My grandson is a full blown siren nerd, er, enthusiast. It’s so cool. Like locomotive train dudes, and other stuff like gun guys. Sorta. He’ll be 15 soon but last couple years taking him shooting he’s like a hawk and can see an old fire station siren. He’ll know the name and manufacture/model number, generation three, etc. We’ve had to run off the road so he can shoot pics of a siren. I could go on, but I just wanted to know if anyone has ever heard of this hobby? I mean, he has files and a web map of the ones he’s recorded. Yesterday we were getting ready to go and the local fire department had their ladders up and then the siren went off, funeral, and he got to record the sound and the horn going around. I know it’s better than dope. Love him!
Siren Enthusiasts?
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VictorySiren.com? - The Internet home of the Chrysler Air Raid Siren
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DWalt
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I have never before heard of a siren enthusiast. Has anyone else?
I remember reading about luxury passenger ships of the golden age, such as the Queen Mary, having sirens instead of steam whistles, which could be heard from 20 miles or more away.
I remember reading about luxury passenger ships of the golden age, such as the Queen Mary, having sirens instead of steam whistles, which could be heard from 20 miles or more away.
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ACORN
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Glassport Pa. Where I used to live has a Thunderbolt Siren mounted on the roof of a building on the main drag.
As the siren was blowing the horn would rotate, so if you were on the street it sounded as though the siren was coming down the street then up the next.
This recording kind of captures the effect
http://www.jmarcoz.com/sirens/glassportthunderbolt.mp3
As the siren was blowing the horn would rotate, so if you were on the street it sounded as though the siren was coming down the street then up the next.
This recording kind of captures the effect
http://www.jmarcoz.com/sirens/glassportthunderbolt.mp3
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The Last Standing Knight
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Sirens and other emergency warning equipment...
...are a VERY BIG hobby despite it not getting a lot of attention.
Numerous sites on the web and on YT dedicated to it.
You'd probably be surprised that there is a lot of unusual emergency equipment out there that often never made main stream.
For example: The North American Signal Co. "Riot Tone" Siren.
The Powercall siren
The LTS Siren from the land down under (The Mad Max siren)
You've seen railfans take pics and videos of train, right? Well, there are people who actually go around the world filming emergency vehicles in operation and responding to calls. (Ambulances in the Netherlands for example have a special siren that makes them sound like an ice cream truck!...and they use primarily Chevrolet vans!)
...are a VERY BIG hobby despite it not getting a lot of attention.
Numerous sites on the web and on YT dedicated to it.
You'd probably be surprised that there is a lot of unusual emergency equipment out there that often never made main stream.
For example: The North American Signal Co. "Riot Tone" Siren.
The Powercall siren
The LTS Siren from the land down under (The Mad Max siren)
You've seen railfans take pics and videos of train, right? Well, there are people who actually go around the world filming emergency vehicles in operation and responding to calls. (Ambulances in the Netherlands for example have a special siren that makes them sound like an ice cream truck!...and they use primarily Chevrolet vans!)
My mom still cringes when she hears an air raid siren in a movie.
Farmer17
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If you like loud sirens come to Oklahoma. They test all the tornado sirens every Saturday at noon for about 60 seconds and some of them are REALLY loud. There is one style that looks like a big trumpet horn and it rotates 360 degrees and when it is aimed right at you it is ear-splitting!
OP
I don't blame her. I would too if I had to live through that.
jeffrefrig,
Here is an Old Civil Defence Siren Tower, still standing in the Brockton, Mass area.
I think, back in the day, they were sometimes used for a fire alert which would summon the Volunteer Firefighters.
If you are of a certain age,
, you will remember seeing these all over the place, 1940's & 1950's.
Feel free to grab the photo for your Grandson.
MartyD
Here is an Old Civil Defence Siren Tower, still standing in the Brockton, Mass area.
I think, back in the day, they were sometimes used for a fire alert which would summon the Volunteer Firefighters.
If you are of a certain age,
, you will remember seeing these all over the place, 1940's & 1950's.Feel free to grab the photo for your Grandson.
MartyD
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OP
Marty, Thank you. He will love that. I wasn't born till '57, but I'm sure I've seen them, probably disabled, in all the trips up to our camp and my uncle's camp. I do remember them but didn't know what they were sirens for.
There's one a quarter mile from me. I'm downwind from a nuker, about 6 miles west of here.
On one Wednesday a month, at 1150, they run a test. When I hear, I never recognize it at first. Always good for a "what the heck is that?"
Sometimes they alert bad weather with it. Tornadoes in the area type things.
I kinda like it.
On one Wednesday a month, at 1150, they run a test. When I hear, I never recognize it at first. Always good for a "what the heck is that?"
Sometimes they alert bad weather with it. Tornadoes in the area type things.
I kinda like it.
Yep, The CD early warning tower is about a mile from my house. The first Wednesday of every month I have to pry the cats off the drapes.
I remember the VFD near my childhood home having one. It was a call for us to ride our bikes to the station to see where the fire was scrawled on the chalkboard on the front of the station.
After I stayed at a hotel that was hosting a convention of barbed wire collectors, I really do believe people will collect anything
In my small town in the 50's and early 60's, they would test the civil defense siren on top of Montgomery Wards every day. Seems somewhat romantic now.
