GS-6 Split Personality

There is an "ash dump" sound???   On an oil burning steam locomotive??

Sure it isn't a "blow down" sound?

You are aware that the GS2's were equipped with an airhorn, along with the whistle?

Rusty

I have gotten locomotives that have different features that I did not expect.

When I hit the on/off smoke button on my 3 truck TMCC shay reproduced in 04 I get crew talk.

On my Legacy 10 wheeler If I turn the throttle down excessively I get squealling brakes... what happened to that feature?

I think the lack of standardization on these models have confused people sometimes thinking there is something wrong.

Its a GS-6 not GS-2 my mistake.  Its what you call blow down.  The dual horn feature I hadn't considered. Let me study the manual and see what it says. Makes me chuckle none the less. Plus it will pull a really small radius for such a long loco.

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!  It does have two as manaul calls it warning sounds. Or make that three with the bell.  Manual calls it a auxiliary horn. Aux1 is what calls the switch in sound.

Was confusing at first.

Sorry for the false flag.

If you hit AUX1 and hold down O you"ll probably hear refueling sounds, if you hold down three you'll hear tender water filling sound.

Stop "monkeying " around and upgrade to the Legacy command system so you have pictures of what the buttons actually do 

The manuals on new legacy stuff seems to contain less and less info regarding the TMCC commands as they relate to loco features.

I know I know!!! I'll need some more bananas for Cab-2.  In process of digesting the cost of this loco.  

More sophisticated than my older PWCS Berkshire/RS 5.0 converted to DC can, that's for sure.  RS 5.0 is nice with sweet whistle(still #1).

That was my top dog but this takes the lead.  Impressive how it responds to transformer, Cab-1 and then Cab-2. 

What did you think that was poking out of the front of the skyline casing?  

Well from something that small I expected more of a 'tweet'.

Heres SP GS4 4449  with air horn in action for comparison.

That ain't no whistle.    In fact, greater safety was the reason SP put those air horns on the GS locomotives in addition to the cab-forward; because the placement of the whistles on those locomotives were determined by SP to be less than optimal for hearing at grade crossings at speed, so the horns were a way to compensate for this.

RickO stated: The manuals on new legacy stuff seems to contain less and less info regarding the TMCC commands as they relate to loco features.>>>

Curious, what sort of manuals are included with the newer MTH powered units?  My local train store opened up a new thousand plus engine and the only instructions was a four page pamphlet, similar to a "quick start".  We didn't know if something was missing.

No, the N&W Rwy di NOT use any air horns.

The main reason for the SP installing/using air horns was the problem with fog along the Pacific coast and in the valley. Rarely did the SP Engineers EVER use the steam whistle, as the big forward facing air horn was superior for grade crossings, plus it was easy to blow. On the SP, the steam whistle was only used for crew signals, on those locomotives that had horns.

Lionel put an air horn on it's version of Pennsy's S1.  I would think the PRR did also.