425 Whistle on Tunkhannock Trips

superheater · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:54 pm **Posts:** 2606

I knew there was a different whistle on 425 on the Tunkhannock to Jim Thorpe Trips, does anybody know where it was from. It sounded a little like the Lehigh Valley whistle used in 1995 or 1996.

Dave Albright · **Posted:** Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:21 pm

I read on another board that the whistle is from BC&G #4. But I've yet to hear who owns it.

Schuylkill Valley · **Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:18 pm

The whistle is own by Shane Fredrickson, which was the engineer for most of the trips.
Here's video from that trip.
Reading & Northern "Steam On The Rails" Part One 7-12-13-08
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CvMOGfFOszo

Len.

Dave Stephenson · **Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:16 pm

Gotta love the unique bell action!!

Schuylkill Valley · **Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:23 pm

The bell is off a Reading G-3, the head light is off a Lackawanna 4-8-4, and they had the number plate made special.

What do you think of the video?

Len.

steamerdon · **Joined:** Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:45 pm **Posts:** 68

That wasn't that whistles first journey through the Lehigh Gorge. It was on most excursions run by Quakertown & Eastern Railroad in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The locomotive was Q&E #4 (ex-BC&G #4), a 2-8-0. Several trips wre run through the gorge on their way to destinations such as Coxton, Pittston and Wilkes-Barre. Most trips originated on the Lehigh Valley Railroad in Bethlehem. Other Roads used included the Reading, Lehigh & Hudson River and Penn-Central.