Question for you quillable whistle blowers

Let me guess, of the ninety one viewers so far, nobody knows what the "Whip-poor-will" is?

I can say that I honestly do not know how to answer the question because as your second post says, I do not know what the whip poor will is.

But I do like the feature. Sorry not more help.

What you can do is vary the sound and develop your own pattern to the whistle. It a fun feature especially on the Lionel Legacy Loco's

Can't say cause don't have...but the sound would be the steam engine version of what we the whip er will bird does...sorta...I have a semi scale hudson that sort of does it, as much as railsounds has it built in...

It is the call of the Whip-poor-will bird and a good steam whistle artist can make his whistle sound just like a...Whip-poor-will.

If there was a way to embed just a sound file here, I would give you an example.

ah, the beloved Whip-poor-will. for those of you who have never heard one, consider yourself lucky. there is no alarm clock that will get you out of bed like a Whip-poor-will!

I only have one Legacy locomotive, and that's the Big Boy.  And no, you can't do it with it as it's too deep for the bird.

thanks for the clarification, after listening to a video of the bird on YouTube, I will say that my only legacy Steam engine could not replicate that tone with its quill feature.  I will also add this though, each engine has its own characteristics and quill tones.  I don't know if any could quite do that bird call tones, but some might be more close than others.

 

I had a diesel the UP 8444 that had such a great whistle, it sounded the most real in its transitions between tones.  I hope lionel uses that whistle again in a future purchase of mine.

Listening to the "Whip-poor-will" call on the web, it sounds like it has three tones, high, low, medium.  Since the quillable whistle has three tones, I would think you could duplicate the sequence although the tone will be deeper than the bird's.  My Legacy steamers are in storage while I redo my layout so I can't check this out, but it should work.

CAPPilot is correct, the Legacy quillable whistle has three intensity levels. However, the pitch and tonal variation between intensity levels varies greatly with the particular characteristics of the original source whistle.

I don't think it is the tone being too deep that matters as much as the variation of the sound. A timer isn't showing up, so, you'll have to use your own watch to listen on the first one at the 24 -25 sec. mark and the second one at the 2-3 sec. mark.

 

 

I think I could pull that off with a couple of my steamers.

thanks CAPPiolot and Railsounds!  I meant to add the 3 levels in each whistle, but forgot my explanation was very weak compared to your additions.

I think there is only one steam engine that sings a pleasant song to my ears with the pull of the lever, that is the Lionel Pennsy M1b