My latest and greatest addition to my horn collection, a Nathan M5.
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@jacksonslaterelevatorraila64446 жыл бұрын
Nothing says Southern more than this my friend :)
@NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast4 жыл бұрын
Jackson Slater ElevatorRailAlarmFan except for a P5
@TheChachLINY4 жыл бұрын
Stafford Northern Railroad i wouldn’t say that
@jenniferglowacki72013 жыл бұрын
Just made my husband’s day hearing this. He grew up in the south listening to them live. Thanks for this video a d congratulations on getting such a lovely horn!
@admydragon5 жыл бұрын
Your channel is a god send for people who make hornsounds for simulators, like me!
@mafarnz5 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it! Please ask before you use one of my sound clips but as long as it’s not for profit I’m glad to help out.
@dougalexander58712 жыл бұрын
Oh, bless you! I love those horns! I especially liked the “run by”. The Doppler effect is super!
@bmwfitness2810 жыл бұрын
I always enjoy the drive bys when u get a new horn
@m3nathan5 жыл бұрын
It's taken me 17 odd years of collecting to finally tuck one of these Big Ms into my collection. It sits alongside an m3h and m3rt1...all of which make me feel a little bit closer to Bob Swanson when I look at them.
@mafarnz5 жыл бұрын
It’s a great feeling to get your first M5.
@arejay5410 жыл бұрын
Congrats, that really is a nice sounding horn!
@lotusbandicoot8 жыл бұрын
I actually used a recording of this for a train animation recently... I probably should've asked first, haha. But that's a really nice M5. M5s are my favorite horn and this is a great example of one.
@mafarnz8 жыл бұрын
+lotusbandicoot Did you give me credit?
@lotusbandicoot8 жыл бұрын
Yep!
@MidwesternRailfan4 жыл бұрын
Never thought I'd see you here Owen. Also, is it the horn used for the Erie Lackawanna train that hits the car?
@deadfreightwest59569 жыл бұрын
such sweet thunder
@mafarnz9 жыл бұрын
Dead Frt West Indeed!
@boylesterminalshops684110 жыл бұрын
it is probably off of a Southern E-Unit or a Passenger F-unit. like the SOU 6133 F7 and SOU 6900 E8 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum
@mafarnz10 жыл бұрын
The green means it was definitely a passenger unit.
@hakeemsd70m6 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful musical horn. It's sad that the M5 fell out of favor. Question, what exactly made M horns so hard to maintain? Was it their internal setups or?
@hakeemsd70m6 жыл бұрын
*?
@somekindofmagic77766 жыл бұрын
M-5s were fitted with alterable chambers which determined the notes and would force the railroads to monitor these in order to maintain the correct chord and sound volume. M-5s utilise different sized items across each bell which in turn made them far less economical to use and retain.
@hakeemsd70m6 жыл бұрын
SomeKindOfMagic sorry for the late reply, I'm just now seeing your response. Oh I see, that makes a lot of sense. Seems like it would make a nightmare for the maintenance of each horn on each Loco. Thank you.
@lionelkid45610 жыл бұрын
DUDE THIS M5 IS AMAZING!!! Your lucky to get an Ex-Southern M5... May i make this M5 for Trainz railroad simulator? Ill give you credit.
@mafarnz10 жыл бұрын
You can if you want, but its not a good recording for that purpose. Because of how much air M5's use, the sound drops off immediately after I open the valve. Loot at the audio on a analyzer program, because of how it drops off its imposable to loop the sound and get a consistent tone.
@railroadskater28967 жыл бұрын
If an M5 uses that much air, and sometimes the tone gets inconsistent, that must be the case with Winchester Western 517's M5. (Their 445 apparently also used to have an identical-sounding M5 but was replaced with a not-as-pleasant IMHO P5 years back.) This is the closest sounding M5 to WW's horns that I've found on the internet so far, a nice bright sound I practically grew up with, wish there were more of these around. At least, in spite of their little quirks, they don't foul so easily like the Leslie RS5T.
@jacobtompke867710 жыл бұрын
Cool! I'm going to be a horn collector too
@mafarnz10 жыл бұрын
Good deal! Be warned however, it is an expensive hobby, and if you are going to be picky about what you get, be prepared to wait longer and pay more to get it.
@Lightwolf33310 жыл бұрын
I like the new horn setup man.
@TommyBNSF7 жыл бұрын
You should do a breakdown of an M series horn to show what the internals look like. I don't think there's a video of that online.
@mafarnz7 жыл бұрын
+TommyBNSF I'd like to do that sometime, but I'll need to first find an M horn to take apart. My M3 is still factory seal wired, no way I'm opening that up. The M5 in this video sounds so good I don't want to chance messing up the tuning.
@paulkirkmanMYTRAINS8 жыл бұрын
I love this video !!
@Hxvn12127 жыл бұрын
l love your collection ! you have a lots of nices horn !
@mafarnz7 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@ian.whaley10 жыл бұрын
You have an absolutely fantastic sounding horn here, but that thing must really need some air because the valve isn`t being opened all of the way and I like it to sound full.
@ishirotanaka4 жыл бұрын
The Nathan Airchime M5 was the standard horn on the Western Pacific.
@mafarnz4 жыл бұрын
Indeed! As it happens the last order of M5’s built for a railroad was in the early 1980’s for WP.
@CentralIndianaRailfan4 жыл бұрын
I'm assuming the R24 stands for the 2 and 4 bell being reversed?
@mafarnz4 жыл бұрын
That is correct.
@WBDE7 жыл бұрын
Horn collectors need to be very careful of their sources when purchasing horns as theft is a very common problem. This particular horn looks amazingly similar to the one which was stolen from a Southern FP-7 at the NC Transportation Musuem
@mafarnz7 жыл бұрын
I've owned this horn since before that theft occurred.
@WBDE7 жыл бұрын
I attempted to word my comment carefully so as not to accuse you of stealing this horn. It is not possible to positively identify the stolen NCTM horn; however, steps have been taken since that time to mark each NCTM horn and to make them much more difficult to steal. I was not aware of the prevalence of horn theft until our's was stolen; and we learned a hard lesson in that replacing the stolen horn was extremely expensive. Most are not aware, nor do they care, that when a horn is stolen from a locomotive, it renders the locomotive inoperable in single-unit service until the horn can be replaced. My comment was merely cautionary that legitimate horn collectors need to be careful of it's provenance when one becomes available.
@mafarnz7 жыл бұрын
My apologizes, I got a little too uptight in my original comment. I personally make sure that I get all my horns from reputable sources, and I don't buy anything that I know was stolen. Horn theft is unfortunately a problem, and it makes legitimate horn collectors like myself look bad because people often think the only way to get one is to steal it.
@NickSilcox39 жыл бұрын
the m5 is my 4th horn, however it was damaged during shipping (1 and 2 bell has chipped) we filed a damage claim. after i repair the chips i may need new seals, where can i get them?
@mafarnz9 жыл бұрын
Tommy Aker has them, PM me if you need his contact info. Or, get some gasket material and use the old ones as a pattern to make new ones.
@brendanjr.kinnett88223 жыл бұрын
Where do I find the bell gaskets for an m5
@1000tCSX3 жыл бұрын
These have a similar tuning to the old cast p5
@mafarnz3 жыл бұрын
The M5 and P5 both play the same chord, A major dominant 7th.
@adamzap55074 жыл бұрын
Where do you find your horns, I want one and have for so long, but don’t want to pay the ridiculous prices of most places online
@mafarnz4 жыл бұрын
Mostly from other collectors.
@Manatee6935 жыл бұрын
Sounds like an E60 horn
@mafarnz5 жыл бұрын
The E60’s used a P5 that had a 0 bell in place of the 4 bell, called a P01235. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ideop6qe0rvYdoE.html
@jacobtompke867710 жыл бұрын
How much horns do you have in your collection?
@mafarnz10 жыл бұрын
***** Where/when did I say that? I said I had been collecting for 5 years, and only now got an M5. I have about 21 or 22 horns at last count.
@trainzaholic9 жыл бұрын
it sounds like a 1951/52 m5 but thats just my opinion
@mafarnz9 жыл бұрын
This M5 was originally built with 3/16 inlets, but the previous owner modified it to a 5/16 inlet. So yes, it does sound like an older model M5, and that's one of the things I like about it.
@trainzaholic9 жыл бұрын
oh ok thats pretty cool
@gordonvincent7316 жыл бұрын
Where is this shot?
@mafarnz6 жыл бұрын
On a farm road between Moscow Idaho and Pullman Washington.
@gordonvincent7316 жыл бұрын
Thanks, now I can rest easy, lol!
@Kentucky_Trainiac8 жыл бұрын
Sounds a bit like a "out of tune" old cast P5
@mafarnz8 жыл бұрын
+JakesGP35 The P5 was actually developed several years AFTER the M5, and was originally intended to sound the same notes as the M5. One major difference in the sound besides the timbre is that the P5 is on the diatonic scale, where as the M5 is not.