Evan, thank you for the fantastic writeup and links! This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while, I had no idea. It's saddens me that these are being left to rot or getting scrapped. The world today seems to have no interest in preserving the engineering marvels of the past. I'd love to s...

Hannah - Thanks for the welcome back! I don't know about "heard it all" because I still have yet to actually hear a big siren in person. I *thought* I heard one of these, but then realized that some of the emergency vehicle sirens here, combined with the echoes of the city, have enough aut...

Gil! It's cool to see you are still around here. I hardly ever visit the board anymore besides a cursory check now and then, let alone post, but since I finally found myself in a place with interesting sirens I had to pop in. I haven't spent much hobby time (what little there is anymore) on sirens, ...

There seem to be a lot of those 6-horned sirens around Yokkaichi. My best spotting so far was a pole with one of these sirens AND four of the big straight-horned PA speakers (like the fire station) all mounted together. No picture. At this point, I was on a bus headed to a customer facility that str...

I did not get to sit on the proper side of the train today to get a better picture, but I did see some more cool stuff. Unfortunately everything is going by so fast I did not have time to get my camera ready. Maybe another time now that I kind of know where they are! I spotted an older looking Omni-...

I was becoming complacent when coming up right beside the tracks was something unique indeed! At this point it was rapidly approaching (the train was outside of the denser part of the city and moving along at a decent clip) and I scrambled to ready my camera. I twisted around in my seat to track thi...

Here's a neat vibratory horn. They are all over the train stations, which I learned when I was standing right next to one. They emit a smooth tone to let everyone know to keep clear. Each one seems to have a different tone, some are high and some are low. But that's not what I posted for. Terrible p...

Well over 15 years counting the old siren board before this one, but after warningsirens.org (I think it was called that? Damn that was long ago!) It has been a long time since I checked in here! I am currently in Japan on business (my first time outside the US actually), and of course I am always k...

I scanned this article from the Winter 2003 issue of Invention & Technology magazine. It has been sitting on my old, long-retired hard drive since about that time. Please don't quote this whole thing... I don't see an option to show links rather than images when uploading to the board. This arti...

Sorry to bump an ancient thread, but for anyone who wants their Federal 55 to HOOOOONK and not Bzzzzzz, I have finally figured this out. I hope someone else can find it useful! Six years later... I pulled this sad piece of junk off the shelf in my garage (oh yeah, I have a garage again so I can play...