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Okay, I am very annoyed with someone commenting on this new video that Walter's new Baldwin whistle is a 5 chime: FYI, Baldwin never made manufactured 5 chime whistles whatsoever! It's a Baldwin 5-inch diameter 3 chime whistle! This annoying mouth-running user needs to get his words correct! 😠

I think that's the new front driving wheels, because the old one has a chipped-off counterweight. Note: This is NOT my photo. It's on Flickr by H. Michael Miley.

Look who's behind Southern 722's driving wheels:

It looks like Walter got his red cars again:

Let me make this clear, I sincerely do NOT believe Roy's American 5-inch diameter 3-chime whistle is from the Admiral Joe Fowler riverboat, because it's too far-fetched and its total speculations to me!

Nonsense, not all feedwater heaters are always mounted on top of the locomotives' smokebox. FYI, the first Southern Ps-4s built in 1923-1924 had the Worthington 3-B type feedwater heater mounted on the running board of the fireman's side.

Also, sad news from 2 years ago, former WDWRR foreman George Britton, who was responsible for creating the feedwater heaters, has passed away 😥: https://www.osceolamemgds.com/obituaries/George-Britton-4/#!/TributeWall

Trivia: When the first three WDWRR locomotives entered service on October 1, 1971, they were all equipped with a Buckeye 3-inch diameter 3-chime whistle, which was commonly used on industrial switching steam engines, traction engines, little steamboats and tugboats. Despite having somewhat...

I heard Lilly's new boiler is much bigger than her old one.

Here's a video of a certain someone's boiler at the Strasburg yard:

No, it's a tender... and that's Thomas the Tank Engine to you! >:(

I've spy with my little eye, something beginning with "T".

Since Lilly is STILL wearing Walter's Buckeye whistle, I'm starting to miss the Walter wearing the Buckeye. Here's my whistle choice for Walter and Lilly; the former needs to wear the Buckeye whistle again and the latter can have a Crosby 3 inch 3-chime that sounds like this:

Oh, you're right, I'm sorry if this was completely pointless, and I should have known it was complete a waste of time... I was still bitter about the rude Twitter users' over-reaction on my mind. :(

Nah, far from it. :P

Now that Walter got the Baldwin whistle back, I would like to have a Lonergan 5 inch 3-chime on Roger:

Hey, folks, Walter is back in service with the Baldwin whistle re-installed. Here's the video around the 2:05:15:

I know Walter's Crosby and Roger's Lonergan sound almost to one another, but there's a big difference; the Crosby's chamber shapes were sharp arched with a much lower note, while the Lonergan's chambers were somewhat hexagonal and a rather higher note.

Right now on the WDWRR, I saw Lilly and Roger being the only two trains running per livestream video, and I believe Walter is under maintenance.

What makes you think that the WDWRR weren't able to run three trains due to being understaffed? IIRC, they DO run ALL three trains (Walter, Lilly, and Roy) back when the WDWRR reopened from the last two years ago: