How much do you know about trainhorns?

[carcrazed484]

Hey! Does anyone here knows about train horns? I am thinking of installing one for my car. What do you think? I hope to get some opinions first before I proceed with my plan. Thanks in advance.

[unchained01]

I work for a railroad and use them every day. Lol. You gotta find one first. Usually there are 2/3 in a pod. Plus u can't use one of those compact fender mount compressors They are plumbed with steel line and use 75 to 90 psi to operate correctly. Anything less and they sound like a Lonesome Moose. LMAO !!! Thats all I know so there ya go.

[Azrael]

A guy in my car club did this and installed the compressor in the spare tire well. However, it doesn't sound quite right since it can't maintain the pressure it needs.

[RednBlack]

I'll bite. Just what in the f*** are you going to do with a train horn? Does it involve a car? Maybe an alarm of sorts?

[Azrael]

The guy I know that did it said it was for all the drivers in Winnipeg who like to cut people off and that a regular horn wasn't enough to voice his displeasure at them.

[Futures Passed]

If I used a horn to express displeasure, I'd want it to sound like gun shots, not a brass musical instrument.

[berettaboi]

you can buy the kit at your local auto parts store. usually around $40-50. comes with a small dedicated and momentary compressor (no air tank), and a dual trumpet horn mounted on one manifold. they sound pretty good for what they are, but no comparison to the longer and real thing.

[carcrazed484]

thanks everyone for your feedback. i have spent some time looking into this, and many people have suggested websites online like http://trainhorns.net, or ebay to buy a complete kit that comes with an air tank and everything. the problem i am having is selecting which kit i want to buy... and i have no idea which i should choose.

i want something that is pretty loud, but i dont want to cause harm to myself or anyone else around my car. so if anyone here is familiar with train horns/kits... please give me some tips. thanks again.

[pocket-rocket]

There are a few guys on www.therangerstation.com (Ford Ranger forum I'm on, but haven't visited for some time) that are running train horns. Some put a switch in place so they could either run their standard truck horn, or power the train horn solenoid with the factory truck horn when the horn was pressed, that way it's harder to hit the train horn on accident. I think a few guys got some of the larger horns that ran a couple hundred $$$ from trainhorns.net and were pretty happy with them.