SALT LAKE CITY — Those loud train horns that you keep hearing aren’t going to stop just yet. There are two crossings left that still need fixing. On Sept. 30, the Federal Railroad Administration ...
Caltrain trains arrive at the downtown Palo Alto train station. Embarcadero Media file photo by Veronica Weber. Palo Alto and Menlo Park residents who live near the railroad tracks have a common ...
WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. — Life along Country Lane, a rural road in a community on the outskirts of Bellingham, is quiet and peaceful -- except for one thing -- the recurring blast of train horns as they ...
The horns of locomotives along the Florida East Coast Railway line will remain largely silent after the Federal Railway Administration decided that Broward County has done enough to address safety ...
Question: I’m curious about why trains use a Morse code signal when approaching crossings. Answer: For anyone confused by that question, next time you’re waiting at a railroad crossing listen to the ...
In recent discussions surrounding train crossings, there has been a proposal to create quiet zones, where warning devices such as train horns would be eliminated. While the idea of reducing noise ...
City and federal officials met Friday to detail what San Diego must do to fix safety problems at railroad crossings, two days after the issues prompted the temporary suspension of a designated train ...
In 2019, Appleton created a quiet zone for the Canadian National main line that runs diagonally through the city.
A paranoid Los Angeles man has been blaring deafening horns that can be heard for miles around for several minutes every day — vowing to “keep on blowing” even after he was finally arrested. Gary ...
An effort to force the MBTA to sound train horns at every pedestrian crossing that cuts through a station is heading to a showdown next month in Suffolk County Superior Court when lawyers will argue ...
Depending on where you are in Houston, seeing the city’s network of trains coursing through your neighborhood or on your commute might be a daily occurrence. While the passing train and the blasts of ...