I'm glad a lot of people got to experience that. As a kid growing up in Garland I was mesmerized by these things.

This is unbelievably cool.

Definitely sounds like a malfunction situation.

Looks more flowery lol

I like how the first bolt has a bench ware the blower was I don't know why but I like it a lot. I wonder if its called the siren bench lol. Lol I don't know if it has a name but that is a good one. This one appears to have been preserved by the city of Dallas. When I was a kid, I remember a fence a...

HudsonRiverSirens wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:53 am

In the last photo, is that antenna/beacon thing a post-deactivation install, or was it there when the siren was active?

I believe it was installed when the siren was. It has been on there ever since I first saw it over 30 years ago.

I've snapped a few photos of some of the old thunderbolts that are still standing around Dallas.

Yeah, Penetrator sirens are getting rarer and rarer considering the newest models (RM-127/130) are going on 20+ years old now.

I remember hearing the Chrysler sirens were started by hand and a person would "ride" behind the siren while it spins controlling the engine throttle, thus affected the sound output.