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Train whistle

Janzie - 1-21-2017 at 05:43 PM

We live in Mulegé and this season we were surprised to periodically hear a train whistle. Due to the absence of rail service here, we figured out fairly quickly that it was some vehicle with a specialty horn. But recently the entertainment seems to have disappeared. Anyone know anything about this.?

carlosg - 1-21-2017 at 06:03 PM

SWEET POTATOES...!!!!

They're sold all over Mexico late in the evening going up and down the town streets:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&...

Here's more links to CAMOTES ASADOS or as known by the locals: El Carrito de los Camotes :

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android...

This is a very popular folk song about it:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&...

El Carrito de los Camotes is a very old tradition in México...

[Edited on 1-22-2017 by carlosg]

shari - 1-21-2017 at 06:28 PM

I LOVE those yummy yams and am conditioned to salivate when I hear a train whistle now!

mtgoat666 - 1-21-2017 at 07:09 PM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Sorry, I must be severly shelted, as I don't get it? Train whistle=yams???


Next time you hear a steam whistle, go to it, you might find a sweet potato
:light:

mtgoat666 - 1-21-2017 at 07:28 PM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Sorry, I must be severly shelted, as I don't get it? Train whistle=yams???


Next time you hear a steam whistle, go to it, you might find a sweet potato
:light:


Why "might" you find that?


Yes, you might. Take a walk on the wild side, what do you have to loose?

mtgoat666 - 1-21-2017 at 07:38 PM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
So, this is a sexual orientation thing? Glad you knew this and educated me! LOL


Well, food can be sexual

Janzie - 1-21-2017 at 10:31 PM

All your responses are duly noted, but I don't think that's what we've been hearing. This is more like a diesel locomotive than a steam whistle.

mtgoat666 - 1-22-2017 at 02:34 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
So, this is a sexual orientation thing? Glad you knew this and educated me! LOL


Well, food can be sexual


Yes, a 'camote' can mean more than just a sweet potato or yam! :lol:

I still am not getting what vegetables have to do with a train horn?


Perhaps the more pressing question is what is the connection between Shmita and Mount Sinai?

Jack Swords - 1-22-2017 at 06:41 AM

The camote seller (sweet potato) in La Paz uses charcoal heat to keep the
camotes warm. He also uses the same heat to create steam which drives a steam whistle like old trains. It sounds like a train steam whistle. When one hears that whistle (like the ice cream man's truck), folks know the camote man is there. The sweet potatos are handed out in a paper container with cream if you want it. Fork included. Quite good.

David K - 1-22-2017 at 10:03 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Jack Swords  
The camote seller (sweet potato) in La Paz uses charcoal heat to keep the
camotes warm. He also uses the same heat to create steam which drives a steam whistle like old trains. It sounds like a train steam whistle. When one hears that whistle (like the ice cream man's truck), folks know the camote man is there. The sweet potatos are handed out in a paper container with cream if you want it. Fork included. Quite good.


FINALLY, AN ANSWER! Thank you, Jack... I never heard that story before. What a cool thing!

mtgoat666 - 1-22-2017 at 10:31 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Quote: Originally posted by Jack Swords  
The camote seller (sweet potato) in La Paz uses charcoal heat to keep the
camotes warm. He also uses the same heat to create steam which drives a steam whistle like old trains. It sounds like a train steam whistle. When one hears that whistle (like the ice cream man's truck), folks know the camote man is there. The sweet potatos are handed out in a paper container with cream if you want it. Fork included. Quite good.


FINALLY, AN ANSWER! Thank you, Jack... I never heard that story before. What a cool thing!


DK, the whistle thing, it's not just in la Paz....

MulegeAL - 1-22-2017 at 02:08 PM

The train whistle is on a Mexican's long haul truck. I've heard it intermittently for several years as he rolls through town on hwy 1.

David K - 1-22-2017 at 06:29 PM

Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Quote: Originally posted by Jack Swords  
The camote seller (sweet potato) in La Paz uses charcoal heat to keep the
camotes warm. He also uses the same heat to create steam which drives a steam whistle like old trains. It sounds like a train steam whistle. When one hears that whistle (like the ice cream man's truck), folks know the camote man is there. The sweet potatos are handed out in a paper container with cream if you want it. Fork included. Quite good.


FINALLY, AN ANSWER! Thank you, Jack... I never heard that story before. What a cool thing!


DK, the whistle thing, it's not just in la Paz....


Understood, I have never heard it in any city... probably because I am mostly camping out in the boonies, in Baja!?

bajabuddha - 1-23-2017 at 03:30 PM

Quote: Originally posted by MulegeAL  
The train whistle is on a Mexican's long haul truck. I've heard it intermittently for several years as he rolls through town on hwy 1.

Double down ditto on the long-hauler with a train whistle on his truck. I've heard him 'toot' the horn on Hwy 1 down on the lower bay of Concepcion for 20 years. Quite the conversation piece.

Train Whistle

bajaguy - 1-23-2017 at 03:45 PM

OK, so it's either the Camote seller, a long haul trucker or both. Hopefully people won't get the two confused

[Edited on 1-23-2017 by bajaguy]

carlosg - 1-23-2017 at 03:54 PM

LETS TRY THIS:

https://www.hornblasters.com/audio

bajabuddha - 1-23-2017 at 05:26 PM

Seein's as how the OP mentioned Mulege, I never heard a 'train whistle' in town, and never had a yam I didn't cook. Plus, there's a YUUUGE difference between a 'train whistle' and a full-on diesel locomotive air horn, which has been heard on the highway periodically, but not at all often, emanating from HWY 1 areas, as far as 25 miles south of town.

Great stories about the yam vendors tho...... never heard/saw one but would love to nosh on a tasty camote done custom.

However, all of this can be "alternative news". New day and age. :cool: