Yeah, it was as stupid as the lifted trucks and blowing coal with fake train horns to terrorize bicyclist and Prius drivers. Yesterday, saw one with that weird "trophy truck" stance, 4x4, with the required tuner to put out a massive cloud and silly ass low profile tires on huge rims. If the...
Yeah, it was a couple of big pumps with an accumulator, all the piping and shit. They never could get it to operate correctly, or for reliably, so they went back to an air compressor and storage tank and called it a day. The whistle was (re)located to a the first main water plant in Jax that...
Reminds me of a failed project we had to build a "steam generator" using a purposely cavitating pump to power a "historic" steam whistle because it just didn't sound right using compressed air. After a $million wasted, the leaders decided the compressed air sounded fine.