Oregon Wisconsin Siren Replacement
Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 5:42 am
Hey guys, couple of weeks ago I looked into a change that I had noticed in Oregon. My brother and I had driven by where Oregon's Allertor was supposed to be, but I could not find it. I didn't think too much of it since I was driving (on the opposite side of the car from the siren's site), and my brother had near no idea what he was looking for.
It came up some time later where my step dad had let out that he had saw a new white one. So I set out on the 14th to find out what was up. I entered Oregon through a back road, so that I could come up behind where the old Allertor was kept. I had four missions that day:
1. Find out if the Allertor was still there, if it was not:
2. Find out where the Allertor has gone, and if it is obtainable. And...
3. Find out the location, make, and model of the new installed siren.
4. Get pictures of those two, plus the Thunderbolt 1003 on the north side of the town.
It was by sheer luck that as I came in past the village hall of Oregon, that I looked over and accomplished the third objective:
I would later learn by looking at a proposal document that the exact model of the new siren is the ASC T-128. I personally approve of this one, I prefer the new T-1XX series over the FS 2001-XX series. Had this siren been here a long time ago, I might have gotten into sirens earlier; This siren sits only a block from two houses where I used to live.
I continued on and came around to the lot where the Allertor once stood, at this point, it didn't suprise me that it had been taken down. But at this point I wanted to know what happened to it. I left to Get shots of the Thunderbolt (in the Photo album linked below), and then stopped by the town hall where I was directed to the manager of public works. My first attempt to talk to him was stymied due to him being on lunch. So I left a message for him and set out.
At this point, I knew two things, the new siren was on the south side of town, and the Allertor was moved. I've cataloged a couple of city's sirens through Google Earth, and that lent me the knowledge to know that there was a new siren needed on the West side of town where an expansion had gone off there. So I set out to locate either a new siren out that way, or the Allertor that had been moved from the center of Oregon. I found neither at the time.
Just as I had gotten done, the public works manager called me back and I arranged to meet him immediately. When I got there I posed a couple of questions and got the following answers:
As for the Allertor, I highly believe that it will be used in another siren system or to possible repair Hill Electric's own siren:
The album of the existing Oregon sirens: http://s105.photobucket.com/user/turtlb ... 0Wisconsin
And a map of Oregon with the new siren system noted:
It came up some time later where my step dad had let out that he had saw a new white one. So I set out on the 14th to find out what was up. I entered Oregon through a back road, so that I could come up behind where the old Allertor was kept. I had four missions that day:
1. Find out if the Allertor was still there, if it was not:
2. Find out where the Allertor has gone, and if it is obtainable. And...
3. Find out the location, make, and model of the new installed siren.
4. Get pictures of those two, plus the Thunderbolt 1003 on the north side of the town.
It was by sheer luck that as I came in past the village hall of Oregon, that I looked over and accomplished the third objective:
I would later learn by looking at a proposal document that the exact model of the new siren is the ASC T-128. I personally approve of this one, I prefer the new T-1XX series over the FS 2001-XX series. Had this siren been here a long time ago, I might have gotten into sirens earlier; This siren sits only a block from two houses where I used to live.
I continued on and came around to the lot where the Allertor once stood, at this point, it didn't suprise me that it had been taken down. But at this point I wanted to know what happened to it. I left to Get shots of the Thunderbolt (in the Photo album linked below), and then stopped by the town hall where I was directed to the manager of public works. My first attempt to talk to him was stymied due to him being on lunch. So I left a message for him and set out.
At this point, I knew two things, the new siren was on the south side of town, and the Allertor was moved. I've cataloged a couple of city's sirens through Google Earth, and that lent me the knowledge to know that there was a new siren needed on the West side of town where an expansion had gone off there. So I set out to locate either a new siren out that way, or the Allertor that had been moved from the center of Oregon. I found neither at the time.
Just as I had gotten done, the public works manager called me back and I arranged to meet him immediately. When I got there I posed a couple of questions and got the following answers:
- The Allertor was removed last year in the fall, and was taken by Hill Electric
- The new siren was a T-128, it was installed at the same time the Allertor was taken out
- There is a new siren going pretty much exactly as I thought it would out in the western expansion (called Bergemont) in Oregon, scheduled for later this year
As for the Allertor, I highly believe that it will be used in another siren system or to possible repair Hill Electric's own siren:
The album of the existing Oregon sirens: http://s105.photobucket.com/user/turtlb ... 0Wisconsin
And a map of Oregon with the new siren system noted: