Pere Marquette 1225 Polar Express Steam Engine

[611classJ]

Its true the nkp berks had a certain whistle and the pm berks was a little higher and the C&O kanawahs had hooter whistles but i must admit the steamboat type sounds good on 1225

[jimbodeek]

@KenMacMillan That's right. On normal days, the Polar Express is just a normal train.

[joevil2025]

this train was perfect for polar express, its blow downs look less like jet of steam and more like it's riding on clouds

[Megahammerheadshark]

Thats a big steam engine! I thought the train was a dubble header!

[clubfoote1960]

I almost cried because I never see trains like that running anymore.

I was a little kid we would go to Missouri to see my grandparents on aa old train.

Where you could see the conductor in the old uniform with the hat. and the waiters in their uniforms too.

We got lucky and got to meet the conductor and go see the train being operated and the coa lor wood being put into the boiler.

[KenMacMillan]

I guess it's not heading to the North Pole until Christmas eve.

[8010cookie]

ITS JUST LIKE THE POL-EX

[Dinosorable]

@8010cookie It is the Polar Express.

[trusstingod]

It's a huge breathing beast!!

[bnsfben1]

I really wish that was 1225's real whistle!

[Dinosorable]

@bnsfben1 What do you mean? If it wasn't 1225's real whistle, how could it have been blowing it?

[Jib228]

@Dinosorable They swap out whistles from time to time.

[Dinosorable]

@Jib228 What do you mean?

[Jib228]

@Dinosorable They have different whistles off of different locomotives that have been scraped or are not running. They take one off of 1225 and put one of these other ones on. There is no "Berkshire Type" whistle. Different railroads would put different whistles on their locomotives. PM Berks sound nothing like C&O Berks (Kanawhas) because both roads had picked different whistles.

[Dinosorable]

@Jib228 Well, whatever whistle is on a train makes it the train's real whistle. But did you mean you wish that whistle was 1225's original whistle?

[Jib228]

@Dinosorable Ture. But what BNSFBen1 and I mean is that we'd like to see the original whistle on her. And Id like to know which one it is. I have a Berk in HO, O and in a train sim that I would like to reprogram them all to have 1225's whistle.

[Dinosorable]

@Jib228 Oh.

[736berkshire]

This whistle kicks ass!!! Doesn't get better than this!

[Wonka275]

@736berkshire Amen, bro! :D

[ThomasRivette]

Agreed, that whistle sounds too much like 844's whistle.

Now if it were to sound like 4449's whistle, I would like it then.

[Sandguy99]

The damn thing is alive!

[Strasburg1991]

4449

[acdc9902]

There is more than one of each type of whistle out there. Just because it sounds like 611 dosn't mean that its the same whistle. It sounds like a hancock and there are plenty of them out there.

[DanielVolker]

But this really was the 611's whistle.

[Strasburg1991]

what whistle did 1225 have all the time before 611's whistle was added

[toki91]

Hey, what about that kid dancing on the train!!!

[trainboy94]

4449 had two whistles once.

[Strasburg1991]

i remember that. it was in the movie silver steam

[VillageIdiotPro]

it still does.

[trainboy94]

The other one is an air horn, it does not have two steam whistles anymore

[Strasburg1991]

the whistle for 611 is on the left side at 17 seconds right?

[1225truth]

too bad they let idiots run it. How could they let the fire go out?! Twice!?!

[pmsteamrailroading]

Well let's see you do it!

[Strasburg1991]

can you blow the two whistles at once?

[Strasburg1991]

no you were right that was from N&W 615. how do you get more than 1 whistle ontyop of an operating steam locomotive?

[lennyos]

more than one hook-up.

check out cpr 2816, it's like that.

But i think this engine just has two to be interchanged

[tonypilot]

it's got Two whistles

[russvenlos]

Yes the second whistle is from NW 614

[russvenlos]

Sorry that should have been NW 611