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Re: Fog horns
Author: fkrock
Date: 03-18-2013 - 11:59

Supposedly an engineering study showed that air horns were much cheaper to operate than a steam whistle on a locomotive so engineers were instructed to use the airhorn whenever possible. A steam whistle uses a lot of steam that must be generated from fuel.

Going back to 1950 steam whistles were very rarely heard on the SP San Jose-San Francisco line.

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