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From: "Randy Gordon-Gilmore" <zephyrus@r...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 2:05 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Silver Streak, was Re: Pioneer Zephyr History
> At 05:45 PM 5/10/2001 -0000, haywarb@b... wrote:
>
> >The video of RKO's "The Silver Streak" is offered for $21.95 by
> >Trainfans.com. (www.trainfans.com/catalog/vintage3.shtml).
>
> I'd be interested in learning what the tuning of the original air horns
> was. "Silver Streak" has (what seems to me to be) a hokey high-pitched
> whistle.
>
Good point, Randy . . . I've wondered about that myself. It *may* have been
the sound department, using a dub off of a PE Hollywood car passing the
studio . . . but OTOH, the original configuration of the PZ had the twin
horns inside the intake vent . . . . was it set up to use one in town and
the other in the countryside? There are lots of things I haven't been able
to find out about the experimental life of those first 8 months.
Marshall
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