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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Zephyr Bell
From: lyle dowell <slyone@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 21:04:31 -0500
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Ralph W. Brown, Jr. wrote:
> To All:
>
> A friend of mine has been working with a sound file for a sound decoder in a 
> HO scale Concor Pioneet Zephyr.  The sound file he found has a unique bell.  
> He describes the bell as one similar to a fire alarm.  I haven't heard it, 
> but was wondering if anyone knows if the real thing had a bell different to 
> the bell of modern diesels?
>
> R.W. Brown, Jr.
> Galesburg, IL
>   

Yep, it did. Charlie V can give you better details (I learned this fact 
from him myself), but to make this new, fantastically fast locomotive 
more noticeable, a fire alarm bell was used in place of the usual bell 
of the time. If you think about it, the typical bell was probably a 
steam locomotive bell, which would not have much of presence at times at 
the higher speeds the train was capable of. I think it was simply the 
concern of the high speeds it was capable of led to some greater 
concerns about making it 'visible'.  Maybe it was also viewed as hi-tech 
for the time, given that the loco' itself was very hi-tech in itself.


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