BNSF 7639,GEVO with a Leslie horn

While at home,I heard what a I thought was a Leslie horn,so I rushed to 34th Ave crossing and there was a train there.Then I went to Kingsland and a manifest led by a CN went through.Thinking it was false,I was heading home when I saw a bright light beside US79.I pulled over to a crossing and heard a Leslie S5T and there was BNSF 7639.I went to Fordyce to get the video.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• BNSF
• S5T
• Leslie
• horn

[Cchrisbud813]

Awesome video! The horn is a fouled Leslie RS-5T. It's not an RS-3P; you can hear a 44 bell (RS-3P doesn't have that one).

[legsbluetrain]

@Cchrisbud813 Someone said it had 3 bells on it

[bnsf4]

an RS3L on a ES44DC???? wooooow omg that is rare as hell!

[legsbluetrain]

S5T or something that sounds like that

[mutanay77]

@Cchrisbud813 its an RS-3P according to a few horn experts i know including a horn expert on youtube

[Cchrisbud813]

@legsbluetrain Oops, I stand corrected. Yeah I also found a pic that shows a 3-bell horn. That means the horn has no official designation. My mistake.

[ble909]

Dude where they hell did they get an RS3P anyhow...

[TPWEMDRAILFAN]

@fnm9908 its definately a 3 chime looked at several good pics of it its not a 5 chime and it dont sound like a S3L or a RS3L so very well could be a rare RS3P

[TPWEMDRAILFAN]

@legsbluetrain sounds like a S5T but it only has 3 bells lookin at pics of it so Im not exactly sure what it is

[CSX5851]

@randommagnum I know NS is doing the same thing, they've got several newer units like dash 9's with brand new RS5T's, I can't remember all of the numbers but several 97 and 9800 units have them

[randommagnum]

I looked this loco up on rrpicturearchives(dot)net and it does look to be a 3-chime Leslie on top (in some photos) but it does have an S5Tish sound to it. You all may think I'm nuts, but I'd say it's an S3L with a 37 bell in place of the 31.

I hope this means Leslie is making a comeback in the horn market.  I know that's probably not the case, but I can dream, can't I?

[CSXRP]

I have to say that is an RS5T it's not hard to compare it to a RS3L it has a deeper sound to it.