Beautiful BC Rail Holden Sandcast K5H Horn (PGE, BCR, UMP)

This is a very special piece a friend of mine recently snagged. A rare sand cast Nathan K5H covered in PGE and BCR green, complete with the Holden tag, cork foot gaskets, big bore 5, and "Made in Canada" backcaps. Somehow after being in service on the BCR, it ended up on an Upper Merion & Plymouth switcher in southeast PA (UMP 9009, SW9) working in close proximity to a steel mill, which coated everything in a fine brown dust. The black paint was presumably rattlecanned by whoever installed the horn on 9009, since the entire backside of the horn (which would've faced the cab wall) remained clean of the black paint. Some light cleaning and replacing a cracked diaphragm in the 4 bell was all it needed to sound like a Swanson horn again.