Lecture on train whistles and air horns by Robert E. Swanson

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Title: Lecture on train whistles and air horns by Robert E. Swanson
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Subject: Railroads -- United States -- History, Railroads -- Canada -- United States, Whistles
Description: Robert E. Swanson of the British Columbia Railway, an inventor of air horns for locomotives, gives a talk on the history of North American train whistles. Swanson plays recordings of train whistles during the program. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado. *The first few minutes of the recording suffer from poor audio quality.
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Date: [1967]-, January 27, 2023
Type: Voice Recording
Format: 1 MP3 audio file (1:00:47) digitized from source material (Interview 590: Audiocassette 1); No transcript.
Identifier: mesa:1767, : OH 590 Swanson, Robert E.
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Language: English
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Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/?language=enlocalorganization:2Mesa County Librariesorganization:1040Museums of Western ColoradoThis item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). For rights management and/or licensing questions, please see http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ or http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/copyright-law Other inquiries may be sent to the Lloyd Files Research Library at the Museums of Western Colorado: https://museumofwesternco.com/contact/ Or Mesa County Libraries: https://mesacountylibraries.org/aboutus/contact/English

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Lecture on train whistles and air horns by Robert E. Swanson

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