I took this picture of the Springport siren a few years ago.

RE: Marshall. The T-bolt is downtown behind Fire Station. The only XT22 I can recall was Near McDonalds on the West City Limits and it was replaced with a 2001. The used to be a T-bolt out by the Truck Stop on 94 which was also replaced by a 2001. Another T-bolt (might have been replaced) could be s...

It's been my experience that Fire Departments that use a siren for calls often do the Noon siren cycle that winds up an peaks one time then winds down. It let's the FD know the siren works daily except Sunday as not to disturb the Church services.

I'll say a Denver. Pan to the left one click then zoom down the barrel and note the A frame for the rotor shaft.

IMO, part of the problem is the "yearly test". That is 364 days of sitting idle. It is like starting a car up for 3 minutes a year and expecting it to run like new.

Look at the smile the man in the suit has. He has to be thinking can't wait to set this monster off.

At first I thought vent pipe also. However look close at the base. The base appears to be a vented stand. A vent pipe IMO would be a sealed pipe coming out of the ground. Also to the immediate right on the sidewalk is a cover for underground electric service. Interesting mystery.

Two Thunderbolts that came down that I am aware of were the State Journal Building and the other at Central Fire Station (when roof was redone) . Lansing put up a Thunderbolt at the new Fire Station on Miller Rd a few years ago. That might be where one of the missing went. The other one is probably ...

Lansing Twp. Thunderbolts are/were as old as the ones in the City of Lansing. As I recall Lansing Twp. had two T-bolts one on the W. Michigan Fire Station and the other was at the Township Fire Station on the NE side of Lansing. Lansing Twp. is a kind of a strange set up with Islands of Township div...

Thanks for the update, I had no idea MSU replaced the 2001's they were not all that old.