quote:I had always thought that the "whistle" on this and the 0-8-0 tender locos was actually supposed to be an air horn?
quote:A lot of industrial locos had these late in their lives as a true steam whistle is harder on the ears and much louder than needed.
Perhaps, but it sure doesn't sound like anything I recall hearing on small steam switchers back in my early years, and the sound just doesn't "fit" the locomotive (for lack of a better term). Still, I don't use the whistle feature all that often, and I never use it on this locomotive (I have five of them), so it's really not a major deal-breaker.
