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    Gs4 Air Horn

    Hi all,
    In my youth I lived near the SP main in SoCal. I remember hearing the AC's and the GS4's using not a steam whistle but a single note air horn.
    Question: is there an air horn available for Southern Pacific steam?

    Thank You,

    Fatboy

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    RE: Gs4 Air Horn

    They used Leslie A200 type horns, and I dont know of any off the top of my head other than the one that came with the default HHP8... I think there is another one out there,..but not sure what/where.

    Sorry-Jeffrey

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      #3
      Well Gents, now that time has passed and it's many years later, has anyone attempted to reproduce the Daylight GS-4's air horn for MSTS?

      As an aside, (old guy story time) that's all I ever heard from 4449 and her sisters when they passed by my boyhood home in Burbank. It was very unique at the time and much more effective than the melodious steamboat or stock whistle. SP made engine crews use it in built-up areas where there were lots of at-grade crossings as it was not only destictive but it really caught an auto driver's attention. Story goes that when SP switched to diesel power on the Daylights in 1955 or '56, people hated the tinny E-7 sound so much that they wrote hundreds of letters to SP management requesting that the railroad replace the diesel's air horn with the GS-4 horn. Heard somewhere that they complied, but I can't verify: I finished high school and went into the military before the damned diesels took over.
      Sure would like to install that single horn sound on my Train Sim GS-4s. Would bring it all back to life for me!
      Jon B

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        #4
        Jon, the horn is included in Brandon Smith's newest release of SP 4449. Pressing the X (Sander) key will blow the A-200.
        Last edited by mipman25; 08-09-2013, 15:38.
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