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Re: Cool monorail shots

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Re: Cool monorail shots

Post by Big Wallaby » Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:10 am

ktulu wrote:I am thinking of putting the same horn on the monorails onto my Jeep, got that idea from that site ;)
I want to be there... to see your reaction.

I love blowing the monorail horn over crowds of people.


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Re: Cool monorail shots

Post by ktulu » Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:01 am

Big Wallaby wrote:I want to be there... to see your reaction.

I love blowing the monorail horn over crowds of people.
The joyous laughter that will come out? I've been next to a guy blowing a train horn, much like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTBB6WOD ... re=related

Not him, but similar :)

Hey BW, can you tell me if the horns are two separate ones, or are the joined together?


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Re: Cool monorail shots

Post by Big Wallaby » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:43 pm

Nah, first time you blow the thing, you'll have this wonderful look of surprise... then the laughter will come. It'll be awesome.

Does anyone know the part number for a Monorail horn?


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Re: Cool monorail shots

Post by ktulu » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:31 pm

Big Wallaby wrote:Nah, first time you blow the thing, you'll have this wonderful look of surprise... then the laughter will come. It'll be awesome.
Oh yes :)
Does anyone know the part number for a Monorail horn?
At least at Disneyland, I'm not sure if it is the same at WDW.

Grover #1055

Apparantly they make a kit that includes a compressor/small tank. That will fit on my Jeep :)


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Post by BRWombat » Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:57 pm

ktulu wrote:Oh yes :)



At least at Disneyland, I'm not sure if it is the same at WDW.

Grover #1055

Apparantly they make a kit that includes a compressor/small tank. That will fit on my Jeep :)
I so want one. It would be a great addition to my Honda Civic, the factory horn of which is pretty pathetic.


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Re: Cool monorail shots

Post by ktulu » Fri Jan 30, 2009 4:47 pm

So the guys at the Monorail Society says that the #1055 is at WDW, and they are not sure what they use at Disneyland.

I wonder if they use the same ones...

Hey BW, you could always ask at the shop or measure them and look around them ;)


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Re: Cool monorail shots

Post by Big Wallaby » Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:38 am

Now, just to find the place to purchase them...

During the 80's and 90's, Prevost put their air horn button at the driver's left heel. There were a couple times, before I got used to that, that I would be getting up out of the driver's seat and letting everyone know we had arrived.


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Re: Cool monorail shots

Post by Monorail_Red » Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:28 pm

ktulu wrote:So the guys at the Monorail Society says that the #1055 is at WDW, and they are not sure what they use at Disneyland.

I wonder if they use the same ones...

Hey BW, you could always ask at the shop or measure them and look around them ;)
I think that it was the Mark V's that had the grovers, I remeber reading something out there that got into how they got to look at the model # on the DL trains.

Too bad there's no place for me to put a 40" air horn on my Colorado.....

Let me know if you guys find anything out!!


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Re: Cool monorail shots

Post by ktulu » Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:58 pm

Big Wallaby wrote:Now, just to find the place to purchase them...
http://www.airhorns.com/

It is only 2.5 miles from where my dad works in LA. I called on friday to get pricing, but their customer service department was closed. I then called Dad to find out if he could stop by sometime soon :)

Once I know more about pricing I'll post. There is a kit for vehicles without onboard air. I was already thinking about putting onboard air onto my Jeep, so I might have to do some price comparisons.
Monorail_Red wrote:I think that it was the Mark V's that had the grovers, I remeber reading something out there that got into how they got to look at the model # on the DL trains.

Too bad there's no place for me to put a 40" air horn on my Colorado.....

Let me know if you guys find anything out!!
Yeah, the guys at the monorail society put them in their cars. I emailed them about it, and they said it was the WDW trains and they weren't sure what DL used. The Grover #1055 is only 34". One of them put two of them in the truck of a '93 taurus. I'll be mounting them on a 2001 Jeep Wrangler :)

If DL is still using Grover horns, they may be using the #1056's, just a guess based on pictures I've seen. I'm still going with dual #1055's :D:


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