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Seriously. A buddy of mine had a set, said he picked them up at the county dump where someone had thrown them away. That turned out to not be the case as was later discovered. But that is another story…

There was five trumpet shaped horns of various lengths and sizes up to about 3 ft long on a single manifold. He set them in the back of his service truck and plumbed them in with an air tank. He had a 1/4 ball valve mounted in the truck cab to release the air from the tank into the horn manifold. You could literally hear them for three miles.

He had some good stories about folks with their heads up their ass or on a cell phone not paying attention at green lights! His helper commented one time, just don’t ever blow it when a little old lady is carrying her grocery’s to her car in the krogers parking lot!
I don’t see how it kept from cracking the windows in his truck.

Yeah - they're a common addition to big trucks and I had a friend in HS who had a set plumbed into his Geo Prism. Saved for scaring people walking along, not paying attention. Lotta noise in that little car....

Yes. We hid a set in the bushes next to the front door of a classroom building at college.


It was across the street from the diesel shop where we were.

Our fun was mostly well received....until we honked an Auto teacher.


Fugg was he mad.

These were not your everyday air horns.

I've always wanted to get one and mount it to a wagon and run out of random yards at night with a spotlight aimed towards cars sitting at stop signs.

Right.


The school had an agreement with the BNSF to service and repair the HVAC units on the GE engines.

Plus....we supplied techs to the GE engine shop.



We had access to train horns.

My Dad had a steam whistle from an old steam locomotive on his Aultman-Taylor steam tractor. It was deafening.

We lived on a farm on the north side of the BN SF main line between Denver and Chicago. Many freight trains and Amtrak each day. Many times I would be on a tractor working the ground close to the tracks and have a train come up behind me. Engineer would blow the horn and you would almost jump right off the tractor. Learned to swivel head for sure.

I've been known to have a set or 2 laying around

A friend of mine had a set at his camp at Cypremort Point, Louisiana. He had an old school air raid siren too. His Suburban was fitted with a set of Flowmasters which probably wouldn't pass legal scrutiny either.

No horns but I have a train headlight. Not sure what engine it’s from, it was here when my parents bought this place in the 60’s. Former owner worked in the RR shops. Also had a steam heated chicken house, guess where the boiler and pipes came from?

Dale

A friend of mine and his partners in crime had one mounted on an old school bus they converted into transportation to NASCAR races. You could hear them coming from a long way off.

Be interestin, ta sit at a single track crossing and when a train's comin through blowin it's own horn, blow one back at it.

There is a crossing in Ohio that has the track bed is cut thru a hill and the edge is lined with a fence row. I would often have to stop the locomotive there waiting for other train traffic. I would get within 150 feet of the crossing and turn off all lights including the number and running lights and wait for an unsuspecting motorist to approach and then hit the ditch lights and the horn and scare the [bleep] out of them before they crossed. Now that the Rail Road have cameras mounted inside the cab those schenanigans are over.

Funny you should ask. We have (had) an asswipe that in the process of coming through our gates every morning, would blow his obnoxious train horn right at the gate which is covered and it was real painful on the ears for our guards. Turns out to be a contractor working on base and today we bushwachked him. DoN puckered him up so good he won't crap for a week AND he voluntarily removed the horn right there in the parking lot.

I've never owned any but, my father had a set on his car when I was a little kid. He was a fun loving guy that didn't give a schitt what other people thought.