Madison County, Illinois siren pics

[vortexofmisery]

Hello all. I am new to the board and wanted to share pictures of our local sirens.







Edwardsville, IL's system of Whelen Vortex's







Highland, IL - EOWS / Siratone 612 Siren






Rural Madison County near Macoupin County Line. This Model 5 siren is literally out in the middle of nowhere. Notice the cut wires.




Meadowbrook, IL - old Model 5 and new Whelen Vortex.



Close up.




Staunton, IL (Macoupin County). Federal Signal Thunderbeam.

[Daniel]

Welcome, vortexofmisery. Great photos! I love that old Darley siren with the cut wires, and you are correct in that there is a Model 5 inside. Those are some rather unusual mounts, especially the Thunderbeam.

[Bama2001]

Actually I think the "new vortex" is a whelen 4003/4004? Also is that 612 blue?

[vortexofmisery]

The 612 back is a very light grey, kinda looks blue in the pic, but it's more grey-ish in person. Is there a way to tell if that Whelen is a Vortex or a 4003/4004 just by looking at it?

[Bama2001]

Vortex's have a fin on the back's of them

[kswx29]

Talk about low! That darley is the lowest ive ever seen!

[Whelen Rules]

Vortex's have a fin on the back's of them

Actually not anymore. Whelen no longer puts a fin on the Vortex. The Vortex has a square mechanism on the oscillator, while the 4000 series is round. All 3 Whelen sirens shown above are Vortex series.

[thunderbolt1003kid]

Vortex's have a fin on the back's of them

Actually not anymore. Whelen no longer puts a fin on the Vortex. The Vortex has a square mechanism on the oscillator, while the 4000 series is round. All 3 Whelen sirens shown above are Vortex series.

I wonder why they stopped doing that. The fins looked cool.

[Adam Pollak]

Hey, did Edwardsville use to have T-Bolts a few years ago before the Whelen system? I know that there are the sirens in the city as well as the 4000s/Vortexes on the SIUE campus (along with Federal Model As inside some of the buildings) I have a pic of a T-bolt from fall 2004 and I thought it was from there.

[vortexofmisery]

I'm not sure, I haven't really paid attention to sirens until just recently. The siren by the water tower in Edwardsville is like all new development and new subdivisions. I'll drive thru SIUE next time I go to Edwardsville and see if I can spot any sirens (new or old) and snap some pics. In Wood River, IL where I live theres 2 old Thunderbolt's which I haven't heard them use since around 2002 or so, they all got replaced with Whelen Vortex's. They look really good though, I believe they were installed around 1989 or 1990 or so and are single toned.

Here's a clip of the Whelen close to my house during a storm and a pic from the Siren archive of the actual siren.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt0MiecUwfg