free to comment on your favorite steam whistles too, if you have one.

 

[wholbr]

Hi Everybody.
Undoubtedly the Best horn diesel combination would be the British HST class 130 or 125. The high to low horn tone in combination with the engine turbo charger sound has to be the best real-life audio in the world to any rail fan.

There can be no better experience than being passenger in a coach near the front power car as on leaving London Paddington the consist cruises gently out of the station and then one mile down the tracks and on approach to Royal oak the driver opens the throttles and with the scream of the turbo chargers gradually winding up above the growing rumble of the diesels he then sounds the horns which to me always signals to me real start of the journey. The HST then cruises away to reach its scheduled speeds of up to 130 mph out through the suburbs of London and on into its journey to Britain's West Country .

Perhaps one day American rail fans will be able to experience the same when HST systems are built over there, if ever the politicians actually stop arguing and get round to building them.

Bill

 

[haddock56]

Hmmmm the British HST. Not a bad design, though to me the Class 55 Deltic looks a bit better. I could never understand though, why the air horns sound so different over there. Put a Nathan P3 Old Cast on one of those Deltic engines and see how the rest of the people react. I have way too many favorites to list but I'll counter the BR HST with a EMD SD60, SP 'Bloody Nose' with a Westinghouse E2B1. It may be a fictional one on the SP, but a few of Reading & Northern's SD50s have the E2B1 and it sounds awesome in the area they run in.

 

[CPman117]

my fav would have to be a dash 8 in full throttle blasting a Nathan K5LA

 

[haddock56]

my fav would have to be a dash 8 in full throttle blasting a Nathan K5LA

How about one of the now rare unpatched SP Dash 9's? I'm hoping they just leave one of them alone and repaint the SP scheme like it was the day it rolled off the shop floor.