How many Fire Houses in NJ still have a steam engine tire hanging in front, to use as an alarm bell?
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by railbird
i remember one in audubon up to a few yrs ago . they closed the firehouse though, and i dont know what happened to it.
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by NY&LB
There's one in Middletown, Route 35 southbound about 1 mile before Red Bank.
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by james1787
Ours was up until 1992 (Chatham Twp Fire Dept) when our building was torn down to build a larger firehouse on River Road. The steam engine tire is now affixed to the side of the building near the lower entrance on the rear of the building. We would have put it up, but due to the building's larger size, there was no place to hang it. I doubt it has seen use as an alarm bell in years as radio paging devices came out in the 60's and 70's and they used the sirens put in during the cold war before that (there is only one operational surviving siren in town).
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by raced1111
There is one hanging in front of the fire house in Milford. I often wondered what it was for, now I know.
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by wis bang
Cranbury, NJ re-hung theirs a few years ago when they built a new building, article in the local weekly paper even listed what PRR loco the tire came from & how the young guy re-making the support frame was using Locust wood just like the original frame due to it's rot resistance.
Another one hangs on Rt-130 in Washington Twsp [mercer cnty]
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by Ken W2KB
By me, Califon, Hunterdon County, and Chester, Morris County. I've seen more around the area, but don't recall specifically where.
Used to be one at the corner of Blanch Ave and Summit St. in Norwood. Used to sit in it when I was a tiny kid, never knew what it was made from. Thanks, guys!
For the most part they were old locomotive wheels. The fire company I'm a member of had one in the early 1900's, it was replaced with an electric siren.
In Ringwood, the next town up from me, the Stonetown Fire Company has a loco wheel hung in front of their firehouse.
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by Dougster
I beleive Lavalette in Ocean county has one in front of their firehouse.