NECR & Amtrak Trains with Fail Horns in North Amherst, MA

[morfeusz120]

Awesome horor horn!

[TheThomasSproduction]

That horn on the P42 gives me the creeps. It sounded like a whistle, not a K5LA.

[Subaruguy8508]

Sounds like freezing rain to me....doesn't take much of that to foul a horn.

[randommagnum]

Aaaoohh...FAIL! Two fails for the price of one! :D

When my brother was working as a brakeman for SP, he said that he had to sit in a helper locomotive and honk the horn when they hit a cab buzzer because the lead unit's horn was like this.

That Amtrak reminds me of someone who has been screaming all day.

[trainmaster55]

I didn't realize Amtrak has started to use steam whistle lol! Man that K5LA was bad sounding!

Alex

[MarkConductor775]

What the hell was up with that freakin' K5LA?!!

[kleetus92]

Wonder why they don't have bonnets for the horns?

[TNT314159]

Some RRs have them and some don't. I know the MBTA has them for their K5LA horns, but I think that's mainly to prevent birds and bugs from flying into them.

[kleetus92]

Yep... just seems like it would be a better idea to keep things functional in bad weather.

[nssd70m2]

There was obviously snow in both horns.

[TNT314159]

I was wondering what that white stuff was

[Weiberts]

That Amtrak has the worst horn ever. Tell the engineer to lay off it too! LOL!

[zink444]

:D LOL 55's horn sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny! %***** and faved!

[EMDFAN1988]

Very nice video.

[MsTNT0304]

Hahahhaa

[jph0917]

That sounds more like sleet hitting your camera.

[TNT314159]

There was rain hitting my umbrella which I was using to shield the camera. But the two horns were unmistakably bad.

[acelaboy123]

total fail at the end

[tommyrail67]

cool necr with double 8s

[TNT314159]

The 8530 is pretty common on this train, but the 8565 was seen once here and hasn't been seen since.

[Railfan108]

lol, one ditch light

[coryrusch]

That Amtrak just had snow packed in it, it was just letting air out. It would sound different if it was fouled. Nice video though!

[GenesisSanctuary]

Nice vid. Those are some pretty screwed up horns. #90's K5LA sounded more like a whistle than a horn.