Thrilled to hear my Grandaddy Clyde @ Cass - he passed before I was born.

It's creepy to think that once these whistles were on these locomotives, thundering down the mainline. Now, those locomotives are all gone, melted down into newer things, and the only piece left of them are their whistles, still haunting the land with their ghostly cries.

Imagine just talking a walk in an abounded forest...as you walk you encounter some railtracks, and as you follow the trail of tracks you stop. You hear a faint whistle as you walk by and you encounter one of those trains...

4:15 That first blast gave me a chill. The way it built up, warbled in the middle and was so long was a perfect ghost whistle.

for those who want timestamps, here you go. - 0:09 Shay 4’s 3 chime 0:57 Gainesville Midland 3 chime 1:03 DM&IR Yellowstone (228) 3 chime 1:38 Reading T1 Hooter 2:07 C&O 6 chime 2:39 B&O 6 chime 3:18 B&M 5 chime 3:45 PRR K4 3 chime 4:15 N&W Y6 Hooter 4:48 same hooter + PRR B6 Banshee 5:25 Southern Pacific GS-4 (4450) 6 chime 5:42 Reading 6 chime 6:41 GM&O 3 chime 7:12 Southern Bootleg Hooter

It's like spending a night out somewhere in Western PA all alone with nothing but the ghosts of yesterday to keep you company. I swear 2102's classic hooter sends chills down my spine every time I hear it... and boy that screaming PRR Banshee is something else

2:39 Is anyone gonna talk about how amazingly creepy that B&O 6 is? It starts out very soft and distant but grows louder as it echoes, and it has that eerie yet melancholy undertone that screams "I once pulled fast passenger trains, but now I'm little more than a memory."

4:16 a long gone beast has risen from its grave

My uncle's friend, Eric, told me about a train wreck on my uncle's property. In the winter of 1896 there was a steam engine that was late getting from Huntingdon to State College with the township of Spruce Creek along the route. On the property, there's woods and a ridge in the woods. On top of that ridge is a rusty OLD railroad. The train's number has been long forgotten since then, but the wreck resulted in no survivors, with only one whiteness. The train was going too fast when the brakes broke and the engineer blew the whistle as long as he could. The train hit a bend, derailed and plowed through the woods and the boiler exploded. Again, the wreck resulted in no survivors. The conductor, and the engineer were scalded to death by the steam, while the fireman (the guy who shoveled in the coal) was found burned to death IN the furnace. During a fire in the town hall, the records of the train wreck were burned and the story is only known because it has been passed down and told over and over again. Ever since I heard about the wreck of the forgotten train, there's something haunting about the sound of an old steam engine whistle.

Did some guided meditation with my therapist and she asked me to go to my happy place. Yeah, derpy, but as my mind wandered i realized my happy place was somewhere i could watch Shays go by and listen for these whistles. Amazing.

4:48 now that's quite the duet of whistles. . . just imagine hearing that on the walk home in the dead of night. Scary but satisfying at the same time.

That Reading 6 chime made me shiver! Sounds like a lost soul wailing, especially the first part from in the distance.

It's sad to think that alot of these whistles are from trains that are no longer around, making recordings the only memory of them that we will ever see/hear

I think 6:14 sounds like the perfect kind of whistle when someone gets angry. You know just like in the cartoons. Just that perfect pitch of a normal Reading 6 chime with that high pitch squeak like sound. You can go out in cartoon fashion with a whistle like that, have the hot red color on your skin just bubbling up like a tea kettle and end off with that whistle and I guarantee, if loud enough, no one would bully nor threaten you again.

I swear, the PRR Banshee Whistle at the 5:05 time mark said, "Woo-hoo!" like it just won the lottery! That gave me a real good laugh. LOL! But seriously, these are all amazing whistles. Can't go wrong with an SP 6. Yeah buddy!

5:05 me when I’ve struck gold

That N&W Hooter always sends chills down my spine. It is such a eerie and creepy whistle

As you walk home one foggy summer night, you stumble upon an abandoned railway line. As you look up and down the tracks they seem to be endless due to the massive wall of mist appearing at both ends of the tracks. Just before you cross them you begin to feel uneasy, the air is warm and calm so why do you feel this chill crawling up your back and that thumping in your chest getting fast and louder. Then you hear the faint sound of a whistle of a train in the distance and as you stare into the mist you can see a small yellow glare appearing in the center of it. At first you think to yourself it's just your mind playing tricks on you, but the light starts grow in size. All of a sudden you realize that nothing runs on this railway anymore. You start to feel a vibration coming from the rusted rail and than you look up and you see it, the shape of an old and disfigured locomotive.

The N&W hooter made me shed some tears as it’s very haunting and fascinating to hear

6:13 OH, Now you've done it...YOU'VE MADE ME 1930'S "FACTORY WHISTLE" FURIOUS!

I honestly was interested in hearing ghost whistles online. Since i was not born when these giants ruled the rails. I loved hearing these whistles so much that i now use them if I'm having trouble trying to sleep. Thank you for inadvertently helping me fix my sleep schedule.

When puberty hits while singing 7:54

Listening to these whistles reminded me of an old tale that my grandfather told me my grandfather used to work on a railroad he used to be a signalman he told me where other story of a train and the story goes something like this he said I was sitting in my signal box one dark and gloomy night it was raining and thundering and lightning he said I was in charge of managing trains going to and from cities in the distance between cities were very distant he said one dark and gloomy night around maybe 3:00 p.m. he said I heard a Long and lonesome whistle he said there wasn't any train scheduled passed through my signal box I was concerned and tried to call ahead to the station where the train had came from but the lines were dead due to the storm he said I kept listening and then whistle kept getting closer he said I grabbed my lantern and head out on the balcony of my switchman check which hunt above the railroad lines and try to to spot the locomotive I couldn't see it because of the long distance away and the curve was very sharp at the very end of it he said as I walked out on The trestle above the railroad I heard the long whistle getting closer I went back to my shack and tried to call ahead to the stations at the train came from and I still could not get an answer as I did this whistle got closer and closer I put the phone down and looked out my window and it looked like a big steam locomotive carrying some freight cars did it looked like a long good strain he said as the train passed the air around him was so cold and the train vanished as fast as it came he said he went back in and sat at his desk and waited for daybreak where a workman's train would come pick him up from his signal box and relieve him from his job he said ever since that day he never found out what happened to that train the end

Imagine having this played where those two abandoned Steam locomotives that are located in the forest in the state of Maine, that would probably be awesome and freak out some of the tourists and visitors while hiking to where the locomotives are located at.

Not a ghost story, but when I was a teenager, my dad lived on my great grandmothers property after my great granddad passed away. They had 40 acres and a few head of cows, so my dad moved over there to help take care of the farm. I spent almost every summer of my teenage years on that farm. Toward the back of their property, was a rail line. On some nights, my dad and I would have to walk parts of the property line to check for breaks in the fence. Almost every Tuesday at 10 PM, a freight train would pass along the rail line. You could hear its horn for miles before the cars would come rumbling by. I was always entranced by the sound of this massive freight car rumbling through the night. But, apparently there was a steam engine used for leisure tours that passed through, and on certain nights, you could hear the steam whistle, accompanied by crickets and the occasional baying of cows. It was like time travel in that moment to say the least. One of my favorite childhood memories.

Sometimes, if you walk to some abandoned tracks, tunnels, or bridges, you can hear the whistles of the long forgotten locomotives that left their sounds waiting to be heard.

Awesome. The best way to enjoy this is with your eyes closed and your imagination off its leash. Thank you for posting.

I love it when the whistle echos like there are other engines responding to them

I loved the PRR K4 3 chime! that whistle almost sounded like PRR 1361.

I tell ya, 7:30 has got to be the angriest sounding hooter i've ever heard in my life!

Imagine being a mountain man three months alone and hearing that for the first time oh what a relief it is lol

Thanks for taking the trouble to put this together. Well recorded, away from the whistles to get the best sound. Great to see pics of the loco classes as well

this video gives me goosebumps i love hearing train whistles like this

That B&O 6 chime is just spine chilling...

Can we talk about how the guys at Cass can quill literally any whistle in existence?? Imagine if they got to blow 844s or 4014s whistle

That Boston and maine 5 chime is great! it makes steam locomotives whistles sound like a musical melody

5:42 that Reading G1 was super perfect, basically sounds like it came from somewhere rural somewhere rails place railways at.

Wow. Really great stuff here, thanks for sharing!

4:11 🎵 I get those goose bumps every time 🎵

Me being a huge cass fan i love this video

Beautiful echoing whistles. Much more than just Cass

All of these whistles scream out "why did you scrap me? Why?"

Some really beautiful sounding whistles in that collection. Could imagine myself on a tree clad hillside with those sounds drifting up the valley. Would love one or two of these whistles for my loco but I don't think they would sound right on something so small!

Most of these engines are now long gone but there souls will never die thanks to the people of the CSR

If Your Not LIstening to this With Headphones, Your Missing Out On A Lifechanging Experience. These Whistles Become More than Just Whistles with headphones

Imagine it's 3:00 a.m. in the middle of the night and then you hear 490s C&O's whistle in the distance

We need to bring these whistles back at least. They're hauntingly beautiful. They'd sound incredible coming through the mountains of West Virginia especially at night when the air is dense and the sound echo's through the valley's.

It's so beautiful and peaceful and compiled beautifully💐💐👌👌👌

Good Video! i like that T1 Banshee whistle and the PRR B6 Banshee whistle

Imagine this Your out along a busy railroad mainline, no trains due, when a thick fog rolls in and it starts to rain, you hear a whistle in the distance and soon a mighty steamer rushes down the line with a passenger train and passes by you, the crew and passngers waving hi to you and then it vanishes into nothing, leaving you dazed and confused as you continue walking home wondering what that was you just saw

My Great Grandfather(My Mother's Grandfather) Used To Work On The Railroad. I still don't Know if it was C&O Or B&O, however when He Retired, He Was Given The Bell Of His Steam Locomotive, That One Of My Aunts Still Has Today. Last Year, Another One Of My Aunts Gave Me His Lantern For Christmas. Listening To These Whistles Reminds Me Of That.

paused the video when the N&W hooter whistle was playing still kept hearing the whistle and a faint chuffing noise echoing throughout the valley and everyone on both sides of the tracks is awake no joke, i nearly pissed myself when i heard that whistle and chuffing Edit: I was half asleep when I made this comment so excuse the bs

Really enjoyed the different whistles.

Just imagine…. It’s the late 1940’s in an old railroad town set on the N&W. Everyone knows everyone, and you come home after a long day in the coal mines. You sit down for supper with your family, and while you’re eating, you hear the ghostly but familiar sound of an N&W hooter. You hear the chugging and puffing of a Y6b climbing up one of the many grades on the mainline. Everyone gets up from their seat to check out the 100+ car coal train struggling up the grade. You and your family get a wave from the engineer and brakemen.

In a way these whistles sound like they’re singing to each other. It’s actually kinda sad knowing that a lot of these whistles are off engines that were scrapped.

Now this is what I needed. Thank you kindly :)

This sent chills down my spine

Nice video mate me and my friend really like it, Imagine going into an abandoned station at night and hearing this!

The Y6 was my favorite... N&W gotta represent. Awesome vid.

Memories gone by, machines of the past once large now just a fragment of what they once were reduced to a whistle, screaming out into the darkness letting people remember the times gone by when steam was king, when you could hear that banshee whistle blow out into the endless night never resting until they met their end right were they began, recycled, repurposed, years of service forgotten only remembered by the sound of shrill whistles screaming out into the mountains reminding people of times gone by.

3:19 reminds me of the old days with S&A 750 doing the circle trips outside Atlanta in the late 80s

Man, i feel bad for these locomotives. Maybe one day these locomotives will be brought back.

i really love the Reading T1 Banshee Whistle😍😍😍😍💘💘💘💘 it sounds like a GHOST TRAIN coming down the line in the darkness

Their bodies may be gone, but their spirits still linger onto the rails, doing what they were built to do

These are so chilling.

Anyone else wearing earbuds to this, gives me chills

Beautiful

4:15 N&W Hooter 5:24 Southern Pacific Sixer are my favs 6:05 RDG Sixer sounds good but Gave me chills lol.

Wanna hear the story of PRR B6 134 one of the engines in the video? Well in 1946 134 was returning home it was a misty moonlit night as 134 crossed the bridge she suddenly lost control and plunged off the side into the river below... she was never seen again, but many workmen will tell you that when the moon is full you can see 134 crossing the bridge but she never reaches the other side.... so what do you think of that?

That PRR b6 banshee whistle is bone chilling, like the ghost of that b6 is telling me to run

Oddly and strangely relaxing at some times. I'm pretty damn sure someone has already tried to do music with it. It's one goddamn hell of a material for music.

When your trying to sleep but you live 19 feet right next to the tracks and hears a *HOOTER*

Beautiful whistles that shay 3 chime is something else 😳

the lonsome cry of a steam whistle in the distance is all thats left of some of these iron giants. the weap that was once carried by a strong locomotive is now just echoing through the hills. the whistle is a steam locomotives voice but the voice is all thats left

I absolutely love the B&O 6 Chime

Hello Arkansas locomotive works! Your my favorite trainz youtuber!

I definitely like the first whistle in this video. It kind of reminds me of the whistle used in the movie "Sometimes They Come Back".

The Norfolk and Western one gave me the chills it sounds like a tyrannosaurus Rex yawning in the distance

2:38 2:40 B&O 6 Chime (my industrial whistle) and my favourite

I played the Boston and Maine 5 chime in the fog while me and a friend were walking down some old abandoned tracks surrounded by woods where I live at in Pennsylvania, I went to turn around after the whistle to say it was a joke, they were already out of sight in a nearby tree

I bought an older version of that up at Cass and it didn't have all of those Whistles...Must've done a later version..I used to ride the engines to the top...had a lot of friends up there..

That banshee and hooter, a combo in heaven for me

I've heard about a ghost train from the grand trunk western railroad, you might never know this one but a long time ago in the winter of 1951, there was a 4-8-4 steam locomotive number 6320, she was hauling a passenger train with 74 passengers and 5 crew members on board heading to Niagara falls, when the engineer spotted another train up ahead, lead by her sister 6324, the engineer applied the brakes and blew the whistle as hard as he could, but it was too late... 6320 crashed into 6324 plunging into the deep cliff, and her boiler exploded during the impact, everyone on the train died... it was the worst train wreck in GTW history, and 6320 and her train.. were never found again... many railfans will tell you.. every night on the anniversary of the tragedy, you can see 6320's ghost trying to get to Niagara falls, but she never reaches her final destination.... another thing is that if you go to the site, you can see 6320's headlight and hear her GTW 6 chime whistle.. many trains collided with the ghost of 6320 vanishing into thin air... never to be seen again.... So what do you think of this story?

The N&W and Reading Hooter and PRR Banshee whistles sounded exactly like ghost trains coming back to haunt the rails on Halloween!

I will forever adore Hancock Long Bell 3 Chimes like the one on DM&IR 228

The gm&o 3 chime would fit reading 425 since 425 is an original gm&o steam locomotive

This is beautiful to me

5:56 a reading 6 chime squealing sounds so creepy!

The Pennsy's Banshee is probably one of my most favorite whistles ever Edit: I used to have the CD this came on, it was through the Semaphore Records label. I'll have to see if I can find it and upload it.

Please can u make some more of these???? I ain’t even gon hold u, this is soothing asf

They're Here...

imagine, if you were living in an old village thats still new and when you go to sleep,you hear these whistle and you go out but when you go out theres no trains, if me HELL NAH

Love the echo effect

The last one sounds like its going through puberty

3:18 The Boston and Maine 5 chime is so beautiful sounding, I cant even explain it.

i swear if i hear this whistles i would pack my back fast and run very fast to the airport

I can remember as a child living outside of a southern Illinois town that was built around the 1830s and there were old train lines that ran through the whole town. But outside the town was where the old rail lines also ran, and on the part I lived in you had to cross a river. And down a ways you could see two pillars which were used for railroads, anyways. Every once in a while our of no where in the middle of the night, you could still hear an old steam train. Sounded like a banshee. But probably a cass 4 chime. Something along those lines. But everyone called it the ghost train because the rail lines were ripped up and it would just be in the woods you would hear it. But, I do believe during the civil war about 6-5 miles from where I lived an accident happened. I know where I live at now there is a 1850s bridge and I have read a few articles of a civil war train being attacked by rebels. And well where I moved too, yes sometimes you can hear a whistle. And we have zero steam locos go through town. So, yes in a former place I lived and now I do hear ghost trains.

5:57 never going to sleep ever again

chills down my back its 100% spooky

You should listen to the whistle of Norfolk and Western 1218. I love it.