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Originally Posted by Slickcraft
The air horn is still available. Recently when the Mount was between Welch and Belknap Point, 5 short blasts were issued. A slow moving barge was about 1/2 mile ahead and in line with the Mount's heading.
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Is it really an air horn? When Jack Miller built the mini-Mount, he had recordings of the Mount's horn and sent them to a horn manufacturer to get an exact duplicate sound. His was an electro-mechanical device, wasn't it? That's quite a pipefitters dream to run a pipe from the engine room/compressor and air storage tank to the top of the wheelhouse, although that must be what they had when the Chateguay was built, same with bell signals to the engine room, since they did not have transmissions but had to stop/start to change from forward to reverse.