Chrysler Siren Pittsburgh, PA.

[@Montecat33]

As an air raid siren buff, this is was an absolute joy to watch! Great video.

[@willthetrill4849]

Thank you for actually running this siren at full rpm. I’ve read one of your comments saying you currently have issues getting it started. If you ask this KZbin channel, @Nicks Garage, he’ll tell you all about Hemi engines. If you want to or if you’re able to, every summer there’s a siren event called “Siren Con”. You can bring this siren there if you resolve the starting issues because there’s one guy who recently restored a gas engined B&N Mobil Directo that’s going to the event. His KZbin channel is @Jerry Wick. He documented the whole restoration. It would be awesome to see both yours and his at Siren Con

[@harrybarry2291]

Thanks.

[@harrybarry2291]

Thank you so much.

[@southwesternpasirens]

Woah that’s pretty damn cool to see another Chrysler in full power

[@omgcool7206]

It's always neat seeing a classic Hemi being chauffeured by its great great (etc.) grandchild (the Hemi Ram), but this is possibly the coolest pairing I've seen. Incredible piece of not only Mopar history, but also US history that not a lot of people these days know about. Pretty darn cool!

[@harrybarry2291]

Glad you like it.

[@SPCpittsburgh0012]

This is amazing. I never knew we had Chryslers in Pittsburgh. I grew up in Glassport PA which had a Thunderbolt siren until about 2010.

[@harrybarry2291]

Yes, Pittsburgh is a major target for an attack with its vital industrial output. I believe there was also one in Carrick.

[@therailcat9790]

Allegheny county used to have a system of thunderbolts but the system was abandoned and most of the remaining bolts are inactive

[@benjroof]

i love this video.Many regards from The Netherlands.

[@WhitfieldProductionsTV]

full tilt, finally some one ran it up. sweet.

[@connorcruz6249]

Looks and sounds fantastic!!!!

[@fish_sticks_the_cat]

because i want a green one to be like the one in seattle that got removed

[@brianwarner308]

I was reading about Hemi engines today on Wikipedia when it mentioned these..super cool....I live 45 minutes from pittsburgh in weirton WV I hope to see one of these someday....it looks like there maybe some left in pittsburgh.

[@harrybarry2291]

The only other one I knew of in Pittsburgh was one on Carrick High School. I had never seen or heard it. The one I have from my school, as you can see, was high above the city and surrounding area, great coverage. I would imagine that Pittsburgh being an important target would have had more. Detroit. MI. had about six or seven. Some friends of mine got some of them. I also collect steam whistles and a friend of mine in Weirton did also. His name was Pete Warzynski. Check out my you tube whistle postings. They have a beautiful old sound.

[@nickpaul844]

​@harrybarry2291 hey Mr barry, you should bring this to sirencon this year

[@torilink4630]

Pretty awesome tornado siren

[@torilink4630]

I love that siren

[@joemama38]

I want one of these sirens

[@Russia-bois]

Send this badass to sirencon!

[@triclamite]

underrated channel

[@therailcat9790]

I’m in beaver county, PA next to Allegheny

[@torilink4630]

I love that they so cool

[@Crack_Roach]

Wow to see it WOT is honestly kinda scary sounding. Great video.

[@MarcusToroian]

What an absolute treat. I’m just over in Altoona. Unfortunately I can’t hear it THAT far away haha

[@supertyfon1736]

Have you heard of one of the LA sirens being heard on Catalina island? Because one mounted on a small 1800 foot mountain at the Cerro negro lookout could be heard on the island 59 miles from it's position.

[@harrybarry2291]

Interesting. Being 1800 feet high and over water, that is ideal conditions for sound travel.

[@supertyfon1736]

@@harrybarry2291 Yep higher makes sound travel farther. Your siren was mounted pretty high on your school lets hope the kids ears were okay when it went off.

[@Thunderbolt505T]

138db... I would've been able to hear this from my house 20 miles up the Allegheny river. Not many things louder than this.

[@northdakotasirens1520]

Great Review!!

[@MrNickwilliams1]

I'm from Pittsburgh can you please let me come check this thing out it's my dream to be able to see one of these in person

[@harrybarry2291]

Presently the engine isn't running. From what I checked, I don't think is serious. I hope to have it running before Summer. I need to find someone who knows the old Chrysler hemi V-8's. You are very welcome here to see it in person and I can show you my steam whistle collection. Check out my steam whistle postings on you tube. How can we keep in touch ?.

[@harrybarry2291]

You are very welcome. Presently, I think it has a timing problem and will not run. I don't think it is too serious. You can visit and see it and I can demonstrate some of my pretty sounding steam whistles. I have posted some of them on you tube. I live 15 miles East of Erie, PA right on the Lake Road, RT. 5.

[@MrNickwilliams1]

@@harrybarry2291 could I have your email address I been trying to comment on this post for a year and it never seems to let me maybe today it will let me

[@TheCasualSirenEnthusiast]

Very good mic

[@fish_sticks_the_cat]

there is one in seattle that i want edit welp it’s gone… R.I.P

[@neohistoryfan1014]

Were these things ever used for tornado warnings in the Midwest? I bet they were!

[@harrybarry2291]

They could have been. After the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Cold War was over, some fire Departments got a few. Overkill, unreal power.

[@neohistoryfan1014]

@@harrybarry2291 I knew it! Most cities use the alert signal (a 3 to 5 minute continuous blast) for tornado warnings/natural disasters. In a city with these, there were only a few of them unlike today’s systems, which need 30 or more siren units. There was a World War 2 variant in Akron, on the city hall building, which was removed at the end of WW2. Akron never had a civil defense siren network during the Cold War. Barberton still has a 1st generation Federal Thunderbolt 1000!! They only went off for tests or weather warnings. My dad and his brothers grew up in Akron during the Cold War and actually experienced the Cuban missile crisis!! They were taught about civil defense and what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. If Akron ever received a warning, the civil defense Director would order the fire department to pull out one of their trucks and have the siren wail (3 to 5 minute continuous blast for natural disasters; 3 to 5 minute rising and falling wail for nuclear attacks/air raids). Akron had special telephone circuits for civil defense purposes, the bell/light warning system for public/industrial buildings and schools of all types, and the National Emergency Alarm Repeater (N. E. A. R.) network. All the public buildings and schools had fallout shelters and some still do to this day!

[@harrybarry2291]

@@neohistoryfan1014 Thanks very much for your interesting reply. I grew up in the 50s and 60s and remember the "Duck and Cover" school drills and such. Soon after the "Cold War", nuclear attack drills were phased out. With the U.S. and U.S.S.R., they had enough nuclear weapons to ruin the whole planet.. It was called "Mutual Assured Destruction" ( M.A.D.). No winners, all losers. An old saying, "The living will envy the dead". Check nuclear war on you tube. It is scary and sad. If mad man Putin could incinerate the U.S., without retaliation, he would. He has no soul to say the least. I hope Russia has a good nuclear launch failsafe system, like we do. If Putin the ability alone, God help the World.

[@warningsirensofmichio9660]

Nice

[@TheGwangi99]

Hi Harry! Do you still have this? I'd love to check it out!

[@harrybarry2291]

Hi, yes I have it but the engine is not running presently. It is a mystery. Compression good, carb rebuilt and things seem to check out. I don't think it is anything serious. You are welcome to visit and see it. I have some powerful steam whistles we can toot. Check out my postings, All 12 inch chimes and others.

[@GSPiedmont425]

Epic

[@derekwall200]

man it seems like everytime people kick the siren chopper over and go full power it ends up blowing a shitload of dust out of the projectors. but i suppose that is too be expected after running a siren that has sat silent for several decades

[@csk1022]

Very Nice Harry

[@zachz96]

How did it not set that tree on fire or blow out your eardrums?

[@harrybarry2291]

The output of them is overwhelming. In order to set something on fire, it would probably have to very dry, thin like tissue paper and right in front of the projectors. You must wear good earing protection, like a quality set of earcups. Then you can't stand close in front of the projectors. The soundwave will vibrate your skull and bypass the ears. Before I got use to it, standing on the side working the controls would make me nauseated after a minute or so. Most towns have a 10 hp siren, like Ripley, N.Y., a Federal STH 10. I can hear it 5 miles away at our place. The Chryslers are 180 hp with a three stage supercharger blower before the air stream is chopped by the chopper plate.

[@nickpaul844]

Cool

[@michaelconstantinou9121]

how do you speed up the siren on the side?

[@harrybarry2291]

The Chryslers have a manual throttle and an electric solenoid switch on the panel. When the switch is closed, a solenoid pulls the throttle wide open. They are designed to run full throttle, 4,600 rpm, for max power. Some postings show the throttle partly open. That does not let the spectators hear and feel its impressive capability.

[@michaelconstantinou9121]

@@harrybarry2291 thank you for letting me know i wish we had these in Canada

[@TheLastMarch2.0]

@@michaelconstantinou9121 some were possibly shipped to Manitoba

[@Brandon-vp1if]

Hello Harry. My father has been looking into the history of these in the Pittsburgh area recently. I am from Mount Washington and found this pretty interesting. I had some questions and was wondering if you had an email or other way to contact you. thanks!

[@harrybarry2291]

Hi Brandon, my E Mail is, [e-mail]

[@ThunderboltSirenStudios]

These 2nd generation Chryslers were only made from 1952-1957. Not on the 60's.

[@harrybarry2291]

Yes indeed. I goofed on my description. My Pittsburgh one was installed, I believe, in the early 50's and ran till around 1970.

[@ThunderboltSirenStudios]

@@harrybarry2291 yeah, that sounds about right. 20 years of service 🫡

[@BRISTOLFORCE2009]

Does the current location have a 3T22 next to it

[@harrybarry2291]

Not sure I understand. I never had a 3T22. Please clarify.

[@BRISTOLFORCE2009]

Where the Chrysler was

[@joshuamuir7577]

hey harry, can you do a full release of the 2013 whistles on the water event? ive been really wanting to know what whistles where there that year.

[@harrybarry2291]

I will check what I have for that year. I have most of them on dvd.

[@JBF-GST-Tanda]

All the mice and rats and voles and gophers in the woods might be killed by the siren's noise.

[@HAWAIISURF808]

boomer chad

[@torilink4630]

Hi huh HV the