Answers for D500 [from now CLOSED Glenn's Train Shop]

One more question...for ALDOVAR....

Where are the really good train shops in the Akron area?

Thanks,

Lou N

Lou N posted:

Glenn was quite a character but I must say he took pride in his military service.  I visited his shop one day on the way home from an Ohio Air Base in my full dress blues.  He always offered me great respect from that day on.

On the subject of the flaming Cuyahoga River, I was returning home from intel training at Lowery AFB in Denver just after the fire.  When checking out thru the medical section I was asked where I was headed and I said Cleveland.  The medic says roll up your sleeve.  I said why?  He said:  you're getting a yellow fever shot. Seriously, I have the shot cars to prove it.

On the subject of the odd whistle in the Hudson, it is a phase shift oscillator.  A digital method of making sinusoidal tones.  This circuit tried to duplicate the two tones of the blower whistle (440Hz and 746Hz).  It gave more of a bell sound because of the ring off of the tones.

Okay Alan, its yours to close.

Lou N

 

 

Well, now - interesting. Yellow fever in Cleveland? I would have never expected that. Where I'm from (Mobile, an old seaport on the Gulf Coast) we indeed used to have trouble with malaria (and I suppose, yellow fever) in the 19th Century, but the Midwest? Huh.

If they could, people would leave the city proper and go to their "summer homes" on the Eastern Shore, or to the western "highland" suburbs of Spring Hill and the others - a whopping 250 feet above sea level, but high enough that the mosquitoes were less plentiful. The businessmen in town on the Mobile River, who just could not leave, belonged to the "Can't Get Away Club".

Per the 785 whistle - I should put the old boy on the track just to hear that "whistle" one more time.