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Your welcome.Duly noted. Thank you. All the ones I have seen and taken note of have been on runs between Emeryville and Fresno and have had the center roof mounted horn.There's only two types, California cars and Surfliner cars, Cal cars have the horn on the roof, Surfliners have it at ear level as pictured.Actually that isn't quite true. There are 3 different California Cab Car designs out there. Some have the horns on the roofs others, have them embedded down below like the NS-render.On the current California bi-levels, the horn is mounted on the roof, dead center, unlike the low mounting shown here. I would question whether this low mounting would provide sufficient sound projection. The roof mounting does make for an overall height of right at 17 feet zero inches, since the roof height is 16'-2".Yeah, the headlights, horn and window wiper are a dead giveaway.
The 5 Surfliner Cab / Baggage cars in the NorCal pool have generally been kept on the Capitol Corridors when possible in recent years, due to their greater bicycle carrying capacity. This will change when the conversion of California Cab cars into Surfliner style Cab / Baggage cars is complete, as both types will then be inter-changable.