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#301

Some of you may know a friend of mine has a beautifully restored 1916 Case tractor. Today they had a whistle battle with 4014. Note this was not a planned slow down point but who can resist a whistle battle??
The whistle on the tractor is a PRR K-4 and that’s father and son onboard. Unfortunately the K-4 took over the volume but I was asked to get video of the boys. So to me, I thought it was a good angle position but what the heck do I know I’m just a stupid :rooster:!!!

I congratulate my friend and his son and Dave I was honored to be there. ONE HELL of a father son moment!

The you tube description pretty much says the rest.

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#302

Funny I have an Amish friend who welcomed the 2014 with a whistle from the 2102 … :wink:

#303

That’s amazing stuff, Rooster, wow…

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#304

Awesome!!! Wish I could have been there.

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#305

I had 2 cameras that day and finally off loaded the other camera. It has much better sound and you can hear the little horn on “Marco Polo” (green heavyweight on the end). Honestly it did a much better job sitting there on the tripod running on it’s own. It ain’t fancy video but it focused on the father/son team and their tractor.

Other video from that camera earlier in the day.

:rooster:

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#306

Video today on Facebook shows a freaking idiot ( nicest word I can use here) standing on the tracks as the the BB approaches , the engineer actually stopped the train , motioned at the idiot to come over to him , then have home a 1 minute ass chewing , while people around applauded , then took off!

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#307

I saw that! Ed really let the guy have it. It seems he stopped the train just to yell at him. I got a good laugh out of it.

#308

After seeing Pete’s post, I looked yesterday for the FB clip, but couldn’t find it. Can you or Pete put up a link?

Some vicarious A$$-chewing (on the delivery side) sounds potentially therapeutic.

#309

https://www.sharedots.com/locomotive-engineer-scolds-photographer-for-standing-on-tracks-71864.html

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#310