In August of 1993 I remember reading somewhere on an old dial-up BBS board a write-up about a hotbox detector just south of Stockton California on the SP that had a speech problem. I remember specifically that the post mentioned that at the end of the transmission it said "DUH" . After hearing it for myself I found that it actually said "uhaa?".
I had to find this detector and get a recording of it before anyone fixed it.
I managed to make it down to southern California for a vacation and got a ride with a friend back north. We decided to hunt this detector down and get a recording of it.
The train didn't have a defect, but the detector sure did!
SP Detector with its own defect