The Frisco Train Whistle

[Junior]

Whew...eat another piece of that SDC purchased taffy you have stashed in a drawer that you have been hiding from the kids and chill! Ha!

[treed]

Maybe I can shed some light on this whistle thing.  I've been an engineer on the Reader Railroad and the ES&NA in Arkansas.
* Stop (brakes applied)
**  Moving forward (in relation to lead locomotive)
*** Backing up (in relation to lead locomotive)
****  Need signals from train
Multiple short blasts means some sort of trouble.
--*-  Approaching grade crossing
- Approaching station

I realize SDC uses variations of the standard signals. There are numerous other signals, but these are the most common.
Tony

[sanddunerider]

funny rube!!!  \

Now if you could work in the parts about the brakes!!?  and the trees???

Maybe you could charge for the ride,,,,>?>??

[Trevlyn]

Just looking at really old threads on here that contain train phrases, lol.
Silver Dollar City's whistle code is like this:
2 short blasts: release brakes, proceed forward
3 blasts: reverse
1 blast: acknowledgement when shoving backwards, conductor signal, etc
2 long blasts are used on most grade crossings on the FSDL route. The engineers like blowing their whistles in fancy ways, which may sound confusing to untrained ears.