JUST WOW!!

Beautiful locomotives...carrying some of the worst-sounding whistles I have ever heard! 

Can't decide if they sound more like a semi-defective air raid/tornado siren or me blasting on my recorder from 4th grade music class.

I'll have to show this to my wife! She moved from Thailand to Delaware in 1988 and would probably be surprised to see them still operating!

Yea thats the downside.Sounds like a horn with a birds nest stuck in it.

Thats true the sound from that whistle is a crime.Wonder who came up with that god awful whistle?

Whooo, boy, those whistles are piercing!  But have kind of a "continental flair" to them. 

Possibly the most beautifully restored locomotives I have ever seen. Guess Thailand has become sufficiently enriched to support fan trips. Nice for them, but probably at our expense, with the off-shoring of our manufacturing to countries like Thailand. Guess soon we will be hanging on for dear life on the roof tops of passenger cars, and the Thai's will be rocketing around on bullet trains.

    Possibly the worst steam whistle I ever heard was on a Mexican 4-8-4. It sounded like a monotone Whoopi Cushion.  In the steam days in Mexico, locomotives were assigned to indivdual crews and they decorated them to their distinct taste.

     Those locomotives look like Japanese power. Wonder if they were consructed in Japan?

They have rail-fanning, just like we have. Everyone loves a train.

Gary

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Great looking steam engines. But please enough with that sound or what ever that was.

I have heard worst whistles from a MTH and Lionel Pennsy Loco

Double-heading, yet running back to back...that's interesting.

Rob,

     Yes I noticed how they were double headed too, back to back like diesels. Never saw that before maybe it is a over seas thing.

 

Rich,

     Do you have any experience with steam engines double headed tender to tender?

 

Tim,

    Watch what you say about Pennsy whistles! We take that stuff real personal.

 

JohnB

more like the GG1 which is basically back to back ten wheelers (PA class G).

Gentlemen,

    I have heard the Thailand Train whistles from the Jingle, once you hear one, it 's like the AK47, you never forget the sound.  Rich is correct worst Whistle on a Train ever created.

PCRR/Dave

Yes, By Nippon Sharyo. BTW, I like the whistle on them and the reason that SRT doublehead them tender to tender is there isn't any turntable left in the network   

 

I went ahead and watched the video on youtube. There are dozens of related videos from Thailand Rail, all with a title sequence that reminded you of a childern's show opening. The engines, cars, stations shown were very clean and maybe over decorated. 

SRT-guy:  I noted in your profile that you reside in Thailand. Are you Thai or an ex-patriated US citizen?     When were these locomotives built?  Thank you for your response to my question!!

I'm Thai. The loco was built in post WWII era for war reparations 

The loco was built in post WWII era for war reparations 

 

Interesting!    Are you an O Scaler in Thailand? What protoype do you follow?

That whistle sound reminds me of a Lionel whistle-in-tender that I used to have.

 

I have taken an excursion out of Steamtown that was double headed using their Pacific and Mikado about 10 years ago and they were double headed both engines pointed in the same direction. Also have watched thousands of videos of the PRR and other roads and never saw two steam engine double headed tender to tender. Was wondering if there is a legit reason for that. From the Thailand video it makes all the sense in the world just like multi unit diesels where each of the end units face opposite directions they do not have to be turned around using a turntable or wry. Smart very smart.

 

JohnB  

taking a closer look at the tandem steamers (YouTube, full screen), at one of the worst sounding clips (about 0:30 in), you can see as both locomotives pass, both locomotives are blowing their whistles (the whistle is in the same cluster as the safeties, but you can definitely pick out the steam exhausting from the whistle in sync with the sound).

 

i thought this might be the case, because they don't only sound shrill which would be bad enough, but the combined tones make quite an inharmonious wail.

 

cheers...gary

Aren't there speed limitations when running a steam engine in reverse? I do complement them on the nice clean running stacks.

 

That depends on the trailing truck design.

I noticed these locos have pilots on the rear of the tenders, so I wonder if they were designed to operate bidirectionally.

Kinda reminds me of the Lionel Postwar Airwhistle