Train air horn

[liamxj]

were can you get a full set of air horns off of a train. got a big horn edition and need one to match. thanks



Will

 

[RHARVEY]

If your talking true freight train horns. . (Air Chimes)... I dont believe you can buy them from a company and legally run them on your vehicle. . :-laf :-laf :-laf . . Does that stop me from wanting a set. . heck no!

Here is their website for drooling purposes...



http://www.airchime.bc.ca/



Rick

 

[dtygart]

Guess you will have to sneak into the train yard late at night with your wrenches... can you imagine the volume of air these chimes would need?

david

 

[liamxj]

I live in Golden and there is a railroad museum in town. i wonder if i pay him a visit if if can get a full set threw him. i will check this weekend and if i can i will let yall know if we can get more than one set if anyone is inturested.



Will

 

[RHARVEY]

My buddy runs them on his Peterbilt off of the onboard air system... so what ever that is. .

And they really sound sweet!



Rick

 

[liamxj]

dont they run at fairly low psi also? so a 2. 5 gallon tank with 100psi would be good most of the time i think.

 

[RHARVEY]

I feel that they would ... . but boy would they require the volume... ! My buddy loves to cause people to have underware issues :-laf :-laf





Rick

 

[MRosinski]

This I would think is my next mod :-laf It would make rush hour traffic alot more interesting. How many decibles would 660 Hz be?

 

[RHARVEY]

I have a couple of 24" grovers mounted under the frame. They are connected to my stock horns ... Its fun to watch the reactions of people standing on the sidewalk...

We were in L. A. stop and go traffic when I got stopped next to a convertable sports car. The driver was on the phone at the time that I felt the urge to vent some air... right next to his car... . :-laf :-laf :-laf ...

Dont care who you are that was funny!



Rick

 

[ohnoitsyu]

This I would think is my next mod :-laf It would make rush hour traffic alot more interesting. How many decibles would 660 Hz be?

660 hertz is the frequency - the sound wave of 660 cycles per second. 660 Hz could be as quiet as 60 dB or as loud (or louder) as 150 dB.

 

[SHobbs]

On the locomotives we run 140psi in the main air tank. Not sure exactly what is needed to power the horn though. After hours and hours of sitting directly under one of these things at work the last thing I want is to have one on the truck. o each his own though, lol. They are loud enough to make a cup vibrate in your hand.

 

[wraney]

i have a set of the 3chime, nathan air chimes under the bed of my truck, real loud. i use a compressor from the automatic air leveling set up off a caddy. its design is to mount under vehicle.

 

[bmoeller]

660 hertz is the frequency - the sound wave of 660 cycles per second. 660 Hz could be as quiet as 60 dB or as loud (or louder) as 150 dB.

Probably 150db. Would'nt be very effective at 60db on a train.



You'd probably need 3/8" line for train horns. I know the ones that www.iowa80.com sell do.



The set of 5 trumpets may even need 1/2" for enough air volume.

 

[nickleinonen]

Guess you will have to sneak into the train yard late at night with your wrenches... can you imagine the volume of air these chimes would need?

they are usually bolted to the roof with 1/2" bolts, so bring your 3/4" combo wrench and an 8" or 10" adjustable to break loose the piping...



they don't need as much air as you would think. sure the piping going into the horn manifold is a 1/2" npt fitting, but the hole that feeds the air into the horn isn't too big [±0. 120"]... i've got a single airchime trumpit that i rebuilt and am someday going to mount under my truck somewhere... if i get a chance, i will take a pic of the air fitting with a reference next to it so you can see how big the hole for the horn's air passage is [that multilpied by however many trumpits there are]



here is a pic of the air inlet to the air horn i have [it is the largest trumpit of a standard 3 horn air chime loco horn setup]

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[Turbo Thom]

Let me know what you want, and I'll let you know what I can get.



. . Preston. .

 

[dodgeguy44]

I have a set of horns off of a locomotive and have used them for quite some time. I mounted them on the back of the battery box/step on my Kenworth, pointed at a 45 degree angle down and out. They do make people on cell phones swerve a little in traffic.





They don't take much air to run them though, as has been said on a previous post, the inlet holes are small, maybe 1/16" each, so not alot of volume. Trucks run about 120 PSI.

 

[big jake 1]

I have the real train horn lever located in the cab and run 1/2 inch line from my 18 gallon air tank into and out of the valve and into the Nathan P3s located under the bed of my truck.



My compressor is a VIAIR 550C 100% duty cycle.



Anyone who has asked to hear them has been impressed, the idiots holding up traffic on I 80 while talking on their cell phones may have other opinions





BTW:



I got my compressor, air valve, tank and horns all on EBAY, you just have to know what to look for.







big jake



THE FORD GUY Oo. Oo. Oo.

 

[Willys]

Y'all should consider a york compressor with that kind of horn. On my brothers truck, we ironed out some of the details- it pumps slightly faster than mine. He can hold down the horn button, powering a 14" and 16" grovers(truck horns), and maintain about 80 psi to the 5 gallon tank. Letting off the horn button allows the pressure to jump up almost immediately. This is all at highway speeds... .



Turbo Thom, what size horns can you get? I'd like to give a train horn a shot... :-laf :-laf How much?

 

[evldsl]

Running the train horn can get you into trouble, take this story for instance. I heard from a friend that they installed a compressor and a tank good enough for 1 blast at a time before refilling the air tank for the train horns that they mounted below their truck. For grins and giggles they would park on the side road down at the tracks and watch traffic untill it stopped at the red light and if anyone was over the track or warning line they would give the horn a blast and watch the cars scramble for cover this was all good untill they were cought by the local police. They were told to remove the horns etc. etc. , I was also told that the horns were so loud that it would move the truck.

 

[MD500E]

I have a set of Leslie RS-3L from an old Conrail locomotive. I run them off of a large Nitrogen tank mounted in the bed and run the regulator at 140psi. I ran full half inch air lines and used a real train valve mounted in the cab. I first had it hooked up to a 5 gallon tank with a small compressor but the horns would drain the tank real quick. They are a lot of fun and have come in real handy a few times when pulling a 12,000lb trailer and someone just about pulls out right in front of you! I got everything on ebay. Again like Big Jake said, you just have to know what to look for. I don't know how many people tell me they have "train horns" and hit them for me, but after they hear the real thing all they want to know is why theirs don't sound anything like that! :-laf