New siren pictures! (And pictures from md5)

[kswx29]

Here are some pictures i have taken over the past month or so.
*Please dis-regard the date on the pictures as it may not be accurate.*

Kansas City, KS:
Kansas Speedway

Tonganoxie, KS:
Brand new 2001 near a new housing area off of US 24-40
Tonganoxie City Hall
Leavenworth County has very good maintenance and upkeep on their sirens. All of their original Thunderbolts (and Thunderbeam) are still up and running (except for 1 at Ft. Leavenworth) The only thing is they are puting up some 2001s in areas with growth.

Williamstown, KS:
Single tone Banshee located at US 24 & US 59
*I am planing on video recording this Banshee in January so wish me luck!*

Berryton, KS:
Berryton Grade School
Controls
For being a 2001 the controls are very rusted. Does anyone know what the yellow box is for? None of our other 2001s have this yellow box.

Pauline, KS:
Forbes Field
A STH-10...in Shawnee County?! Well, make that a half STH-10.
Half STH-10
Close up
This half STH-10 is located on a Water tower in the Montara subdivision. I believe theire is another half STH-10 on the other side of the tower because this one only covers the southern side. I would have taken a better picture but there was some old women giving me a dirty look so i decided i better snap a quick one and get outta there before the sherrif showed up. Will try and get a better one soon.

Topeka, KS:


Better veiw of the Downtown Topeka Thunderbolt
500AT on top a 13 story building at Sw 21st & Gage. *I am planing on video recording this the next Monday i have off from school*
Logan Jr.High *Note that the blower is mounted pretty high. None of the Thunderbolts in this area have blowers mounted on the ground.
Veiw from the front
Sw 10th & Fairlawn - No, the 2t22 is not ontop the power pole. It is on its own seperate pole.
Close up - Does it look like the horns are a wee bit bent? Also, i hope to record this sometime in December.

Will have more to come in the future!

[thunderbolt1003kid]

Logan Jr.High[/url] *Note that the blower is mounted pretty high. None of the Thunderbolts in this area have blowers mounted on the ground.
Veiw from the front![/quote]

Thats exactly how our thunderbolts are mounted. When the city had to relocate two of them (we have 5 thunderbolt 1003's) they only mounted them on one pole.It would have been cheaper to put them up this way. I bet it gives extra support in high winds.

By the way nice pictures

[md5]

Thought i would post a few pictures up myself also, since most pictures I see here are from the kansas area...

I took most of these from my palm phone, so no good resolutions on them. I have a picture from this past years flood in kansas with a thunderbolt somewhere and a recent picture of the same siren which was in the flood area. The phone images are rather warped when you are going 70mph down a freeway. =p

EoWs, Tbolt and a Whelen is what I saw on my way back from Branson, MO. [they have quite a few whelens in Branson.]

Whelen: http://bctrainers.homeip.net/s/whelen.jpg - Siren was over on the missouri side.
Tbolt: http://bctrainers.homeip.net/s/clintonMO.jpg
I personally thought Johnson country, KS rid of all these sirens a few years ago: eows? http://bctrainers.homeip.net/s/leawoodKS.jpg

Lane KS Tbolt: I will look for the flood pictures this past year of this one.

http://bctrainers.homeip.net/s/laneKS1.jpg
http://bctrainers.homeip.net/s/laneKS2.jpg
http://bctrainers.homeip.net/s/laneKS3.jpg
http://bctrainers.homeip.net/s/laneKS4.jpg

[kswx29]

Nice pictures! I did not know Johnson County had EOWS's. Do you know where the one that you took a picture of is located at? Thats a weird setup the Lane Thunderbolt has, Do you remeber its location?

[md5]

Nice pictures! I did not know Johnson County had EOWS's. Do you know where the one that you took a picture of is located at? Thats a weird setup the Lane Thunderbolt has, Do you remeber its location?

I'll have to pull up its exact location on google maps. I never wrote down what roads all the sirens were on.

The lane thunderbolt makes perfect sense after i can find the Southeast flood pictures. You'll see why it was built like that

EDIT: Here's that flood picture: http://bctrainers.homeip.net/s/P1010067-1280.jpg

EDIT2.1: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&om= ... 4&t=h&z=16

On that road there somewhere, it was atop the hill of the road.

[kswx29]

Thanks. Nice flood pictures! Topeka experienced major flooding in early May, causing USD 501 to close school. I don't think any sirens were under water tho.

[md5]

Thanks. Nice flood pictures! Topeka experienced major flooding in early May, causing USD 501 to close school. I don't think any sirens were under water tho.

Yeah, that flood earlier this year was quite the eye opener. I have a slew of flood pictures on my other pc somewhere from this past year.

On the Ks Speedway picture there, that's the siren next to that large phone tower, no?

[kswx29]

It's the pole with the white horn on top of it. I do not see a cellphone tower in that photo.

[md5]

It's the pole with the white horn on top of it. I do not see a cellphone tower in that photo.

hrm, I must be thinking of another one in the area than...

[red04stanggt]

Just out of curiousity but is it possible a tbolt with a higher mounted blower could be louder since the boost has a lesser distance to travel? Is it possible there could be any air leaks between near the ground and the very top with low mounted blowers?