The Siren Board

I have walked by this thing for 4 1/2 years and just now finnaly noticed it today. This siren HAS to be owned/maintained by the BNSF Railway as it sits deep into the company property and is inside the locomotive diesel service facilities at Argentine Yard. I'm going to have to find out more about this thing. It appeared to be in good shape/taken care of. It just amazes me this long parking locomotives in the DSF I have walked by it countless times untill today I noticed it. There are a couple 2001's within 2 miles of this siren which makes me belive BNSF owns it. Sorry about the camera phone pictures. It's all I had with it and I HAD to get a couple pics of it.

wow, that first picture makes it look big.

There is a siren not far form me I never had a clue existed until I looked at a siren list last year. It was at a fire station I had driven by many times that I also never knew existed:



The bays are hidden behind what I thought was a funeral home, and on a very tall 80ft class-II utility pole was a new STH10. Pretty cool to discover that.

JasonC wrote:There is a siren not far form me I never had a clue existed until I looked at a siren list last year. It was at a fire station I had driven by many times that I also never knew existed:



The bays are hidden behind what I thought was a funeral home, and on a very tall 80ft class-II utility pole was a new STH10. Pretty cool to discover that.

BTW, I never knew remote controlled locomotives existed. 8)

That's a fire station? It does look like a funeral home. In some areas, like Medford, Oregon, fire stations were designed to look like ordinary homes, mostlikely to fool Soviet spy satellites during the Cold War. Instead of two or three large stations, they have about ten small, two bay ones. However, I've never seen one as elaborately disguised as this.

I don't understand why the soviets would have cared where, or how many fire stations we had. What is the strategic importance of a fire station?

JasonC wrote:

JasonC wrote:There is a siren not far form me I never had a clue existed until I looked at a siren list last year. It was at a fire station I had driven by many times that I also never knew existed:



The bays are hidden behind what I thought was a funeral home, and on a very tall 80ft class-II utility pole was a new STH10. Pretty cool to discover that.

BTW, I never knew remote controlled locomotives existed. 8)

They have been around since about 2003/2004. They are used in switching operations. The foreman and helper on the job both have a "beltpack" that can control the locomotive. Only 1 person can control at a time but you can "pitch" the controls back and forth. They are pretty cool but not cool...eliminated alot of conventional jobs with engineers

Volodia07 wrote:I don't understand why the soviets would have cared where, or how many fire stations we had. What is the strategic importance of a fire station?

The Soviets wanted to see how well we were equipped to respond to a disaster (i.e. nuclear attack). Sabotaging a fire station can dramatically reduce a city's ability to respond to disaster and can increase casualties dramatically.

cyclonesthebest wrote:wow, that first picture makes it look big.

.they are huge I actualy have one il put up a size comparison soon