It's creepy to think that once these whistles were on these locomotives, thundering down the mainline. Now, those locomotives are all gone, melted down into newer things, and the only piece left of them are their whistles, still haunting the land with their ghostly cries.
Yeah most of the locomotives in this video are gone because they got scrapped like the reading pacifics they all got scrapped but the only piece left on the locomotives are the whistles now they are all haunting the land in the ghostly cries but i hope i dont get caught by one of them
That is true but we have there whistles. To remember them by. Even tho some of them anti here not more. But there whistles life on in private collectors. Sometimes i wonder where the where the whistle have not been heard. Since they been taken off of the engines that been long gone.
Imagine just talking a walk in an abounded forest...as you walk you encounter some railtracks, and as you follow the trail of tracks you stop. You hear a faint whistle as you walk by and you encounter one of those trains...
It's like spending a night out somewhere in Western PA all alone with nothing but the ghosts of yesterday to keep you company. I swear 2102's classic hooter sends chills down my spine every time I hear it... and boy that screaming PRR Banshee is something else
My uncle's friend, Eric, told me about a train wreck on my uncle's property. In the winter of 1896 there was a steam engine that was late getting from Huntingdon to State College with the township of Spruce Creek along the route. On the property, there's woods and a ridge in the woods. On top of that ridge is a rusty OLD railroad. The train's number has been long forgotten since then, but the wreck resulted in no survivors, with only one whiteness. The train was going too fast when the brakes broke and the engineer blew the whistle as long as he could. The train hit a bend, derailed and plowed through the woods and the boiler exploded. Again, the wreck resulted in no survivors. The conductor, and the engineer were scalded to death by the steam, while the fireman (the guy who shoveled in the coal) was found burned to death IN the furnace. During a fire in the town hall, the records of the train wreck were burned and the story is only known because it has been passed down and told over and over again. Ever since I heard about the wreck of the forgotten train, there's something haunting about the sound of an old steam engine whistle.
Souls where lost that day and the last thing they heard was the screaming of the whistle. 2 men and one iron horse died. If I can pic the perfect whistle sound for your story is at 1:40. That whistle is a hooter/ one chime whistle. (I could be wrong about this-> Back in the 1890 not many steam whistle had 5 chime whistle or 6 chime. Most had whistles of 1 chime.
@@stratuslocktheautobot4421 This whistle almost sounded like a siren. And if you could hear this ghost whistle in these woods it could be a siren to warn people not to search for the wreck
I swear, the PRR Banshee Whistle at the 5:05 time mark said, "Woo-hoo!" like it just won the lottery! That gave me a real good laugh. LOL! But seriously, these are all amazing whistles. Can't go wrong with an SP 6. Yeah buddy!
2:39 Is anyone gonna talk about how beautifully creepy that B&O 6 is? It starts out very soft and distant but gets louder as it echoes, and it has that eerie, melancholy tone that screams "I once pulled fast passenger trains, but now I'm little more than a memory."
I think 6:14 sounds like the perfect kind of whistle when someone gets angry. You know just like in the cartoons. Just that perfect pitch of a normal Reading 6 chime with that high pitch squeak like sound. You can go out in cartoon fashion with a whistle like that, have the hot red color on your skin just bubbling up like a tea kettle and end off with that whistle and I guarantee, if loud enough, no one would bully nor threaten you again.
It's sad to think that alot of these whistles are from trains that are no longer around, making recordings the only memory of them that we will ever see/hear
Did some guided meditation with my therapist and she asked me to go to my happy place. Yeah, derpy, but as my mind wandered i realized my happy place was somewhere i could watch Shays go by and listen for these whistles. Amazing.
As you walk home one foggy summer night, you stumble upon an abandoned railway line. As you look up and down the tracks they seem to be endless due to the massive wall of mist appearing at both ends of the tracks. Just before you cross them you begin to feel uneasy, the air is warm and calm so why do you feel this chill crawling up your back and that thumping in your chest getting fast and louder. Then you hear the faint sound of a whistle of a train in the distance and as you stare into the mist you can see a small yellow glare appearing in the center of it. At first you think to yourself it's just your mind playing tricks on you, but the light starts grow in size. All of a sudden you realize that nothing runs on this railway anymore. You start to feel a vibration coming from the rusted rail and than you look up and you see it, the shape of an old and disfigured locomotive.
I honestly was interested in hearing ghost whistles online. Since i was not born when these giants ruled the rails. I loved hearing these whistles so much that i now use them if I'm having trouble trying to sleep. Thank you for inadvertently helping me fix my sleep schedule.
6:45 i did not know the Gulf Mobile & Ohio's whistles sounded like that. Very unique sounding 3 chime, it almost sounds like a 5 chime! And I love the fact you put a Mobile & Ohio pacific here.😎 When the GM&N merged with the M&O to create the GM&O, they kept their usras such as this one!
Listening to these whistles reminded me of an old tale that my grandfather told me my grandfather used to work on a railroad he used to be a signalman he told me where other story of a train and the story goes something like this he said I was sitting in my signal box one dark and gloomy night it was raining and thundering and lightning he said I was in charge of managing trains going to and from cities in the distance between cities were very distant he said one dark and gloomy night around maybe 3:00 p.m. he said I heard a Long and lonesome whistle he said there wasn't any train scheduled passed through my signal box I was concerned and tried to call ahead to the station where the train had came from but the lines were dead due to the storm he said I kept listening and then whistle kept getting closer he said I grabbed my lantern and head out on the balcony of my switchman check which hunt above the railroad lines and try to to spot the locomotive I couldn't see it because of the long distance away and the curve was very sharp at the very end of it he said as I walked out on The trestle above the railroad I heard the long whistle getting closer I went back to my shack and tried to call ahead to the stations at the train came from and I still could not get an answer as I did this whistle got closer and closer I put the phone down and looked out my window and it looked like a big steam locomotive carrying some freight cars did it looked like a long good strain he said as the train passed the air around him was so cold and the train vanished as fast as it came he said he went back in and sat at his desk and waited for daybreak where a workman's train would come pick him up from his signal box and relieve him from his job he said ever since that day he never found out what happened to that train the end
Reading freight whistle is known as a Hooter in Reading parlance. Only the PRR had a banshee. PRRs was the highest pitch whistle in the US for a single note whistle too.
@@zxnyi3365 you're welcome. Most European single note screamers like the PRR and even higher pitched yet are also banshee whistles like Flying Scotsman 4472 for example. LMS locos have Stanier hooters and later Southern have Bullied Hooters. Caledonian railway in Scotland also employed hooters. Germany has both banshee and hooters.
We need to bring these whistles back at least. They're hauntingly beautiful. They'd sound incredible coming through the mountains of West Virginia especially at night when the air is dense and the sound echo's through the valley's.
I know some of these are still on Cass property. Shay 4's original whistle was on Shay 11 in 2009. The Southern bootleg was on Shay 6 in 2011. I know at least one is off property, SP 4450's which was last on RBMN 425 in 2018. Rest of which are either still on Cass property in storage or somewhere else.
Not a ghost story, but when I was a teenager, my dad lived on my great grandmothers property after my great granddad passed away. They had 40 acres and a few head of cows, so my dad moved over there to help take care of the farm. I spent almost every summer of my teenage years on that farm. Toward the back of their property, was a rail line. On some nights, my dad and I would have to walk parts of the property line to check for breaks in the fence. Almost every Tuesday at 10 PM, a freight train would pass along the rail line. You could hear its horn for miles before the cars would come rumbling by. I was always entranced by the sound of this massive freight car rumbling through the night. But, apparently there was a steam engine used for leisure tours that passed through, and on certain nights, you could hear the steam whistle, accompanied by crickets and the occasional baying of cows. It was like time travel in that moment to say the least. One of my favorite childhood memories.
The Southern Bootleg Hooter whistle has a tendency to jump a Major 13th interval from its normal E-flat to a B-flat an octave and a perfect fifth above it. It is comparable in sound to a human voice cracking.
Imagine having this played where those two abandoned Steam locomotives that are located in the forest in the state of Maine, that would probably be awesome and freak out some of the tourists and visitors while hiking to where the locomotives are located at.
The Reading T1 Banshee sounds like a wolf howling in the middle of the night and that would scare the living hell out of me if the Reading T1 steam engine was still around to this day
Sometimes, if you walk to some abandoned tracks, tunnels, or bridges, you can hear the whistles of the long forgotten locomotives that left their sounds waiting to be heard.
My Great Grandfather(My Mother's Grandfather) Used To Work On The Railroad. I still don't Know if it was C&O Or B&O, however when He Retired, He Was Given The Bell Of His Steam Locomotive, That One Of My Aunts Still Has Today. Last Year, Another One Of My Aunts Gave Me His Lantern For Christmas. Listening To These Whistles Reminds Me Of That.
Some really beautiful sounding whistles in that collection. Could imagine myself on a tree clad hillside with those sounds drifting up the valley. Would love one or two of these whistles for my loco but I don't think they would sound right on something so small!
Thanks for taking the trouble to put this together. Well recorded, away from the whistles to get the best sound. Great to see pics of the loco classes as well
Memories gone by, machines of the past once large now just a fragment of what they once were reduced to a whistle, screaming out into the darkness letting people remember the times gone by when steam was king, when you could hear that banshee whistle blow out into the endless night never resting until they met their end right were they began, recycled, repurposed, years of service forgotten only remembered by the sound of shrill whistles screaming out into the mountains reminding people of times gone by.
Harry Gum is such a great host. We backed the camper right up to the pasture fence with the Scottish Highland cattle, fed them apples from the property every day and listened to the "ghost whistles" when we weren't riding the Shays👍 Just beware, if you're a mechanic, Harry may ask you to replace a belt on his riding mower😅❤ Good ol' boy that we loved visiting 👍
In a way these whistles sound like they’re singing to each other. It’s actually kinda sad knowing that a lot of these whistles are off engines that were scrapped.
Wanna hear the story of PRR B6 134 one of the engines in the video? Well in 1946 134 was returning home it was a misty moonlit night as 134 crossed the bridge she suddenly lost control and plunged off the side into the river below... she was never seen again, but many workmen will tell you that when the moon is full you can see 134 crossing the bridge but she never reaches the other side.... so what do you think of that?
paused the video when the N&W hooter whistle was playing still kept hearing the whistle and a faint chuffing noise echoing throughout the valley and everyone on both sides of the tracks is awake no joke, i nearly pissed myself when i heard that whistle and chuffing Edit: I was half asleep when I made this comment so excuse the bs
Just imagine…. It’s the late 1940’s in an old railroad town set on the N&W. Everyone knows everyone, and you come home after a long day in the coal mines. You sit down for supper with your family, and while you’re eating, you hear the ghostly but familiar sound of an N&W hooter. You hear the chugging and puffing of a Y6b climbing up one of the many grades on the mainline. Everyone gets up from their seat to check out the 100+ car coal train struggling up the grade. You and your family get a wave from the engineer and brakemen.
I've heard about a ghost train from the grand trunk western railroad, you might never know this one but a long time ago in the winter of 1951, there was a 4-8-4 steam locomotive number 6320, she was hauling a passenger train with 74 passengers and 5 crew members on board heading to Niagara falls, when the engineer spotted another train up ahead, lead by her sister 6324, the engineer applied the brakes and blew the whistle as hard as he could, but it was too late... 6320 crashed into 6324 plunging into the deep cliff, and her boiler exploded during the impact, everyone on the train died... it was the worst train wreck in GTW history, and 6320 and her train.. were never found again... many railfans will tell you.. every night on the anniversary of the tragedy, you can see 6320's ghost trying to get to Niagara falls, but she never reaches her final destination.... another thing is that if you go to the site, you can see 6320's headlight and hear her GTW 6 chime whistle.. many trains collided with the ghost of 6320 vanishing into thin air... never to be seen again.... So what do you think of this story?
I bought an older version of that up at Cass and it didn't have all of those Whistles...Must've done a later version..I used to ride the engines to the top...had a lot of friends up there..
Imagine this Your out along a busy railroad mainline, no trains due, when a thick fog rolls in and it starts to rain, you hear a whistle in the distance and soon a mighty steamer rushes down the line with a passenger train and passes by you, the crew and passngers waving hi to you and then it vanishes into nothing, leaving you dazed and confused as you continue walking home wondering what that was you just saw
I played the Boston and Maine 5 chime in the fog while me and a friend were walking down some old abandoned tracks surrounded by woods where I live at in Pennsylvania, I went to turn around after the whistle to say it was a joke, they were already out of sight in a nearby tree
Funny well I've heard the story of Santa fe 4076, 4076 was a 4000 class 2-8-2 Mikado built by the baldwin locomotive works in 1924, she was a nice Mikado of handling freight trains in the southwest, until she was retired in 1950, but on July 13th 1951 she was in a deadline of steam locomotives waiting to be scrapped when it was decided to move 10 steam engines to the kaw river Bridge including 4076 due to a flood, when she was holding down the bridge with the 9 engines 2 spams gave way and 3 engines including 4076 fell into the river, 4076 was swept away and was never seen again.... until... in 1981, a demon went inside of her and cursed her! Today she still haunts the kaw river
If Your Not LIstening to this With Headphones, Your Missing Out On A Lifechanging Experience. These Whistles Become More than Just Whistles with headphones
Not all ghost trains are steam locomotives, in the winter of 1993 a freight train was getting late from Tennessee to north carolina the train was pulled by 2 diesel locomotives which are Illinois southern locomotives, and the front one is 1901, it was late at night and everyone was asleep, meanwhile, a prison bus was also getting late taking prisoners to the electrical prison center, when the bus went out of control, she hit the guard rail, and she rolled down the hill, and landed on the tracks, most of the prisoners got out, when the engineer saw the bus, he tried to blow the horn at long as he could and pulled the brakes, the last prisoner jumped out of the bus a half second before the crash, but then.. the crash happened, the prisoner was being chased by the other locomotive, so he avoided it, and there was a huge fire, the entire train derailed and the engineer was eventually killed in the crash, rescue workers tried to find the engineer, but he was no where in sight, they never saw him again, there's something Haunted about the sound of an old diesel locomotive horn
the lonsome cry of a steam whistle in the distance is all thats left of some of these iron giants. the weap that was once carried by a strong locomotive is now just echoing through the hills. the whistle is a steam locomotives voice but the voice is all thats left
Oddly and strangely relaxing at some times. I'm pretty damn sure someone has already tried to do music with it. It's one goddamn hell of a material for music.
I can remember as a child living outside of a southern Illinois town that was built around the 1830s and there were old train lines that ran through the whole town. But outside the town was where the old rail lines also ran, and on the part I lived in you had to cross a river. And down a ways you could see two pillars which were used for railroads, anyways. Every once in a while our of no where in the middle of the night, you could still hear an old steam train. Sounded like a banshee. But probably a cass 4 chime. Something along those lines. But everyone called it the ghost train because the rail lines were ripped up and it would just be in the woods you would hear it. But, I do believe during the civil war about 6-5 miles from where I lived an accident happened. I know where I live at now there is a 1850s bridge and I have read a few articles of a civil war train being attacked by rebels. And well where I moved too, yes sometimes you can hear a whistle. And we have zero steam locos go through town. So, yes in a former place I lived and now I do hear ghost trains.
it haunts me how a long time ago conductors used to drive those trains in the dead of night. Imagine waking up in the middle of no where on what seems to be a railroad that is endless. and hearing 'Reading T1 banshee' :). Sleep well
They should really bring back steam locomotives for commercial use. Use the right fuel, the smoke and ash they produce actually helps the environment. Why do you think they mountains around Cass WV look the way they do? Because of the trains that go up and down the mountain.
Thrilled to hear my Grandaddy Clyde @ Cass - he passed before I was born.
Interesting!
Susan Morrison he’s a legend
For sure!
Susan Morrison my great granddad Clyde
So sad because he passed away.
It's creepy to think that once these whistles were on these locomotives, thundering down the mainline. Now, those locomotives are all gone, melted down into newer things, and the only piece left of them are their whistles, still haunting the land with their ghostly cries.
Bro you ain't gotta do me like this. Ima be haunted for life 💀
You made that more scary than it needed to be Jesus Christ
😭😭😭
Yeah most of the locomotives in this video are gone because they got scrapped like the reading pacifics they all got scrapped but the only piece left on the locomotives are the whistles now they are all haunting the land in the ghostly cries but i hope i dont get caught by one of them
That is true but we have there whistles. To remember them by. Even tho some of them anti here not more. But there whistles life on in private collectors. Sometimes i wonder where the where the whistle have not been heard. Since they been taken off of the engines that been long gone.
Imagine just talking a walk in an abounded forest...as you walk you encounter some railtracks, and as you follow the trail of tracks you stop. You hear a faint whistle as you walk by and you encounter one of those trains...
I also like the b & m 5 chime
@@NERRP2017 yes, it sounds very good
@@wcr2265 yeah
I would Get on and go wherever it takes me
For me it would be the N&W 1218 for got which loco it is
4:15 That first blast gave me a chill. The way it built up, warbled in the middle and was so long was a perfect ghost whistle.
But it would sound beautiful in a valley!
It's like spending a night out somewhere in Western PA all alone with nothing but the ghosts of yesterday to keep you company. I swear 2102's classic hooter sends chills down my spine every time I hear it... and boy that screaming PRR Banshee is something else
My uncle's friend, Eric, told me about a train wreck on my uncle's property. In the winter of 1896 there was a steam engine that was late getting from Huntingdon to State College with the township of Spruce Creek along the route. On the property, there's woods and a ridge in the woods. On top of that ridge is a rusty OLD railroad. The train's number has been long forgotten since then, but the wreck resulted in no survivors, with only one whiteness. The train was going too fast when the brakes broke and the engineer blew the whistle as long as he could. The train hit a bend, derailed and plowed through the woods and the boiler exploded. Again, the wreck resulted in no survivors. The conductor, and the engineer were scalded to death by the steam, while the fireman (the guy who shoveled in the coal) was found burned to death IN the furnace. During a fire in the town hall, the records of the train wreck were burned and the story is only known because it has been passed down and told over and over again. Ever since I heard about the wreck of the forgotten train, there's something haunting about the sound of an old steam engine whistle.
woah…. that’s real creepy
Souls where lost that day and the last thing they heard was the screaming of the whistle. 2 men and one iron horse died. If I can pic the perfect whistle sound for your story is at 1:40. That whistle is a hooter/ one chime whistle. (I could be wrong about this-> Back in the 1890 not many steam whistle had 5 chime whistle or 6 chime. Most had whistles of 1 chime.
Creepy asf, Imagine hearing the same whistle middle of the night
@@stratuslocktheautobot4421 This whistle almost sounded like a siren. And if you could hear this ghost whistle in these woods it could be a siren to warn people not to search for the wreck
This story is disturbing
I swear, the PRR Banshee Whistle at the 5:05 time mark said, "Woo-hoo!" like it just won the lottery! That gave me a real good laugh. LOL! But seriously, these are all amazing whistles. Can't go wrong with an SP 6. Yeah buddy!
I was gonna comment that LOL!
So Casey jr.'s whistle is a PRR banshee whistle?
@@A1_PacificLNER Not really as Casey's whistle is I think 3 or 4 chime. Plus he can speak through his whistle
@@thomassoniccarsfan1220 his whistle is literally voiced by an actress
@@A1_PacificLNER You think I don't know that?
That Reading 6 chime made me shiver! Sounds like a lost soul wailing, especially the first part from in the distance.
The true ghost whistle too
I still prefer the Reading T1 Banshee whistle
2:39 Is anyone gonna talk about how beautifully creepy that B&O 6 is?
It starts out very soft and distant but gets louder as it echoes, and it has that eerie, melancholy tone that screams "I once pulled fast passenger trains, but now I'm little more than a memory."
I like it too
Kinda like Timothy's whistle
@@golamrabbani1780not really
4:16 a long gone beast has risen from its grave
that just sounds agressive, it wants to be restored.
@@wrrail reading t1 banshee is the perfect train 🚆 for tails and the ghost train 👻🚆
I think 6:14 sounds like the perfect kind of whistle when someone gets angry. You know just like in the cartoons. Just that perfect pitch of a normal Reading 6 chime with that high pitch squeak like sound. You can go out in cartoon fashion with a whistle like that, have the hot red color on your skin just bubbling up like a tea kettle and end off with that whistle and I guarantee, if loud enough, no one would bully nor threaten you again.
It's sad to think that alot of these whistles are from trains that are no longer around, making recordings the only memory of them that we will ever see/hear
‘Tis true
It's real or not?
Are there really ghosts at Cass or maybe not?
We still have the whistles themselves and a few of the engines (for example, we saved not one, but two PRR K4s)
we still have #4
Did some guided meditation with my therapist and she asked me to go to my happy place. Yeah, derpy, but as my mind wandered i realized my happy place was somewhere i could watch Shays go by and listen for these whistles. Amazing.
5:05 me when I’ve struck gold
HaHa!😂
Yes! I was gonna make a meme of that but you beat me by a year!
Gold comment, get it? Gold? Haha
And this is me when i hear the reading 6 chime 7:54
That N&W Hooter always sends chills down my spine. It is such a eerie and creepy whistle
So does the RDG one... Hooters in general are eerie.
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren475’s hooter whistle sends chills up my spine every time I hear it
Listen to the last hooter whistle it sounds like it's screaming in pain.
The N&W hooter made me shed some tears as it’s very haunting and fascinating to hear
As you walk home one foggy summer night, you stumble upon an abandoned railway line. As you look up and down the tracks they seem to be endless due to the massive wall of mist appearing at both ends of the tracks. Just before you cross them you begin to feel uneasy, the air is warm and calm so why do you feel this chill crawling up your back and that thumping in your chest getting fast and louder. Then you hear the faint sound of a whistle of a train in the distance and as you stare into the mist you can see a small yellow glare appearing in the center of it. At first you think to yourself it's just your mind playing tricks on you, but the light starts grow in size. All of a sudden you realize that nothing runs on this railway anymore. You start to feel a vibration coming from the rusted rail and than you look up and you see it, the shape of an old and disfigured locomotive.
Jesus! That has to be one of the spookiest campfire stories I've ever heard!
@@charlesweeks6993 should I write more to the tale?
Why not go ahead?
@@RogueGonzo12 Yes and by all means yes!
I can remember being a youngin with a couple friends and hearing that PR banshee whistle while we was walking, we all turned tail and ran back home 🤣🤣
I honestly was interested in hearing ghost whistles online. Since i was not born when these giants ruled the rails. I loved hearing these whistles so much that i now use them if I'm having trouble trying to sleep. Thank you for inadvertently helping me fix my sleep schedule.
Some people think these whistles are haunting while they help you to sleep, ironic
To be honest, I would love to hear their voices, they are not disease, they once were beautiful things on the rails before Disesls took over.
6:13 OH, Now you've done it...YOU'VE MADE ME 1930'S "FACTORY WHISTLE" FURIOUS!
bruh
@@o-o7820 indeed bruh
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
@@charlesweeks6993 it's a family guy reference
@@charlesweeks6993 golden reference
this video gives me goosebumps i love hearing train whistles like this
6:45 i did not know the Gulf Mobile & Ohio's whistles sounded like that. Very unique sounding 3 chime, it almost sounds like a 5 chime!
And I love the fact you put a Mobile & Ohio pacific here.😎
When the GM&N merged with the M&O to create the GM&O, they kept their usras such as this one!
Awesome. The best way to enjoy this is with your eyes closed and your imagination off its leash. Thank you for posting.
5:42 that Reading G1 was super perfect, basically sounds like it came from somewhere rural somewhere rails place railways at.
I loved the PRR K4 3 chime! that whistle almost sounded like PRR 1361.
1361 just so happened to be a k4
Listening to these whistles reminded me of an old tale that my grandfather told me my grandfather used to work on a railroad he used to be a signalman he told me where other story of a train and the story goes something like this he said I was sitting in my signal box one dark and gloomy night it was raining and thundering and lightning he said I was in charge of managing trains going to and from cities in the distance between cities were very distant he said one dark and gloomy night around maybe 3:00 p.m. he said I heard a Long and lonesome whistle he said there wasn't any train scheduled passed through my signal box I was concerned and tried to call ahead to the station where the train had came from but the lines were dead due to the storm he said I kept listening and then whistle kept getting closer he said I grabbed my lantern and head out on the balcony of my switchman check which hunt above the railroad lines and try to to spot the locomotive I couldn't see it because of the long distance away and the curve was very sharp at the very end of it he said as I walked out on The trestle above the railroad I heard the long whistle getting closer I went back to my shack and tried to call ahead to the stations at the train came from and I still could not get an answer as I did this whistle got closer and closer I put the phone down and looked out my window and it looked like a big steam locomotive carrying some freight cars did it looked like a long good strain he said as the train passed the air around him was so cold and the train vanished as fast as it came he said he went back in and sat at his desk and waited for daybreak where a workman's train would come pick him up from his signal box and relieve him from his job he said ever since that day he never found out what happened to that train the end
Omg if this happened to me i would sit in that signal box shitting my pants
These old story’s are somethin
That song sliver ghost almost matches the description of your story
As interesting as the story was, it was very difficult to read all of that because I can barely understand any of it u.u;
for those who want timestamps, here you go.
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0:09 Shay 4’s 3 chime
0:57 Gainesville Midland 3 chime
1:03 DM&IR Yellowstone (228) 3 chime
1:38 Reading T1 Hooter
2:07 C&O 6 chime
2:39 B&O 6 chime
3:18 B&M 5 chime
3:45 PRR K4 3 chime
4:15 N&W Y6 Hooter
4:48 same hooter + PRR B6 Banshee
5:25 Southern Pacific GS-4 (4450) 6 chime
5:42 Reading 6 chime
6:41 GM&O 3 chime
7:12 Southern Bootleg Hooter
Reading freight whistle is known as a Hooter in Reading parlance. Only the PRR had a banshee. PRRs was the highest pitch whistle in the US for a single note whistle too.
@@steamgent4592 Ah, ok! Thanks for telling me! I always get mixed up between banshees and hooters...
@@zxnyi3365 you're welcome. Most European single note screamers like the PRR and even higher pitched yet are also banshee whistles like Flying Scotsman 4472 for example. LMS locos have Stanier hooters and later Southern have Bullied Hooters. Caledonian railway in Scotland also employed hooters. Germany has both banshee and hooters.
@@steamgent4592 I have a question which one of these trains 🚆 were the sonic halloween movie tails and the ghost 👻train 🚆 was it pre 8b banshee
But what happened to all of the steam locomotives of the GM&O?
All of these whistles scream out "why did you scrap me? Why?"
Me being a huge cass fan i love this video
We need to bring these whistles back at least. They're hauntingly beautiful. They'd sound incredible coming through the mountains of West Virginia especially at night when the air is dense and the sound echo's through the valley's.
I know some of these are still on Cass property. Shay 4's original whistle was on Shay 11 in 2009. The Southern bootleg was on Shay 6 in 2011. I know at least one is off property, SP 4450's which was last on RBMN 425 in 2018. Rest of which are either still on Cass property in storage or somewhere else.
You would be right indeed they have a lot of different unique wistles including a mockingbird which still is in my nightmares
Not a ghost story, but when I was a teenager, my dad lived on my great grandmothers property after my great granddad passed away. They had 40 acres and a few head of cows, so my dad moved over there to help take care of the farm. I spent almost every summer of my teenage years on that farm. Toward the back of their property, was a rail line. On some nights, my dad and I would have to walk parts of the property line to check for breaks in the fence. Almost every Tuesday at 10 PM, a freight train would pass along the rail line. You could hear its horn for miles before the cars would come rumbling by. I was always entranced by the sound of this massive freight car rumbling through the night. But, apparently there was a steam engine used for leisure tours that passed through, and on certain nights, you could hear the steam whistle, accompanied by crickets and the occasional baying of cows. It was like time travel in that moment to say the least. One of my favorite childhood memories.
When puberty hits while singing 7:54
I don’t get it.
The Southern Bootleg Hooter whistle has a tendency to jump a Major 13th interval from its normal E-flat to a B-flat an octave and a perfect fifth above it. It is comparable in sound to a human voice cracking.
@@armagonarmagon3980 nicely described
@@ArkansasLocomotiveWorks it also does other things 😳
In other words, voice crack
Beautiful echoing whistles. Much more than just Cass
That B&O 6 chime is just spine chilling...
I tell ya, 7:30 has got to be the angriest sounding hooter i've ever heard in my life!
I love it when the whistle echos like there are other engines responding to them
That Boston and maine 5 chime is great! it makes steam locomotives whistles sound like a musical melody
Imagine having this played where those two abandoned Steam locomotives that are located in the forest in the state of Maine, that would probably be awesome and freak out some of the tourists and visitors while hiking to where the locomotives are located at.
Sounds like a Stephen King horror waiting to happen.
Imagine being a mountain man three months alone and hearing that for the first time oh what a relief it is lol
Wow. Really great stuff here, thanks for sharing!
Good Video! i like that T1 Banshee whistle and the PRR B6 Banshee whistle
The Reading T1 Banshee sounds like a wolf howling in the middle of the night and that would scare the living hell out of me if the Reading T1 steam engine was still around to this day
@@charlesweeks6993 Cool!
Sometimes, if you walk to some abandoned tracks, tunnels, or bridges, you can hear the whistles of the long forgotten locomotives that left their sounds waiting to be heard.
How can you hear the whistles of those engines and how faint sounding and long are they?
Like a visitation from the spirits of all who made the railroad, all the way back to the iron mines.
4:11 🎵 I get those goose bumps every time 🎵
My Great Grandfather(My Mother's Grandfather) Used To Work On The Railroad. I still don't Know if it was C&O Or B&O, however when He Retired, He Was Given The Bell Of His Steam Locomotive, That One Of My Aunts Still Has Today. Last Year, Another One Of My Aunts Gave Me His Lantern For Christmas. Listening To These Whistles Reminds Me Of That.
Can we talk about how the guys at Cass can quill literally any whistle in existence?? Imagine if they got to blow 844s or 4014s whistle
@irishboi7596 Why is that so true?
3:19 reminds me of the old days with S&A 750 doing the circle trips outside Atlanta in the late 80s
Most of these engines are now long gone but there souls will never die thanks to the people of the CSR
Some really beautiful sounding whistles in that collection. Could imagine myself on a tree clad hillside with those sounds drifting up the valley.
Would love one or two of these whistles for my loco but I don't think they would sound right on something so small!
Thanks for taking the trouble to put this together. Well recorded, away from the whistles to get the best sound. Great to see pics of the loco classes as well
Really enjoyed the different whistles.
Memories gone by, machines of the past once large now just a fragment of what they once were reduced to a whistle, screaming out into the darkness letting people remember the times gone by when steam was king, when you could hear that banshee whistle blow out into the endless night never resting until they met their end right were they began, recycled, repurposed, years of service forgotten only remembered by the sound of shrill whistles screaming out into the mountains reminding people of times gone by.
Harry Gum is such a great host. We backed the camper right up to the pasture fence with the Scottish Highland cattle, fed them apples from the property every day and listened to the "ghost whistles" when we weren't riding the Shays👍 Just beware, if you're a mechanic, Harry may ask you to replace a belt on his riding mower😅❤ Good ol' boy that we loved visiting 👍
In a way these whistles sound like they’re singing to each other. It’s actually kinda sad knowing that a lot of these whistles are off engines that were scrapped.
Now this is what I needed.
Thank you kindly :)
0:59 wow.... i need to make a GM 3 chime in trainz but the whistle is so short
Hello Arkansas locomotive works! Your my favorite trainz youtuber!
That banshee and hooter, a combo in heaven for me
Wanna hear the story of PRR B6 134 one of the engines in the video? Well in 1946 134 was returning home it was a misty moonlit night as 134 crossed the bridge she suddenly lost control and plunged off the side into the river below... she was never seen again, but many workmen will tell you that when the moon is full you can see 134 crossing the bridge but she never reaches the other side.... so what do you think of that?
paused the video when the N&W hooter whistle was playing
still kept hearing the whistle and a faint chuffing noise echoing throughout the valley and everyone on both sides of the tracks is awake
no joke, i nearly pissed myself when i heard that whistle and chuffing
Edit: I was half asleep when I made this comment so excuse the bs
Jesus
Aight
wow that’s scary when did that happen?
This sent chills down my spine
Nice video mate me and my friend really like it, Imagine going into an abandoned station at night and hearing this!
Just imagine….
It’s the late 1940’s in an old railroad town set on the N&W. Everyone knows everyone, and you come home after a long day in the coal mines. You sit down for supper with your family, and while you’re eating, you hear the ghostly but familiar sound of an N&W hooter. You hear the chugging and puffing of a Y6b climbing up one of the many grades on the mainline. Everyone gets up from their seat to check out the 100+ car coal train struggling up the grade. You and your family get a wave from the engineer and brakemen.
Bro why does everyone comment this kind of stuff on this video
I've heard about a ghost train from the grand trunk western railroad, you might never know this one but a long time ago in the winter of 1951, there was a 4-8-4 steam locomotive number 6320, she was hauling a passenger train with 74 passengers and 5 crew members on board heading to Niagara falls, when the engineer spotted another train up ahead, lead by her sister 6324, the engineer applied the brakes and blew the whistle as hard as he could, but it was too late... 6320 crashed into 6324 plunging into the deep cliff, and her boiler exploded during the impact, everyone on the train died... it was the worst train wreck in GTW history, and 6320 and her train.. were never found again... many railfans will tell you.. every night on the anniversary of the tragedy, you can see 6320's ghost trying to get to Niagara falls, but she never reaches her final destination.... another thing is that if you go to the site, you can see 6320's headlight and hear her GTW 6 chime whistle.. many trains collided with the ghost of 6320 vanishing into thin air... never to be seen again.... So what do you think of this story?
Awesome story rest in peace to all those who died
3:18
The Boston and Maine 5 chime is so beautiful sounding, I cant even explain it.
2:38 2:40 B&O 6 Chime (my industrial whistle) and my favourite
I bought an older version of that up at Cass and it didn't have all of those Whistles...Must've done a later version..I used to ride the engines to the top...had a lot of friends up there..
The Y6 was my favorite... N&W gotta represent. Awesome vid.
Imagine this
Your out along a busy railroad mainline, no trains due, when a thick fog rolls in and it starts to rain, you hear a whistle in the distance and soon a mighty steamer rushes down the line with a passenger train and passes by you, the crew and passngers waving hi to you and then it vanishes into nothing, leaving you dazed and confused as you continue walking home wondering what that was you just saw
5:56 a reading 6 chime squealing sounds so creepy!
Beautiful whistles that shay 3 chime is something else 😳
It's so beautiful and peaceful and compiled beautifully💐💐👌👌👌
The reading t1 banshee is definitely the best
That N&W hooter 4:15 second echoing hoot could’ve been straight out of a Pink Floyd track.
4:15 N&W Hooter
5:24 Southern Pacific Sixer
are my favs
6:05 RDG Sixer sounds good but Gave me chills lol.
5:24s sound eerie from the Richard Carter whistle video at 33:45
6:06
I played the Boston and Maine 5 chime in the fog while me and a friend were walking down some old abandoned tracks surrounded by woods where I live at in Pennsylvania, I went to turn around after the whistle to say it was a joke, they were already out of sight in a nearby tree
Funny well I've heard the story of Santa fe 4076, 4076 was a 4000 class 2-8-2 Mikado built by the baldwin locomotive works in 1924, she was a nice Mikado of handling freight trains in the southwest, until she was retired in 1950, but on July 13th 1951 she was in a deadline of steam locomotives waiting to be scrapped when it was decided to move 10 steam engines to the kaw river Bridge including 4076 due to a flood, when she was holding down the bridge with the 9 engines 2 spams gave way and 3 engines including 4076 fell into the river, 4076 was swept away and was never seen again.... until... in 1981, a demon went inside of her and cursed her! Today she still haunts the kaw river
Man, i feel bad for these locomotives. Maybe one day these locomotives will be brought back.
Imagine it's 3:00 a.m. in the middle of the night and then you hear 490s C&O's whistle in the distance
The gm&o 3 chime would fit reading 425 since 425 is an original gm&o steam locomotive
If Your Not LIstening to this With Headphones, Your Missing Out On A Lifechanging Experience. These Whistles Become More than Just Whistles with headphones
Aye
Not all ghost trains are steam locomotives, in the winter of 1993 a freight train was getting late from Tennessee to north carolina the train was pulled by 2 diesel locomotives which are Illinois southern locomotives, and the front one is 1901, it was late at night and everyone was asleep, meanwhile, a prison bus was also getting late taking prisoners to the electrical prison center, when the bus went out of control, she hit the guard rail, and she rolled down the hill, and landed on the tracks, most of the prisoners got out, when the engineer saw the bus, he tried to blow the horn at long as he could and pulled the brakes, the last prisoner jumped out of the bus a half second before the crash, but then.. the crash happened, the prisoner was being chased by the other locomotive, so he avoided it, and there was a huge fire, the entire train derailed and the engineer was eventually killed in the crash, rescue workers tried to find the engineer, but he was no where in sight, they never saw him again, there's something Haunted about the sound of an old diesel locomotive horn
the lonsome cry of a steam whistle in the distance is all thats left of some of these iron giants. the weap that was once carried by a strong locomotive is now just echoing through the hills. the whistle is a steam locomotives voice but the voice is all thats left
These are so chilling.
That PRR b6 banshee whistle is bone chilling, like the ghost of that b6 is telling me to run
Oddly and strangely relaxing at some times.
I'm pretty damn sure someone has already tried to do music with it. It's one goddamn hell of a material for music.
1:38 "Banshee" clever choice of word.
Beautiful
Thanks
The N&W and Reading Hooter and PRR Banshee whistles sounded exactly like ghost trains coming back to haunt the rails on Halloween!
I can remember as a child living outside of a southern Illinois town that was built around the 1830s and there were old train lines that ran through the whole town. But outside the town was where the old rail lines also ran, and on the part I lived in you had to cross a river. And down a ways you could see two pillars which were used for railroads, anyways. Every once in a while our of no where in the middle of the night, you could still hear an old steam train. Sounded like a banshee. But probably a cass 4 chime. Something along those lines. But everyone called it the ghost train because the rail lines were ripped up and it would just be in the woods you would hear it. But, I do believe during the civil war about 6-5 miles from where I lived an accident happened. I know where I live at now there is a 1850s bridge and I have read a few articles of a civil war train being attacked by rebels. And well where I moved too, yes sometimes you can hear a whistle. And we have zero steam locos go through town. So, yes in a former place I lived and now I do hear ghost trains.
I love how the Reading 6 Chime sounded at 6:14, am totally love it
I will forever adore Hancock Long Bell 3 Chimes like the one on DM&IR 228
I absolutely love the B&O 6 Chime
Some of these whistles are horror game material. Just imagining hearing that PRR banshee in the woods on a quiet night.
Would be pretty cool ngl
I definitely like the first whistle in this video. It kind of reminds me of the whistle used in the movie "Sometimes They Come Back".
It's the same whistle
Their bodies may be gone, but their spirits still linger onto the rails, doing what they were built to do
it haunts me how a long time ago conductors used to drive those trains in the dead of night. Imagine waking up in the middle of no where on what seems to be a railroad that is endless. and hearing 'Reading T1 banshee' :). Sleep well
They should really bring back steam locomotives for commercial use. Use the right fuel, the smoke and ash they produce actually helps the environment. Why do you think they mountains around Cass WV look the way they do? Because of the trains that go up and down the mountain.
We need another one
Maybe
With horns
Anyone else wearing earbuds to this, gives me chills
Same
Jeez... That Y6 Hooter... Sounds like it's calling out for help...
Just imagine walking down abandoned train tracks. And when you hear this whistle, and you'll be like. What in the hell was that?