Re: [Photo] What was SP train #247?
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 12-18-2015 - 19:36
niles tower Wrote:
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> Gentlemen,
>
> Thank you all, and in particular, thank you to Mr.
> Benson for his interesting essay on this train,
> the El Dorado.
>
> By the way, a curiosity I noticed is that the horn
> on the locomotive is on the short hood, pointing
> aft. Passengers in the first coach must have
> received an earfull that day.
What you're seeing in the photo is the rear horn.
The three demonstrators were built with two single-chime horns. The forward horn is mounted on the right side of the long hood, above the engineer's front windshield.