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From: RWJ arjay3 AT comcast DOT net
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 17:34:41 -0500
Subject: DL&W E8 horn
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All photos I can find show all three bell facing forward and keeping a
regular A200 on the fireman's side facing rear. Attached photo shows a
rather good view of the horn. If someone has a couple A125's this could
be replicated fairly easily.
Looking at it I would definitely agree with Mike that it probably used a
lot of air.

Rich Jahn



On Feb 2, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Wdburt1@aol.com wrote:

>
> Bob Bahrs wrote:
>
>> My diesel diagram sheets show a Leslie three horn cluster: 2-A125LP

> 1-A200LP. Are you saying this is the three horn cluster that they
ran
> with
> through out most of their Lackawanna career?
>
> Leslie called it a Leslie-Tyfon A-125-200-3H. The three-horn cluster

> included a forward-facing A-200-156, a forward-facing A-125-349, and
a
> rearward-facing A-125-247.
>
> An August 1950 Leslie document states that "...the A-200-156-PA
(formerly
> A-200-LP) and A-125-247-PA (formerly A-125-LP) respectively... have
been
> standard diesel locomotive Single-Tone Horns on road locomotives and
switchers
> for more than 15 years." In other words, the Chime-Tone line combined
the
> existing road and switcher horns with a variant of the switcher horn.
>
> In all photos that I have inspected, the Leslie A-125-200-3H is easily

> distinguished by the large horn projecting forward from the center of
the
> cluster. IIRC, Nathan M3 installations on Erie E8s had the center
horn
> projecting rearward and the other two forward.
>
> There is some commentary on the web that the Chime-Tone horns were
real air
> hogs. My recollection is that they were louder than the M3s and could
be
> heard farther away--on the far side of Cuba Summit, for example,
instead of
> just the near side. When they opened up, it was like someone playing
on a
> pipe organ. The sound was somewhat like the later Leslie S5T, which
was a
> five-note SuperTyfon design often heard on the former EL when N&W
power
> started running through after 1976.
>
> I think Ron Chamberlain, whose letter to Classic Trains is reproduced
in
> Mike's reply, knows more about this subject. I haven't figured out
how to
> contact him.
>
> WDB
>
>
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