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You guys do realize this is a Google Street view image from September 2016, right? Chances are this siren is already long gone.

What's the purpose of the well pump on that thunderbolt?

It'd be fun to mount one on the roof of a car and plug it into one of those cigarette lighter power inverters and blast it
(DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME, KIDS!)

4J25 wrote:Perhaps this is how they get their warning?

Either that, or some dingus hooked it up to vent exhaust gases from the factory or something. If that was the case it'd probably do the job good anyways...

Pictures I took in June of 2015:




I know these sirens are HUGE, but up on a roof, in a town with steep roads, it looked puny even when I was standing right under it.

During my vacation to Hershey Pennsylvania last year we stopped through Pottsville to tour the Yuengling brewery and I snapped a couple good pics of the siren. When I get to my computer later today I'll put them in this thread if I remember.

Ever since discovering it on a road trip to a tour of the Yuengling Brewery, the famous fast-rotating Mobil Directo siren on top of the Yorkville Hose Co in Pottsville has always been interesting to me. I recently found this OLD video of it being installed on the building in 1965 and figured I'd pos...

The breaking news time channel looks fake as fake can be... lets copyright claim it until YT terminates it. :crazy: