I put a set of the Buell 4 chime loco air horns on my Ram dually up under the bed. Running 145 PSI into them operated by a manual valve. I do get the attention of the idiots that pull out in front of me that have a cell phone stuck in their ear. :angry: http://www.buellairhorns.com/ The other plus to having on board air is a reel with 50' of air hose.
I was thinking about it, but a 20 gal. tank in the bed of my Ranger and a Nathan 5 chime seems a little overkill...hehehe The have been times I wanted one, but I want to be able to hear too!!!
I'm using a 5 gal. tank and it's plenty. Tank, compressor, and reel are all installed in the tool box... still plenty of room. Doesn't seem too loud in the cab unless both windows are open and I'm going through a tunnel I'm half deaf anyway after riding units for so many years.
Welcome cap! I too have thought about it on my Jeep, but the small Wrangler doesn't have as much room for all the equipment and the small electric ones don't sound right. Here in Rockford people on cell phones pull out in front of you then slow down or jam on the brakes! :angry:
Rail horns are for Sissys. I want A Kahlenberg Military grade Airhorn. Sole supplier for the US carrier fleet. When they test them in Two Rivers Wisconsin, they can be heard in Luddington Michigan.
:teeth: :teeth:Sounds like the door bell I want installed, hooked up to the Federal Thunderbolt Cold War era air raid siren :teeth: :teeth:
Well, an excellent alternative is Grover stutter tone airhorns made for fire departments...unique sound...they get attention.
I had a friend who equipped his truck some air horns. Can't remember what kind of loco they were from. But he'd lay on them, when he got back in the valley. And I could hear them inside my home with no troubles. No matter where he was, until he was long over the hill into the next valley. Boxcab E50
There's more than one logging truck running up and down highway 101 here on the Oregon coast that have Nathan or (other brand-senior moment) chime horns installed. There isn't a rail line within 20 miles of here, and I hear these horns, it's GREAT. I hope they aren't stolen and I hope they are being used as CAP uses his, to agitate the cell phone freaks. :teeth:
I laughed 'til I had tears! :giggle7yc: What I wouldn't give for this some days! That would wake some drivers up. It may just blow them off the road. If you're a Rio Grande fan though, you'd have to mount them over the cab.
I would *LOVE* to buy a setup in which the sound was "scaled down" a bit for road vehicles and that I could select an air horn or a steam whistle. It would seem to me that with the quality of speakers and the electronics available, someone could figure out how to build a set that can be installed into a vehicle.
Check out this web site. When they can't get a recording of a certain model on a train, these guys mount horns on trucks so they can record them moving to get the doppler shift. They even show a photo of a huge ship horn in a pick up truck bed.
When I can get the money together, I'm gonna get a set! Like the sounds of either the Nathan P3 or the Nathan M3 air horns. Personal opinion there though! Check http://www.groverairhorns.com/Sounds/sounds.html Need to scroll down to find the Nathan P3/M3 horns.
I work at a well known independant tire store chain here in the Seattle area, (ok, Les Schwab Tires, if I can put in a shameless plug,), and we have a customer who lives in Alaska and commutes down here twice a month in a lifted Ford that has a really nice Nathan "3 chime" under the frame rails. Not cause he's a railfan, but to get the Moose off the roads!! :teeth: He blew a few shorts in the shop and had half the crew running for cover!! Ha, ha,ha!!
