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Title: Dash 8-40CW Air Horn
Post by: golf1343 on June 30, 2006, 01:40:42 PM

I have a quick question, what Air Horn was used on the NS Dash 8-40CW's.

Thanks in Advance

Title: Dash 8-40CW Air Horn
Post by: cmherndon on June 30, 2006, 08:35:56 PM

The C40-8W's were delivered to Conrail with the standard Leslie RS-3L. Most former Conrail locomotives still retain this horn, although it's not uncommon to see...er...hear this horn on other NS locomotives due to horn swapping (e.g. a malfunctioning K5LA on a Dash 9 gets replaced with an RS-3L).

Here are a few links that might be useful to you...

Leslie SuperTyfon at Trainhorns.net (http://trainhorns.net/leslie/supertyfon.html)

Leslie S-3L at Five Chime Consultants (http://atsf.railfan.net/airhorns/s3l.html)

Title: Dash 8-40CW Air Horn
Post by: ssw9662 on July 09, 2006, 02:33:00 PM

Also, almost all of the C40-8W's in the 8420-8449 number series I've heard have P3's, but I don't think they were delivered with them.

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NS System Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: golf1343 on June 30, 2006, 01:40:42 PM