Absolutely. I was contacted by someone who had an Ashton 3 chime whistle and it was appraised at $10,000 dollars! Here are a coupe of pictures of the whistle.
You can say THAT again! The sound of a distant steam whistle should be declared a wonder of the world. Doug
They still sound a whistle here at the Hormel plant at the same hours as they always have for decades. When the new plant was built in the eighties, since heat was no longer steam, they installed an air compressor big enough to supply pressure to the whistle so it would work the same as it always had. Doug
I guess it sounds pretty much the same to me, from a distance. Maybe up close there's more of a difference. Doug