Horn Horn Horn, The Best Yet?

[NSalex12]

The engineers in Freeport seem to love to blast those horns!!!!

[railroadfaninohio]

Very nice. I wish that they would use more horn here in Newark Ohio...

[southern4501isawesom]

only reason the horn stopped was because there want any more air in the compressors.

[msk578]

I think the engineer needs to lay on the horn longer for the next crossing 2 miles away. I don't think everyone in a 5 mile radius heard it!

[MEKAYJIMMYNATHE]

scary horn!

[ChaosDemonwolf]

i agree. I live in the UK...we have 'nothing' like this here. all level crossings are gated, but with no warning horns. good video, well done.

[pdlsteeler1]

That GP-38 in the middle unit is an ex- Wisconsin Central unit. Nice one!

[ETScott2012]

If I was a Locomotive Engineer, I'd lay on the horn as well. Dumb cars wanna speed through crossings and cause accidents. It'll let them know who is really in charge.

[steriogram007]

wonder if anyone heard him?

[coolman1558]

wow no one tries to beat the train in this town surprise surprise

[19gerike87]

What a looooong train... o.o Here in Hungary, the trains far more shorter... Much accidents...? Maybe...

I would like to see one like this one day... But always... I make bed in the car and sleep while that goes off. :)

[SD457500]

Nice trailing units, I wish those WC 69XX series were still around.

[NSalex12]

Damn! The engineer is either crazy or he fell asleep on the horn!

[gaycowboy31]

I cant stand the fact that the will ruin yet another good railroad and hell now that they have EJ&E damn whats next

[gtafan2006]

@gaycowboy31 they have the ic&e now too i think they come all the way to sioux city iowa seen a few dash 9's on the bnsf line headed into town and going across the misouri as well

[gaycowboy31]

@gtafan2006 the CN didnt but the IC&E i thought the CP did

[gtafan2006]

idk but i know ive seen some cn trains and a few locos from a railroad i have never seen before. just too bad i dont have the sony webbie right now my sister borrowed it and now i cant film all the cool trains that go by here. just a few days ago i saw some wierd lead locos on the bnsf from some railroad ive never seen then the day after there was a switcher on a flatbed truck that went under the bnsf bridge. looked like a narrow gauge one had a wierd muffler on it.

[cd949604]

143 frightcars

[DeltaPhi79]

And I say if you want the best horn ever, you listen to an E2-B1.

[DeltaPhi79]

I'm a total dumb**it with train horns so... Is this a K5LA? -hides in case I'm wrong-

[Cchrisbud813]

@DeltaPhi79: The horn here is a K-3H. One clue is that the name of a Nathan or Leslie horn denotes the horn's number of bells (and thus the number of notes). Also, I really like the E2-B1 as well. I wish there were some in service.

[DeltaPhi79]

I honestly can never tell the different between the K-(insert numbers and letters here) horns. Usually not with the others either. And I only know of one E2-B1 that is (or WAS) in service. m3ohwell has a video of one. I think the title was "Rare Westinghouse Horn".

[Cchrisbud813]

@DeltaPhi79: I didn't understand either, but looking into it usually does the trick. About m3ohwell's video: believe it or not, that E2-B1 is actually his own, not the railroad's; he had it placed on the locomotive so he could film the train using it.

[Cchrisbud813]

Whoops, I worded the first part wrong. I mean that looking it up helps; it's how I got used to recognizing the horns.

[RailFanRick]

Counted 142 Cars on that baby!

[GreatSaradomin]

i got 146

[Subaruguy8508]

HELL YEAH!! Thats the only way you can be sure....well hope your sure no one is going to get in your way....got to make certain they hear you coming! I hate the thought of quiet zones....you hit someone and the get killed then they sue the RR cuz you didnt blow the horn.....whats up with that?! Great catch btw!

[8534951]

LONG HORN

[Zebrails]

CN-GT-WC... on the IC

[lydia308]

Ah what a sweet sound. Like music to my ears, when I hear one rolling down the tracks by the house I like to go outside and listen to them until I can't hear them any more.

[railfan95]

I don't think this one is the best. That horn horn horn with the IC SD70 is pretty hard to beat!

[swudeft]

how many wagons were there?

I lost at 56 ^^

[metroareatransit]

RUN LITTLE CARS RUN FROM THE TRAIN LOL

[lespaulguy32]

@metroareatransit lol

[JuryMillSnowJunky]

hahha.... horn porn!

[trainguyONR]

lol nice

[lespaulguy32]

@JuryMillSnowJunky lol

[danwat1234]

@JuryMillSnowJunky Thank goodness I just bought a 2,000 GIgabyte hard drive for cheap, finally have enough space for H0rN Pr0n!

[crocos2]

142 wagons not including the 3 locomotives... Thats a long train...I almost got crosseyed.

[compdude957]

yeah i counted 2 just 2 make sure u were right and u were. thats a longgg train

[ACLTony]

O.K, I just read back over the comments. Mallmaven stated that it's a Nathan K3H. Thanks :-)

[ACLTony]

Nice! Not certain but the horn sounded like a Nathan K5L or K5H. Anyone know?

[akshona]

I love the guy in the car that pulled the U-Turn. He said fugettaboutit and went back home for another cup o coffee!

[Lehnerd57]

Boy if no one heard that horn at crossin then they just deaf...and i like the old poles left run down beside tracks many many years that use be power n stuff before change over n remove them

[seminole32]

that was cool. thanks for making this video.

[IsaiahWEJackson]

Haven't seen a GT in years. Sounds like the new GEVO engine horns. It's one at the top of the food chain

[ic6071]

Yeah, Grand Trunk ROCKS in my opinion.

[IsaiahWEJackson]

I stand corrected. It doesn't sound like the GEVO.....still nice though.  I think NS used some of those horns though. Grand Trunk used to run through Lima, Ohio on the old Detroit Toledo & Ironton RR!!! I'll get one for my model train set someday. Thanks for the Freeport footage.

[computersmasher]

was this from a diffrent angle some of the buldings are missing

[TravelingColeberrys]

BNSF Isnt Aloud To Honk Over By Sun City This Old People Town By Us So Just For Fun They Honk All The Way Through

[airminnesota]

I hope he sounded the horn long enough. lol

[ic6071]

lol

[pukilupukster]

oh man that is sweet!

[HamiltonOhrailz]

love that horn and the old-style gates! Is CN the only rr who puts the website name on their locos?

[theup3985]

No, Union Pacific also puts their website on their locos (look below the cab next time you see a UP unit).

[eddieg749]

yea i like that style of horn its the same as cps horns or most good video

[KDET10]

Haha if I was the conductor I`d turn to the engineer and be like "OK OK OK THEY FRIKIN GET IT!!!! TRAIN COMING, STOP, THEY GET IT lol thats not a Nathan P5 is it? sounds a little different

[tipdrip215]

no. it sounds different because its canadian tuned. probably a K3H, but im american and not good with canadian horns. the nathan horns that have A on the end of their names mean they are american tuned. K5L would be canadian tuned as opposed to an american K5LA and so forth.

[AlreadyRight]

looks like run-down, like everything in Americas backcountry

[ic6071]

what's wrong with old buildings?

[TrainFriends]

Moving along please! Here comes the big boss engine, everyone must hear me! Impressive vid.

[UPTRAIN]

That's why you move away from the railroad tracks. It's not rocket surgery.

[saintjohnrailfan]

Rocket Science, actually. But i'm sure rocket surgery still exists somewhere.

[RosyB9]

Great horn and video! One of the things I love best about watching freight trains is the funky old buildings that are often trackside. They add to the atmosphere and this one is really industrial-looking. Nice.

[ic6071]

THanks! Yeah the Freeport downtown is filled with a lot of old buildings. There used to be a huge battery factory just to my right at the crossing.

[RosyB9]

I love the old buildings and find a certain kind of haunting beauty in them. :-) These modern boxy buildings can't hold a candle to them!

[JeepGuy80]

I bet that battery factory moved to Mexico or China like the rest of our countries big corps are doing eh?

Nice video - Thanks :) 5 *'s

[ic6071]

lol yeah probably. A little bit of interesting history on that factory: after the knocked the building down, they were digging to buid a new park there, and found tons of batteries burried in the dirt. It's also possible that they dumped waste into the river that is just behind me in this shot. No problem, and thanks for the nice comment/rating!

[JeremiahTrane]

Wow...That was sweet!!!!!!!!!!

[BNSFman08]

man that`s a COOL crossing

[irishmanO1]

awesome video and sweet horn

[MitchAceSpadez]

i hear that every day preety much well sence i moved there isnt as many its mainly Cp GP380's around here preety slow but i went in 1 at 1 point.

[trainboi21]

the bells never shut off once the crossing arm is all the way down.....at least where I live anywayz....seems strange.

[tipdrip215]

its different depending on govt. legislation or depending on what the railroad decides to do. i know in the west they want the bells ringing at all times but here on the east coast our crossing bells shut off once theyre all the way down

[wctrain]

i here that horn type a lot in Canada

[rolls283]

ya, Isn't amazing how far they echo? I live 5km away from a crossing in a large city, and yet, every morning, i still hear it! It sounds so amazing!!!

[wctrain]

if ya look at my waubaman lake video(taken at the crossing i started watching trains) you can hear the trains there every 20 minutes just giving at the horn.

[hfkjehgufihgiufewi]

my ears are still ringing

[Andrewsaxamophone]

Do you know how many trains run on that line a day?

[ic6071]

Well here is the daily run down:

-One EB road freight

-One WB road freight

-A local that goes just East to Rockford on Mon, Wed, & Fri. Leaves in the late AM comes Back early-mid PM

The same local that goes West to Lena, and sometimes just east of Freeport on Tue, Thurs, Sat, local does not work Sun. Usually leaves late AM gets back early PM

- About 3 Xtrra Ethanols each way a week

- Maybe 1 or two more additional xtras a week

[Andrewsaxamophone]

Ok, thank u very much!

[mallmaven]

Standard CN Horn K3H

[Reichsabwehr]

This is great! Much better than the horns on german locos!

[petro062]

Great job on the video.Thanks for the great video. I think the horns are in E Minor.Keep up the good work.Trains rule.

[trainboi21]

i love that horn

good train

good video.

[Jimmy146]

that was great. good video. very terrific!

[landon619]

that's a great horn but it's not touching the K5LA,RS5T,or the P5....TRUST Me.

[Linkdude678]

The Leslies are unbelievable, K5LAs are always pleasers and P5s certainly are great.

[k750iL]

hey...can u give me the link or how to search for those types in (k5LA, RS5T) Thanks!! Love those train horns!!!!

[trainzrok]

try ebay they have everything, or hornblasters dot com, but there very expensive

[ATributeToBCRail]

Great video! All I can say is wow! Thanks. :D

[jaydude28]

yeah i saw a 50 second clip of this from the other side where that abdoned building is, very long and loud horn.

[fafnir242]

BEAUTIFUL! That is an absolutely outstanding horn. I wish we got more of those around where I live. I could fall asleep listening to that.

[Franckocp]

cn gp38, cn sd70 ou dash 9 ?

[zackman86]

the horns remind me of some of the horns you hear on the Norfolk Southern's. Sometimes when I'm stopped at tracks when a train is coming by, and its a NS, the horn sends chills down my back because its cool to hear it.

[llokuta]

I do believe that horn is a K5H. That is the government regulated air chime configuration of Candaian engines. Something to do with a scientific study of pitch and sufficiently audible decible levels to provide sufficient warning to cars.

Several NYS&W B40-8's had them by happenchance, but 20 of them were returned to CSX and are numbered in the 5300 or 5400 series; the other 4 are now on the P&W as PW 4001-4004.

[o00o00ozy]

Lots of horn! Love it, but no way, Conrail SD50's have the best horns. 142 cars like this is probably no more than 9,000 feet, average for todays standards. The longest I have ever seen was 12,841 feet in length (2.43 miles), 138 automotive cars.

[furryfurball1221]

REALLY!?

[furryfurball1221]

wow iam subscribing...nice shots! ;>

[ic6071]

Thanks! We have a switcher here in Freeport nicknamed the FURBALL!

[marklester01]

From it's sound view point,i'd say it's a K3H,Not K3l!

[mallmaven]

NOw THATS THE BEST K3H IVE EVER HEARD!

[ghfdfhfdndxhcg]

My God, 142 freight cars! :O

[GEES44DC]

142 cars is pretty average, yet maybe even short for today's standards/

[CSXSD70M]

Yeah..the horn is cool!  very nice video

[cnnw3929]

The Canadian Tuned K3L on the CN is much better than the common K3LA on the Union Pacific.

[skyman2002]

How many trains go by this spot a day? Thank you very much, i am subscribing!

[ic6071]

Thanks for your interest! There are two road freights, M338 which comes between 7p.m. and 10 p.m. and M337 which comes between 4 and 7 am. Then there is a local that works every day but Sunday.

[Hiei2k7]

Can someone say CANADIAN POWER-SHOT with the HORN????

Probably not enough trains per day for the city to raise a stink about the downtown Horns. After all, for a while back in the 90s, when the horn wasn't as often as it is now, there were a number of Car vs Train hits. Nowadays it's not as bad. still though, those Chicago Centrals with smashed up GRAB IRONS!

[LanceCampeau]

what a sweet sound.... send me a sample of that in .wav format pls... w w w_lancecampeau_c o m... check out my train vids too....

[dutchtrainmanserie22]

Amazing video, very good video,amazing horn sound,long train 142 Railroad cars(Wagons).

[KCR58]

I love horns !! Yeah !! Keep up .

[KRG2645]

Swweeeet horn, and it was from a Dash 9-44CW. I like that kind of engine.

[trainsmaniac2009]

Nice vid Adam! That WAS a nice horn.

[fxe4500]

wow!!! nice horn!!

[TrainmasterCurt]

Not bad, you should check out some of my videos with GP9 horns