Bill Kohler Wrote:
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> Ames was an ex West Side guy, wasn't he? While we
> were at Soap Creek we ran into Shorty Maddox. He
> was a West Side engineer and was working on the
> mainline train. There was a cabin that was used
> by the train crews when they had to hold over and
> we had a nice chat. I remember that he was
> lamenting about someone making off with his
> "hooter" whistle that was on West Side 10. I
> guess a number of ex-West Side railroaders moved
> over to Pickering after the narrow gauge shut
> down.

That hooter whistle was a 6" Lunkenheimer plain, or single note. Some collectors still
mistakenly refer to them as single chimes...there is no such thing. The catalog refers
to their single note whistles as plain types. A few years ago, Lunkenheimer became
Cincinatti Brass or a name like that and still offered that whistle new. In later years,
it was the only one like it on both the Pickering and West Side so you knew when the 10
spot was coming. The bell of the whistle was adjustable as to its height so one could
vary the tone by either raising or lowering the bell in relation to the bowl below.