My grandparents grew up in N&W and Virginian territory. They both described the hooters used on the Class Y, Class Z, and Class A locomotives as the “lonely call in the desolate mountains”. Partially because of how lonely and haunting it sounds, but also because it cut through the hollows and could be heard long before the train was felt or seen
My wife and I spent our Honey moon last November in the Smokie Mountains. One of our stops was Dollywood, which was decorated for Christmas and happens to be my favorite holiday. I have had an enormous love for loud cars and things like that. She convinced me to get on the train, which was my first time ever on a steam train. When I tell you the sound of the whistle took my breath away would be an understatement. I am an easily excitable 28 year man with the heart of a child. It was magical! We rode it more than once, and the second time around, I sat front and center to hear it! It actually brought tears to my eyes because of the incredible commanding authority it has when sounding off. I may ever make my first short on YT showing it!
If you look closely it's on a shay, most likely a reading 6 chime because C&O 6 chime whistles are a lot deeper. I'm 90% sure the highest pitch 6 chime belongs to reading
You should do the loudest whistle between the Reading 2102 hooter whistle and the Norfolk and western 1218 and see how many like it. Norfolk and Western has 2 whistles and they are the normal whistle and the other one sounds deeper
Hancock 3 Nathan 6 and Reading 6 sound like what serious heavy duty steamers are SUPPOSE to sound like, the both hooters sound like a poor excuse for a whistle that was just thrown on the engine in haste, probably stolen from a steel mill factory that used it to signal begin/end shift and lunch breaks😂😂😂
British steam: "Peep peep! pardon me, thank you"
American steam: "ATTENTION FUCKERS"
American steam (with airhorns): YOUR DEATH IS IMMINENT, MORTALS!
Nah the American locomotives are using more steam than they produce in a year just trying to scare the hell out of people near em lol
Bro, do you watch Thomas and friends the peep peep made me instantly think of Percy
This had me dead 😂😂😂
@@lando2k11 any locomotive boiler can build that amount of steam in an instant my brother, how much steam do you think it takes to run the wheels?
the bnsf competing against the big boy is hilarious 😭
It even got cut off 😭
the big boy whistle was also used in train and railyard simulator
BNSF 5885: Honk ho-
4014: SILENCE MORTAL!!!!
BNSF 585: doot doot
4014: *SHOUT OUT TO MY FANS FOR LETTING ME WIN!*
Beep bee-
*RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH*
The hooters are honestly terrifying
Have you heard a pennsy single chime banshee. It sounds like a bob cat scream
That c&o 6 chime was just alarming
@@ellisjackson336hearing it in person (Cass, WV) without expecting it is quite a sensation lol
My grandparents grew up in N&W and Virginian territory. They both described the hooters used on the Class Y, Class Z, and Class A locomotives as the “lonely call in the desolate mountains”. Partially because of how lonely and haunting it sounds, but also because it cut through the hollows and could be heard long before the train was felt or seen
Imagine hearing that at night while waking through a train tunnel in the fog…
Steam Locomotive: 👹👹👹👹
BNSF: 😊☺️
I love the third video with the diesel train and steam train crossover. Old whistle and New horn honking/whistling and saying hello to one another
I love the PRR 3 Chime
The Crosby 3 Chime on the 2 trains at Dollywood in Tennessee can't be beat. The sound of them rolling through the mountains is magical.
My wife and I spent our Honey moon last November in the Smokie Mountains.
One of our stops was Dollywood, which was decorated for Christmas and happens to be my favorite holiday.
I have had an enormous love for loud cars and things like that. She convinced me to get on the train, which was my first time ever on a steam train.
When I tell you the sound of the whistle took my breath away would be an understatement. I am an easily excitable 28 year man with the heart of a child. It was magical!
We rode it more than once, and the second time around, I sat front and center to hear it! It actually brought tears to my eyes because of the incredible commanding authority it has when sounding off.
I may ever make my first short on YT showing it!
I think the whistle on the sierra no.3 is the best and probably most iconic
" whenever you woo woo, you have to pretend you're tugging the train whistle like this WOO WOO" here you go with you're woo woo
I’ve heard the C&O 6 chime at cass at last years parade of steam!
I think the C&O hooter is the most haunting out of all of these
I think it’s the N&W hooter but I can also see C&O being haunting
Man that Reading 6 chime is nice. The Nathan 6 chime was cool too
In my opinion, the best whistle will always be the nickle-plated Southern Pacific 5 chime that SP 2467 wore.
Union Pacific also used 5 chimes on a number of their engines, as did the Rio Grande. I have a soft spot for the "howlers".
Debatable
4014’s whistle was so much more louder then #425 when I saw them in person
You are comparing a smol locomotive to the largest steam engine
@@LegendaryCollektor In the video he ranked 425 louder than 4014
@@k4productions thats dumb
@@LegendaryCollektor exactly
I agree with this list so much but I feel like a Southern Pacific 6 chime should have been on here but hey that's just me
Look up the recent test runs of Santa Fe 2926. Its 6 chime whistle would at least make this list. That thing ROARS when its moving down the track!
Please credit the orginal video makers
This 4014 whistle is like 4006 in
train and rail yard simulator
agree
90: GET OUTTA THE WAY!!!! Mr 614’s Ghost: Ok okat least I’m still Restored in the Shop
You go like woo woo
I love 1225s whistle so damn much
My favorite is the Nathan steel war 6 chime,and I heard it before
Love how the person holding the camera for the hooter got caught off guard when it went off
forgot to add Sierra railway #3
that 6 chime sounded deafening lol
Only the true engineer knows how to make a steam whistle sing
In my opinion I think the reading 6 chime 425 was the best!
It was like a Thomas and friends whistle
dude i am totally with you on 1 and 7 whistles
The c&o hooter... rip headphone users
King. Big. Boy
I think the 6 chime whistles sound the best. 😎👍
N&W 1218 Hooter whistle is my favorite whistle of all time
How do you know the specific chimes and types like Hancock and C&O and Nathan, etc like that?
Can we respect the balls on the person for the C&O 6 chime and just how damm loud the 4000 whistle is
That C&O 6 chime sounds a lot like a Reading Company 6 chime
i agree
If you look closely it's on a shay, most likely a reading 6 chime because C&O 6 chime whistles are a lot deeper. I'm 90% sure the highest pitch 6 chime belongs to reading
It’s not an original C&O 6, it was custom made and was made to resemble a Reading 6 chime but it’s got the shape and mostly sounds like a C&O
aye it’s my 765 clip. good stuff
I read that as the proud president lol
K4 3 chime is the best 🚩
5 sound rms titanic and Olympic
Deeper whistles are just objectively the best
The Chesapeake sounds the best in my opinion.🚂👌🏻👍🏻
The k4 3 chime is my personal favorite on this list.
I agree with this list
All about the echo
Union Pacific and 425 was my favorite
That c&o hooter should be number 1
number 6
Wow
the first one sounds like ronaldo suii commented saturday september 16th 2023 11:27 - 11:28 pm PDT (pacific time)
First one sounds like the sellafield emergency alarm
u forgot the vr 5 chime
Add the 2102 reading six chime whistle to the list as well and the 2102 reading hooter whistle
My favorite is SP P-8 4-6-2 #2472 which has a 6 Chime Nathan.
ATSF 3751
Number 4: you have eardrums? *NOT ANYMORE*
The N&W hooter is the best
What about the sierra number 3?
Thank god the N&W hooter is #1. The whistles on N&W's articulated locomotives are ear candy.
I miss Cass railway. No .6
Big Boy is top tier imao.
where's the R&N 2101 hooter? Deee-ammmm.
Where is the whistle on the Southern Pacific GS-4?
🏍🏍🏍
You should do the loudest whistle between the Reading 2102 hooter whistle and the Norfolk and western 1218 and see how many like it. Norfolk and Western has 2 whistles and they are the normal whistle and the other one sounds deeper
I hear suiii
What’s the video for the 6 chime war on 765?
Central Of Georgia 6 chime.
4014 whistle is awesome, probably my favorite one
Weren't k4's scrapped?
Has anyone spoken about the idiot walking infront of of the C&O Chime (6)
N&W hooters are the best
Your not gonna meantion the C&O Mocking bird whistle?
No ATSF/SP 6 Chime?
The c&o 6 chime is my favorite
Big boys Hancock 3 chime is louder than N&W hooter (my opinion duh)
hancock whistle sounds like rms olympic
U copy edwin comment
The 6th train 😂I am louder.
big boy 4014 🤔are you sure
*whistle talking* WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOWHOOOOOWOOOOOOOOO
C&O hooter scared the living daylight out of me
4014 is easily the loudest
This isn't showing the true range of the RDG sixer. It should have made #1. Look up "Strasburg 90 goes nuts" here on UA-cam.
My favorite whistle is the hancock 3 chime
I always think American whistles are a bit harsh compared to our lovely British ones
Totally
That is true dont steal
I’m just wondering how people don’t go deaf from that.
When your around trains a lot you don't go deaf
Yes N&w hooter is best
5 is my fav 😊
Pennsylvania is good
I remember in the 50th's N&W 611 has to be The 3 time Chime Whistle over of the People Making them DEAF
Nah no.3 Is the best
Where the fuck is the Lima 5 Chime
7: WAKEY TIME TO GO
6:PrAaAAaaaAda
5:pgerrrrrrrrrrpgrrrrrr
4:FRAAAAAAAAAAÀAAAA
3:pra ba prapa
2:FRAAAA MMMAAAAA
1:looot muut TVOOOOOOOOOOOOT toolooot
0:11 all aboard
Amazing big Canada steam tarins are better
How loud are these?
Too close and they can blow your eardrum out
I need a decibel rating
@@ThunderboltSirenStudios 96-110 dB
I've heard louder from a siren
@@joshuametzl1420 no it cant to blow its more than 150
Hancock 3 Nathan 6 and Reading 6 sound like what serious heavy duty steamers are SUPPOSE to sound like, the both hooters sound like a poor excuse for a whistle that was just thrown on the engine in haste, probably stolen from a steel mill factory that used it to signal begin/end shift and lunch breaks😂😂😂
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