Re: Eight wheel Caboose on C&Sng?

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Eight-wheel-Caboose-on-C-Sng-tp488p1928.html

Consider the caboose whistle as a bell for the caboose.  The few times I used it, the little whistle would be used intermittently, as Rick states, to warn pedestrians or vehicles that the train was backing toward them without a headlight.  While backing through a grade crossing, the whistle would be used for the typical - - o -- sound.  While NG trains were short, the times we backed up on the RI, caboose first, the engineer might be 15 to 80 cars back and couldn't see the crosssing, so the rear end crew was responsible.

I think we may have discovered a new feature for the "sound car" decoder, if it doesn't already have it!