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Fort Knox, Ky sirens?

Fri Jun 04, 2010 8:32 pm

Does any know what kind of sirens Fort Knox, Ky has in their system besides this one Thunderbolt (look into the far left corner. also a Fairbanks-Morse diesel to brighten the train fans here too):
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 779&nseq=0

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Fri Jun 04, 2010 8:33 pm

Hehe. It looks like the train has a tiny Thunderbolt attached to its roof.

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Fri Jun 04, 2010 8:41 pm

Mantis wrote:Hehe. It looks like the train has a tiny Thunderbolt attached to its roof.
Hey it does doesn't it?!

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Fri Jun 04, 2010 8:59 pm

The thunderbolt looks really high. Is it on a pole or on a building?

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Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:08 pm

OmniAlert wrote:The thunderbolt looks really high. Is it on a pole or on a building?
Well you have to consider it looks like that behind the diesel there is a hill so that might something to do with. And there is also the fact that just sometimes cities just want their siren(s) mounted high like that. But it looks like that this Thunderbolt is just mounted on a tall pole.

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Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:26 am

Thunderbolts are classics, they always tower over others even trains :D

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Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:49 am

Also, consider the possibility of the thunderbolt's pole being replaced to upgrade from 30 ft to 50 ft. The thunderbolt seems to be at "2001 height" rather than traditional "thunderbolt height"
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Sat Jun 05, 2010 9:05 am

It looks to me like the ground behind the tracks is rising.

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Sat Jun 05, 2010 1:24 pm

A while back, I heard somewhere that there may be an Allertor, I think near an amunition plant. I would think that besides the possible Allertor and the TBolt, the rest of the base itself has either Whelens or Mods

I'm curious as to what the rest of Harden County has. I know from a news report a couple of years back that Elizabethtown has several older sirens, which copper thieves hit, and some newer ones, but the report didn't say what types of sirens they were. I also know that Radcliff has at least one, and possibly two sirens, but again, I don't know what types.
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Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:08 pm

I've been in Elizabethtown once and remember seeing this Whelen Vortex on Rineyville Rd. north of Ring Rd.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 1,,0,-10.6

Also been to Rineyville and saw this STH-10 next to the fire station.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... ,,0,-13.17

I also remember seeing this in Rineyville. A Hornet at Rineyville Community Park!
http://item.slide.com/r/1/0/i/spCsnqh54 ... t42NcGlFQ/
That's the best photo of it. If you want to see "Birds Eye" photos, you can look through this album.
http://www.slide.com/r/BmmFHOtN0T_H7DF_ ... ap=2&cy=un
Resident of a county with big a mixture of sirens, but in the process of being replaced. :(

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