I use to look forward to getting woken up by this sound when I was a kid in the mid '70's.
While camping at Shuswap Lake, B.C., these trains would haul through the night with their horn's blaring. Something you could hear echo around for miles. A sort of haunting yet beautiful sound at the same time.
Why can't the AC4400s and ES44s have horns that sound this good? That is sweet. It's harder and harder to find SD40-2s these days, especially SD40-2Fs (which I believe are all in storage.) Heck I remember rail-fanning when the ALCOs were being stricken from service...
@ConrailSD80MAC Nope the SD40-2Fs are still out there as far as i know they are commonly used on the cranbrook BC line mostly going to the smelters in Trail BC
They seriously need to rename Kicking Horse Pas to Kicking Ass Pass, because that's obviously what it does. Love the SD40-2's, especially with that nice ghost horn, man that sounded cool!
Thanks for poting the video - I'm planning a self drive railfan trip through BC July next year and Banff is on my list of places to go. Looks like the scenery is pretty good.
good ol doppler effect!
SKsledder 6 months ago
one person is deaf
trainguyONR 7 months ago
I love the horn on this thing! Goose bumps!
IFALCO7V 1 year ago
If you take the #1 and #5 bells off the horn of an ES44AC, you get precisely this horn... I wish the RRs would all do that!
trainiax 1 year ago
LOVE THAT HORN!
TOPWOP999 1 year ago
I use to look forward to getting woken up by this sound when I was a kid in the mid '70's.
While camping at Shuswap Lake, B.C., these trains would haul through the night with their horn's blaring. Something you could hear echo around for miles. A sort of haunting yet beautiful sound at the same time.
16vr6 1 year ago
Why can't the AC4400s and ES44s have horns that sound this good? That is sweet. It's harder and harder to find SD40-2s these days, especially SD40-2Fs (which I believe are all in storage.) Heck I remember rail-fanning when the ALCOs were being stricken from service...
ConrailSD80MAC 2 years ago 2
@ConrailSD80MAC Nope the SD40-2Fs are still out there as far as i know they are commonly used on the cranbrook BC line mostly going to the smelters in Trail BC
insanesleeper20 2 months ago
They seriously need to rename Kicking Horse Pas to Kicking Ass Pass, because that's obviously what it does. Love the SD40-2's, especially with that nice ghost horn, man that sounded cool!
bnsfmanifests 2 years ago 2
Sweet video!
FlyBikes089 3 years ago
or Redbarn!
admydragonch2 3 years ago
SD40-2F! Best CP unit ever!
trainlord11 3 years ago 4
best horn ever, nice echo
joeyoisjdoijet 3 years ago
i think i saw this train in Canmore before it passed banff
wctrain 4 years ago
i imagine this horn across mountain
waata feeling hope one day hear that in jasper or banff
patmix 4 years ago
Thanks for poting the video - I'm planning a self drive railfan trip through BC July next year and Banff is on my list of places to go. Looks like the scenery is pretty good.
ejvideos07 4 years ago
WHY IT'S K3H(Haunting Horn)
marklester01 4 years ago
That horn sounds very nice!
victorvanp 5 years ago