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Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:08 am

Most of the remaining Thunderbolts of the Trojan Nuclear Power Station in Oregon and Washington are painted a blackish dark green to blend in with the trees.
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The Thunderbolts in Central PA used for Peach Bottom nuclear power plant are gray. my first time seeing a gray thunderbolt.

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Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:08 am

There's a low mounted one on the Siren Archive.

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Re: Siren Color Question

Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:46 pm

Mister_Penetrator wrote:Has anyone ever seen a black Thunderbolt?
Painted black by Federal Signal?
South Denver has a dark brown Thunderbolt painted to match the color of the 8 story bank building on which it is mounted.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&c ... &encType=1
(It's blower is apparently inside the roof mechanical room.)

In a car commercial filmed in SFC? we saw an SD-10 painted black.

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Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:26 pm

There was a few communities around the Chicago area, which had T-bolts painted green on top and brown further down. This was so they would mesh in with the trees, especially in the forest preserves. Strange, but effective paint scheme.

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Apparently, some of the old Thunderbolts at the Susquehanna Steam Power Plant were painted a reddish brown color.

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I managed to see a gray t-bolt in waterbury and a beige model 5 near bristol.
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In the Siren Pictures section of the ARS site, there's a black or dark brown Thunderbolt 1003 from New York.
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My two 'bolts has brown blower boxes and controls and the siren heads were white. They came form a nuke plant.

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Paint them blue-purple, the color of Cherenkov radiation
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