Nice video and SAAHC! I caught it on Train 1879 Yesterday with a friendly engineer as well!
@bnsf4884
Жыл бұрын
Should’ve been the same engineer iirc. Great guy
@ZachTheRailfannerYT
Жыл бұрын
@@bnsf4884 cool, i think it was based on what I can see from your video
@easternroutemainlinevideos6823
Жыл бұрын
Nice horn! At this point they should bring back 4105 and 4112 back onto road trains again.
@raptorfan1008
Жыл бұрын
I personally want to see 4110 get reinstated if THAT still has HEP
@raptorfan1008
Жыл бұрын
@bnsf4884, if those 3 engines still have HEP, would their reinstatement be possible?
@easternroutemainlinevideos6823
Жыл бұрын
I’m aware the 4105 and 4112 do idk if 4110 does.
@johnnysantoro965
Жыл бұрын
@@easternroutemainlinevideos6823 yes 4110 still has its HEP
@easternroutemainlinevideos6823
Жыл бұрын
That’s cool
@ZachTheRailfannerYT
Жыл бұрын
I have a Quick question about something I have noticed about 4109 and some other NJTR Geeps like 4213. I notice they have white strobe lights on tip and sometimes they flash and sometimes they don't. Do you happen to know what they mean. I think it has to do something with reverse position or does it have to do with the Engineer just flicking a switch to turn them on or off?
@bnsf4884
Жыл бұрын
The strobes are an additional warning system. They are controlled by a 3 position switch in the cab. “Manual” Always on when a headlight on the locomotive is on “Off” off lol and “Automatic” They come on when the bell comes on.
@ZachTheRailfannerYT
Жыл бұрын
@@bnsf4884 Thanks for responding! I always was curious what they ment!
@jamesf.ryaniii7918
Жыл бұрын
@@ZachTheRailfannerYT When I was in school in the 70s & 80s, the fire alarm system only had bells. In the 90s, the Americans w/ Disabilities Act was passed and one of the reqs was to add visual strobes to the fire alarm bells for people who can not hear. The white strobes on the locos serve the same purpose - to notify people who can't hear the bell or K5LA (or RS3L or SU3L) horn, that the loco is about to move. For NJ Transit engineers there does not seem to be any consistency. Sometimes the strobe operates with the bell, sometimes no strobes at all and very rarely I've seen the strobes on all the time. Are the engineers not putting the switch in the Auto or On positions or are the strobes broken? NJ also requires school buses to have white strobes. In this case it is not to indicate that the bus is about to move, but rather to indicate that a school bus is in the area and therefore children could be running to/from the bus. 4218 stopped ay my local station last night and the strobes activated with the bells. Then 4120 stopped, but the strobes did not operate.
@ZachTheRailfannerYT
Жыл бұрын
@James F. Ryan III thanks for the info about other strobe lights requirements and the disabilities act. The reason why sometimes the strobes are on/only on when the bell is on/ or always on depends on what position the engineer has the 3 position switch in as different engineers may have different preferences or forgot to change the switch which is why you don't see a consistency (the switchnis in the cab). If the switch is switched to auto that means it turns on when the bell is on. If it's switched to off it's off lol, and when in the manual position that means they will be on whenever the Locomotives headlights are on. Like you said there is also a good chance some of the Locomotives had their strobes deactivated or they broke as well. I also think a reason you may not see them on often is because I don't think the strobes light switch is of an engineers top priority to switch on or off.
@ENYoriginal
Жыл бұрын
Shame its brass bell didn't make it for the repaint a few years back....wondered if it cracked
@bnsf4884
Жыл бұрын
that bell unfortunately walked away during its repaint. I have a spare one i’m putting up.
@Wrenchhead55
Жыл бұрын
@@bnsf4884 bell that came off is the one that went on when it was done in Hoboken if you could put the talent into the job that you put into fairytale maybe you could do job there
@bnsf4884
Жыл бұрын
@@Wrenchhead55 Im just saying what I was told. 🤷🏻♂️
@raptorfan1008
Жыл бұрын
Do you plan on equipping any other engines, besides the 4101, with horns that are mostly foreign to the NJT roster? (Basically anything other than K5LAs)
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