0:05 - K5HLA, basically a K5LLA but on a high manifold like a K5HL. The unit no longer has this horn, it has a normal K5HL now 0:15 - K123A. A regular K3LA has the bells 1, 2 and 4A, while this has the 1, 2 and 3A bells, similar to a K5LA which as a 1, 2, 3A, 4A and 5. This unit now has a regular K3HA 0:40 I have no idea 2:27 - Sounds like a K3HL but with a weird arrangement. This unit has a K3HA now 2:44 - Too hard to tell, cant see number 3:14 - K5HLB, one of the most favorite horns among railfans, and is my personal favorite. It has the bells 1L, 1, 2, 3B and 4, unlike a regular K5HL which has a 3 instead of 3B. The variant on 7606 is a 1st Gen K5HLB, which only 9 were known to ever have been made. Today, only 4 of those 9 (3 on BNSF, 1 on CSX) making it a very rare horn. 7606s was replaced by a regular K5HL just within the past few years. 4:00 - This sounds like a K3LA, but today this unit has a very sick K5H with three of five bells dead 5:17 - hard to tell, probably some random K horn 6:00 - Standard K5H horn which is pretty common on some CSX Dash 8s. This unit has since been sold and was probably scrapped. I like these horns a lot. 6:45 - Prime 314455. Pretty odd Prime horn arrangement, with the 31, 44, and 55 bells. Prime horns are similar to Leslie but not completely the same. This unit today has a standard K5HL 7:14 - hard to tell 8:04 - Don't know, probably an RS25 8:28 - K124. Just like the K123A earlier, this one, instead of having a standard K3LA with the 1, 2, and 4A bell, has a 1, 2 and 4 bell, similar to a K5H which has a 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. This unit retains its horn today 8:41 - K3HL but with a dead 2 bell, making it sound very low pitched with just the 1L and 1 bells working. The K3HL is very common on CPs ECO units. 9:05 - Mutt Prime 990, with the 31, 37 and 44 bells 9:23 - K5L, basically just a K5H on a low manifold like a K5LA 9:35 - Hybrid K5HLA. This horn, similar to the K5HLB, is a rare horn and also a railfan favorite. It has bells 1L, 1, 2, 3A and 4. There are around 20 of these on BNSF and some others on different railroads.
Euro train horns: Hi there friend sorry to bother you but I really need you to give me some room to get by. Thank you god bless. American train horns: DO YOU WANNA BECOME A STATISTIC? NO? THEN FREAKING MOVE OUT OF MY WAY!
I want to come back and identify some of these again, now that I have a more trained (no pun intended) ear 0:41 both looks and sounds like a K5H with a couple chimes missing 3:14 I think is a K5HLB (which I just learned about recently... but also I found another video of it that said that's what it has). Also it's just plain creepy 6:21 is a raised letter K5H 9:24 is probably a hybrid K5LA. It sounds somewhere between the standard issue K5LAs GP60s had and a first-gen K5HL, and that's usually how you can tell a hybrid K5LA. 9:35 and on are both K5HLAs. NS 8101 (Central of Georgia) had one out of the factory and still does, far as I know... along with NS 8096. Pretty rare, from what I hear.
Coming back to this with a bit more knowledge than I had before, I think that's a K5HLA. I've heard a couple of them before in person. Actually, NS 8101 has one
TPW 4020 with a K124?, UP 6937 with a K3HL, 7606 with a K5HLB(Unfortunately not on it anymore :( ), CSX 7371 with a K5H with either a flat 4 or a 3A bell in place of the 3, NS 7148 with a hybrid K5LA, BNSF 6932 and 6935 with a hybrid K5HLA.
9:05 I heard a train horn at night that sounds almost identical to that horn, I did not know what the horn was but I suppose what I heard was rare? -(The Train Was on a Union Pacific Line -2 main lines)
First one is a NF K5HLA 2PC 1L, second one is a NF K123A, third one is an RL K124, fourth is a NF K124, fifth is a sick RL K3HL, sixth is a tough one sounds like a sick NF K3LA, seventh is a NF K5HLB 2PC 1L, eighth is a RL K3LA, ninth is a NF KS-1 bell, tenth is another RL K3LA, eleventh is a NF Hybrid K5H with bells 1 2 3 4A 5, twelfth sounds like a weird NF K3LA, thirteenth is a Prime 920, fourteenth is an RS 25 37 48, fifteenth is an RS-31 bell, sixteenth is a NF K124, seventeenth is a RL K11L, eighteenth is a VERY RARE Leslie RS 33 37 44, nineteenth is a NF K5H (2000's era), twentieth and twenty-first are RL K5HLA's. Hope this helped guys!
Explained: 1: K5HL was intentionally built like that 2: Bells 1, 2, and 3 were on on a K5LLA(?) 3 and 4: Odd K3H 5: Bad tuned K3LA (1 and 4A) 6: 3 Chime version of K5HL (he did s&hc) 7: bad K3LA 8: Sick K5HLB 9: 1st gen flat K5HL (Bells: 1L 1, 3a and 4a) 10 and 11: Single chime horn 12: Flat K5HL 13: K5H (Ex-Conrail?) (btw the sign says deaf child) 14: Dead 2nd gen K5HL 15: RS3K (you like it BNSF2184) 16: Oddly tuned S3L 17: another single chime (leslie horn?) 18: weird K3L 19: M3H (bells 1L and 1) 20: odd S3K or PM990 21: K5H 22 and 23(final): Hybrid K5HA (K5HLA)
0:00 K5HLA 0:15 K123A NF 0:40 EMD K3LA? 1:57 K3LA with a dead 2 i assume 2:26 K1L1223? 2:44 K3LA with dead 2 3:26 K5HLB RL 4:24 K3LA 4:59 S25 or S31 5:24 K3LA 6:00 K5H NF2 6:46 Some weird Prime 7:13 Mutt RS3K 7:28 RS3L with 25 31 55 8:04 S31 8:31 Another EMD K3LA 8:41 K3HL with a dead 2 9:05 Some prime 9:24 K5H of some sort 9:35 K5HLAs
EMDX 785 has a very rare horn called Leslie RS3P and the weird 5806 has for some reason got 2 higher note trumpets instead of 1 like normal. The base trumpet on 5806 is missing and is a reconfigured RS3L. After looking at the horns in the footage, this is what I found out. However, don't know none of the others.
@Hobo Railfanning Because I seen it before sitting in Jonesboro and it has 3 chimes. One of them much bigger than the others. I also seen EMDX 750 sitting in Jonesboro as well. It and its RS3K from hell. Hopefully, this helps and have a blessed day.
@@justintuckermanrailfan8429 you too, thank you. I am aware about the old Leslie that was on 7639, as well as a Ferromex unit with one, but it’s extremely hard to come by other engines with one.
I mean I know Nysw 3014 has an old Cast P5 but Nysw 3014 train horn sounds cool but we all know Nysw 3022 it has P5 horn and NJT GP40PH-2 4112 used to have a P5 horn now its replaced with K5LA horn with the NJ Transit trains GP40PH-2S and GP40PFH-2bs and F40PHs and same as Metro North railroad all K5LA
3:00 that horn was awesome enough but TWO warbonnets!
Sick goose alert at 8:06 🤣🤣🤣. That horn sounded good in the 80s, now it sounds cheesy compared to the newer horns.
That’s just a single chime Leslie
Sounds like those horns from metro north commuter trains
@@cooscountyrailvideos2024 they don't make single chime horns anymore. I kinda miss hearing them. Like I said back in the 70s they had a lot of them
Imagine if BNSF put that horn on their more modern engines
Favorite horns: 0:05 0:31 2:35 2:44 3:34 6:21 7:13 7:27 8:33 9:30 9:38
3:34 is a K5HLB
yeah but its really fouled and it sounds awesome
@@BKNPhotography its not fouled its just to loud
@@BKNPhotographyits not fouled its perfect
0:57 I personally think it's a fouled 90s K5H.
6:10 I actually think that CSX horn sounds like a K5H you can clearly see it’s a stacked horn.
I actually like that horn tho!
I agree, that was a common Canadian tuned K5H, more popular on a number of those older GE's
0:05 - K5HLA, basically a K5LLA but on a high manifold like a K5HL. The unit no longer has this horn, it has a normal K5HL now
0:15 - K123A. A regular K3LA has the bells 1, 2 and 4A, while this has the 1, 2 and 3A bells, similar to a K5LA which as a 1, 2, 3A, 4A and 5. This unit now has a regular K3HA
0:40 I have no idea
2:27 - Sounds like a K3HL but with a weird arrangement. This unit has a K3HA now
2:44 - Too hard to tell, cant see number
3:14 - K5HLB, one of the most favorite horns among railfans, and is my personal favorite. It has the bells 1L, 1, 2, 3B and 4, unlike a regular K5HL which has a 3 instead of 3B. The variant on 7606 is a 1st Gen K5HLB, which only 9 were known to ever have been made. Today, only 4 of those 9 (3 on BNSF, 1 on CSX) making it a very rare horn. 7606s was replaced by a regular K5HL just within the past few years.
4:00 - This sounds like a K3LA, but today this unit has a very sick K5H with three of five bells dead
5:17 - hard to tell, probably some random K horn
6:00 - Standard K5H horn which is pretty common on some CSX Dash 8s. This unit has since been sold and was probably scrapped. I like these horns a lot.
6:45 - Prime 314455. Pretty odd Prime horn arrangement, with the 31, 44, and 55 bells. Prime horns are similar to Leslie but not completely the same. This unit today has a standard K5HL
7:14 - hard to tell
8:04 - Don't know, probably an RS25
8:28 - K124. Just like the K123A earlier, this one, instead of having a standard K3LA with the 1, 2, and 4A bell, has a 1, 2 and 4 bell, similar to a K5H which has a 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. This unit retains its horn today
8:41 - K3HL but with a dead 2 bell, making it sound very low pitched with just the 1L and 1 bells working. The K3HL is very common on CPs ECO units.
9:05 - Mutt Prime 990, with the 31, 37 and 44 bells
9:23 - K5L, basically just a K5H on a low manifold like a K5LA
9:35 - Hybrid K5HLA. This horn, similar to the K5HLB, is a rare horn and also a railfan favorite. It has bells 1L, 1, 2, 3A and 4. There are around 20 of these on BNSF and some others on different railroads.
i think 7:14 is one of 2 things: a RS3L or a RS3K
@@RDC2003 its an rs3k with a 44 bell instead of a 48
Which train horn sounds the funniest?
The K3HL Horn That The Engineer Made A Shave And A Haircut
8:07
What a coincidence to see you here!
5:01😂😂😂
Euro train horns: Hi there friend sorry to bother you but I really need you to give me some room to get by. Thank you god bless.
American train horns: DO YOU WANNA BECOME A STATISTIC? NO? THEN FREAKING MOVE OUT OF MY WAY!
I want to come back and identify some of these again, now that I have a more trained (no pun intended) ear
0:41 both looks and sounds like a K5H with a couple chimes missing
3:14 I think is a K5HLB (which I just learned about recently... but also I found another video of it that said that's what it has). Also it's just plain creepy
6:21 is a raised letter K5H
9:24 is probably a hybrid K5LA. It sounds somewhere between the standard issue K5LAs GP60s had and a first-gen K5HL, and that's usually how you can tell a hybrid K5LA.
9:35 and on are both K5HLAs. NS 8101 (Central of Georgia) had one out of the factory and still does, far as I know... along with NS 8096. Pretty rare, from what I hear.
the breakdown train had a single chime horn
CSX 7371 sounds like it has a fouled Hybrid K5HA 6:10
It’s a K5H
And I like it
@@Mrmonkey19888 Same 💯
the one on 7:15 is a mutt RS3K with a 44 in place of 48
and the ones on 9:33 is a Hybrid K5HLA that sounds like an old cast P5
Some horns are earlier styles of their modern day successors while others are Canadian tuned and a select few may be fouled.
Most of these horns are just early styles of them or just fouled lmao
0:18 Sounds like a K5LA
2:48 sounds like Prime 990/K3L
2:48 looks fine to me
3:35 almost sounds like a K5HLB
1st gen K5HLB
@@Idkwhatiamnow ah
Those last 2 almost have an M5 sound to them. Definitely not saying that's what they are, but pretty similar chord
Definitely agree on the M5 chord. That’s cool.
Coming back to this with a bit more knowledge than I had before, I think that's a K5HLA. I've heard a couple of them before in person. Actually, NS 8101 has one
Both are Hybrid K5HLA’s.
TPW 4020 with a K124?, UP 6937 with a K3HL, 7606 with a K5HLB(Unfortunately not on it anymore :( ), CSX 7371 with a K5H with either a flat 4 or a 3A bell in place of the 3, NS 7148 with a hybrid K5LA, BNSF 6932 and 6935 with a hybrid K5HLA.
i thought 7606 still retained its horn and it was 7608 that no longer has it?
Both 7606 and 7608 no longer have them, 5846 and 7607 are the last older ones on BNSF
@@CSX500 did the horn go to a collector or did they scrap it ?
No clue about 7606
You're right about 4020, but 6937 has a 5 chime horn. I believe with 1L 1 1 2 2.
785’s horn is good!
CP 5023's horn I believe is an k3hl. One of my favorite horns out there
Some horns are also mix cast
At 6:10 there’s a sign saying Deaf Child on the side for whatever reason but I like the horns!
I like that caboose in the second video. Probably historical society. Good shotz of the train coming
At minute marker 6:00 through 6:45, the horn was programmed specifically for the deaf child.
All of the horns sounds cool to me
First is a K5HLA
Second is a K3LA variant with a 3a instead of 4a bell.
Ive seen that K123a horn on a CP engine and at first i thought it was a K5LA
0:02 that sure looks like a K5HL but as a matter of fact, that is a K5HA.
K5LLA on on a high manifold
First generation k5lla I think
K5HLA
1st gen K5HLA
9:42 K5HLA
That’s actually a hybrid K5HLA.
That is really cool
2:29 Thats a K3HL i think
Yes it is!
The reason the K3 sounded like a K5 was because it was a K5
Actually its a mixed K3LA with K5LA parts
@@TheMilwaukeeRoad Interesting
Nope, still a 3 tone
Is it odd of me to say that trains are weirdly majestic? They are very beautiful yet terrifying inventions- the Bewilderbeasts of transportation.
9:00 sounds like a K5CA-LS in "quiet" mode (3/5 chimes active) like on the GO Transit MP40PH-3Cs
Dude at 6:00 those are some nice glass insulators on that pole with the deaf child sign
I think UP #5284 might have a Narrow Font K5HLA or a 2nd Gen K5LA.
The weird five time horn is actually a K3HL from Nathan airchime
It’s a K5HL with bells 1L 1 1 2 2.
Correct
@@RFE812 wrong
True that is a K3HL
6:00 Csx K5H
6:33 did u notice that the sign says deaf child
Horn also sounds like a k5l sense CSX horns are so fouled it sounds different
Why does it say deaf child at 6:33
@@Mrmonkey19888 no idea but it just says deaf child
6:46, sound like a leslie rs5t with a dead 25 and 37 bell
0:40 is a K124 and 8:33
The first horn sounds like a freaking ocean liner!!
the csx around 6:00 is what every train is se michigan sounds like
6:21 "Deaf child"
That is really unlucky.
0:34 i seen this horn before on a ns unit and the unit was put in storage or bought by a diff company
9:05 I heard a train horn at night that sounds almost identical to that horn, I did not know what the horn was but I suppose what I heard was rare? -(The Train Was on a Union Pacific Line -2 main lines)
6:00 This is probably a hybrid K5LA
9:35 Both sound like a Hybrid K5HLA
8:04 BNSF 3444 has a Leslie S31.
2:31 that’s a K3HL
Had 5 chimes....
@@BNSF2184 some k3hls tend to sound like that sometimes
That YN2 CSX dash 8 is just a regular raised letter K5H.
7:30 that RS3L sounds like a Funky sounding K5HL
3:29 is a Nathan K5HLB
6:24 one of CSXs weird K5LA hybrids I think
5:00 sounded like either an S31 or a Wabco A2
Nice train horns
6:47 is a Leslie RS3L
UP 1111 has a weird horn lol
9:41 Those are K5HLA's
2:58 this is a fouled K3LA. At least half of the warbonnet had this horn
That rail america locomotive had a K5H horn it is a ex BC Rail locomotive
The last two GEVO horns (BNSF 6935 & 6932) are both K5HLAs
6:10 A fouled CSX 1st Generation K5HL.
8:46 What you are hearing sir is a rare horn called a K3LP.
The first raillink train sounded weird because that is what they call a sick horn because where the rain gets into the horn to make it sound weird
The horns on MoW equipment always seem weird...it's never going to be like the typical locomotive horn.
First one is a NF K5HLA 2PC 1L, second one is a NF K123A, third one is an RL K124, fourth is a NF K124, fifth is a sick RL K3HL, sixth is a tough one sounds like a sick NF K3LA, seventh is a NF K5HLB 2PC 1L, eighth is a RL K3LA, ninth is a NF KS-1 bell, tenth is another RL K3LA, eleventh is a NF Hybrid K5H with bells 1 2 3 4A 5, twelfth sounds like a weird NF K3LA, thirteenth is a Prime 920, fourteenth is an RS 25 37 48, fifteenth is an RS-31 bell, sixteenth is a NF K124, seventeenth is a RL K11L, eighteenth is a VERY RARE Leslie RS 33 37 44, nineteenth is a NF K5H (2000's era), twentieth and twenty-first are RL K5HLA's. Hope this helped guys!
The horn at 0:49 sounds a little oddball but it doesn't sound bad at all.
Sounds like a metrolink train
8:04 sounds like a Leslie Single Chime
0:06, could be a k5hla because the bells are the same as a k5lla
First one is a hybrid K5HL mixed with a K5LA
0:48 K3H
(7:14 - 9:07) IORY 9500 mentioned.
This is The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Train Horn Clips!
2:38 is a Leslie
No that’s a hybrid
@@Mrmonkey19888 leslie
Ok
@@midwestsirens no, it kinda sounds like a k3hl
Explained:
1: K5HL was intentionally built like that
2: Bells 1, 2, and 3 were on on a K5LLA(?)
3 and 4: Odd K3H
5: Bad tuned K3LA (1 and 4A)
6: 3 Chime version of K5HL (he did s&hc)
7: bad K3LA
8: Sick K5HLB
9: 1st gen flat K5HL (Bells: 1L 1, 3a and 4a)
10 and 11: Single chime horn
12: Flat K5HL
13: K5H (Ex-Conrail?) (btw the sign says deaf child)
14: Dead 2nd gen K5HL
15: RS3K (you like it BNSF2184)
16: Oddly tuned S3L
17: another single chime (leslie horn?)
18: weird K3L
19: M3H (bells 1L and 1)
20: odd S3K or PM990
21: K5H
22 and 23(final): Hybrid K5HA (K5HLA)
21 is a K5HL
@@roadrailsrunwaysofwny It's a k5h it has nothing to do with a k5hl
@@David50068 after rewatching i agree
It sounds like a K5HL but it's a K5H
The first one is a 1st Gen K5HLA
They use a lot of those horns on CSXT
9:45 K5HLA Raised Letter hybrid i think
Correct
0:15 probably because it has the 1, 2, and 3 bells instead of the 1, 2, and 4 bells
bnsf 7606 has a 1st gen k5hlb
Also at 9:37 that train is actually a K5HLA (I think so)
CP 5023 sounds like a M3H with 2 chimes on. It might be a K3H
Yeah some CP rail units horns get so fouled that they sound like M3s
8:34 is a K124
I hear those BNSF horns all the time
3:30 K5HLB I believe
I love BNSF 7606's K5HLB
I think the (crane thing) has a two chime
the last 2 horns are both 3rd gen k5hla
the last two horns are K5HLAs
But sounds like a m5
Meh not really they have a deeper pitch
Unity
0:00 K5HLA
0:15 K123A NF
0:40 EMD K3LA?
1:57 K3LA with a dead 2 i assume
2:26 K1L1223?
2:44 K3LA with dead 2
3:26 K5HLB RL
4:24 K3LA
4:59 S25 or S31
5:24 K3LA
6:00 K5H NF2
6:46 Some weird Prime
7:13 Mutt RS3K
7:28 RS3L with 25 31 55
8:04 S31
8:31 Another EMD K3LA
8:41 K3HL with a dead 2
9:05 Some prime
9:24 K5H of some sort
9:35 K5HLAs
2:26 is a K3HL
@@KadenStenka nope. i hear some other chimes in there as well
1:57 doesn't have a dead 2 bell, it's probably not heard as well because it's reversed
4:59 is an s31
5:24 looks like a stacked horn or a k3ha
6:54 a very fouled RS5T
1:00 sounds like a rotem tho
6:00 sounds like a K5H or a K5HA
EMDX 785 has a very rare horn called Leslie RS3P and the weird 5806 has for some reason got 2 higher note trumpets instead of 1 like normal. The base trumpet on 5806 is missing and is a reconfigured RS3L. After looking at the horns in the footage, this is what I found out. However, don't know none of the others.
Wait how do you know 785 has a rs3p? Also, do you know any other units with one?
@@NorthEasternMotionProductions BNSF 7639.
@Hobo Railfanning Because I seen it before sitting in Jonesboro and it has 3 chimes. One of them much bigger than the others. I also seen EMDX 750 sitting in Jonesboro as well. It and its RS3K from hell. Hopefully, this helps and have a blessed day.
@@justintuckermanrailfan8429 you too, thank you. I am aware about the old Leslie that was on 7639, as well as a Ferromex unit with one, but it’s extremely hard to come by other engines with one.
I mean I know Nysw 3014 has an old Cast P5 but Nysw 3014 train horn sounds cool but we all know Nysw 3022 it has P5 horn and NJT GP40PH-2 4112 used to have a P5 horn now its replaced with K5LA horn with the NJ Transit trains GP40PH-2S and GP40PFH-2bs and F40PHs and same as Metro North railroad all K5LA
2:26 that is a K3HL
Why is nobody talking about how the BNSF end cab has an E bell and a mechanical bell
743 had an RS5T
The last horn on the list is a old cast p5
0:32 that’s actually a K5LA
0:41 K124
K5L and K3L are the best sounds
The first one is a K5HLA.