The Siren Board

Melvin Potts wrote:In Chattanooga, TN there's a Thunderbolt (now silent) atop the Belvoir Pharmacy on Brainerd Rd. It's mounted very LOW. I've never seen one mounted atop a pharmacy.

Chicago has some sirens downtown that are within a couple blocks of each other. The Art Institute of Chicago has a 2001 and a Modulator on either side of the building and they have sirens installed between large buildings along the streets.

bigloudnoise wrote:The only siren I've seen that I really considered as being in a weird place was in Ferryville, Wisconsin. They have a model 2 on the roof of a bar and grill.

maybe that's how they signal "last call."

At AAFD #1 in Valencia, there's a Model 2 about 100FT from a Model 5

Mount Shasta, California, has a set of ten air horns on the roof of the police station (two large, eight small) that are no longer used. They also had two sets of three horns (one large, two small) which were removed years ago. One was on the back of an auto mechanic's shop and ran off his compressor. The other was on the roof of my high school's shop building. Many of us said a little prayer that it wouldn't go off for a fire call while we were using one of the big saws in the woodshop, as it was very loud. I could hear it three miles away at my house.

carexpertandy wrote:Other things I find weird about Hamilton County:

In Norwood, there is a Thunderbolt on top of a Salvation Army thrift store.

In Downtown Cincinnati, there is a high pitched Thunderbolt 1000 on top of a condominium building. It must be there because the building used to be a school.

On UC's campus, there's a Thunderbolt 1000 on top of Calhoun Hall which is a dormitory building. I do find this rather unusual.

That Salvation Army building in Norwood was a school at one time. I'm not sure how long ago that was, but it might have been a school when that TBolt was installed.

dilloncarpenter wrote:There is a Thunderbeam here in Denver in the middle of a rail yard, which I never understood. There are also 2 or 3 locations with a 2001-DC and SD-10 about 200 feet apart.

Avon, Indiana has 2 Omni-directional Whelens in their rail yard, about 3/4 mile apart. I am not sure why they are there, as they are situated in the middle of 2001 country.

Here they are in Google Earth, along with some surrounding sirens:

Oldiesmann wrote:

carexpertandy wrote:Other things I find weird about Hamilton County:

In Norwood, there is a Thunderbolt on top of a Salvation Army thrift store.

In Downtown Cincinnati, there is a high pitched Thunderbolt 1000 on top of a condominium building. It must be there because the building used to be a school.

On UC's campus, there's a Thunderbolt 1000 on top of Calhoun Hall which is a dormitory building. I do find this rather unusual.

That Salvation Army building in Norwood was a school at one time. I'm not sure how long ago that was, but it might have been a school when that TBolt was installed.

The Salvation Army Tbolt #75 is dead and has been for quite awhile. Clayton had discussed this siren with me the past few weeks. A new roof was put in and the roofers roofed over the blower rendering it non servicable. Clayton says he has not been able to raise the siren in quite some time.

Have you discussed any of the other inoperable sirens?

We discussed The White Oak and Simonson Rd. 1000ts and how they keep tripping the rotator circuits under icy conditions. There are some others ,but i'm not remembering them at the moment.