Siren in rail photos

[SirenMadness]

E8s or E8(a)s produce maybe no more than a thousand horsepower, so it makes sense!

Also, I think that the blower is inside the building or somewhere outside on a low level.

[Robert Gift]

Four thousand HP for just 6 cars?!
But maybe we are just seeing a section of the train.
Or they are deadheading engines.

From another view, it appears the blower must be on the lower
roof which can be walked out upon.
I can understand not placing it on the higher roof only accessible using a ladder.

[birdy]

There is a Tbolt mounted like that on a parking garage around here. (The one I keep meaning to take pictures of.)

Upon closer inspection, the blower is on the same level as the siren, but for some reason the siren has a long standpipe and guy wires to support it. I'm not sure why they didn't just mount the siren on the blower, maybe it's a sound thing?

[SirenMadness]

Mounting the blower on the same level as the siren head will make for easier maintenance and qualitative testing on the whole thing.

Yes, over four-thousand horsepower. Today, many railroads rely on P42DCs and other such locomotives to do that, which have about four-thousand horsepower.

[q2bman]

Reminds me of Wichita Falls. The BNSF yard at Wichita was near a building downtown that has an active T-Bolt 1000t on the roof. Way up there but suprisingly loud down below. Nothing like hearing a t-bolt mixed with a K-5

[hobbeekid]

E8s or E8(a)s produce maybe no more than a thousand horsepower, so it makes sense

Not to get to far off topic ,the emd e8 was rated at 2250 horsepower each. Powered by twin diesel electric engines, A1A trucks,A1A meaning
the center axle was not powered.each engine had steam generators for heating passenger equipment.They were built and geared for speed to maintain passenger times.By the way nice t135 rail pick archon ........

[Robert Gift]

Powered by twin diesel electric engines, A1A trucks,A1A meaning the center axle was not powered.

Why not power ALL wheels?

Seems that if some load is on unpowered wheels, that allows more slip because less weight on powered wheels.

Nice photo, Archon
Where in WY?

Thank you,

[SirenMadness]

That is still just over half of what the modern passenger-locomotives put out.
Two engines? So far, I thought that EMD only has done that with their DD series!

By the way, putting the T-bolt on a big pole on top of a building-roof is good, as there are less obstructions for the sound, and the sound is less irritating for the people closest on the ground to it.

[AlarmRepair]

I got lost on this topic at first.... Who is seeing SD70m's?? Those are E8's EMD's, I think they are 1,200 HP each... Nice photo's.. That could be the "City of New Orleans" train in the 1950's.. Famous train!

[SirenMadness]

The SD-70Ms are in my first post; click on the link.