Good evening everyone how is we all doing fine and dandy. I hope well the quite zone that is supposed to be a quite zone is not really a quite zone cause. I still here train horns as they come up to the crossings here on. Milwaukee’s south side it’s the Up line that runs from down in chicago to the butler yard up on Milwaukee’s north west side off of 124th and hampton. It does not seem like it’s every train that comes though there. But it is aleast one in every 5 trains that come on though now. When the FRA issues a quite zone for a railroad does the railroad in this instance. The Up does the dispatcher give out a print out for each train crew on where each quite zone is at or how does that work. With a railroad on another note the city of waukesha has lost it’s quite zone spot cause the city failed to get it’s renewal. Into the State on time to have the city remain a quite zone and. Residents are not happy that trains can come though the city at 2:30 or 3:00 in the morning laying on their horns as they pass though the city and as. Most people on here know that the city of waukesha is one big railroad crossing from the minute the train enters the city limits the crew just keeps right on blowing until the train engines cross the last crossing on the other side of town.
As long as those horns are a-blowing, no one will die tonight.
Let em blow. They dont like the noise? They can move away.
Erm, quite.
Quiet Zones are designated in the Time Table. Some Zones may be active only during certain times of the day. But should there be something on or about the track in the path of the train, the Quiet Zone is overrulled by safety concerns.
The FRA’s new rules governing the Zones, make them much more difficult and expensive to get.
Nick
What are quite zones? I’ve only heard of quiet zones.
Kevin
I have never understood the concept of buying a home near some tracks then kicking about the train horns. To me it is like a person who buys a home near a “abandoned” I E dormant track then they kick when the line is used again. I am thinking about buying a home near the airport. But if I hear any planes I am gonna raise h*ll.
OK my mistake that i did not spell check. I meant to spell it quiet zone not the other way around.
Gotta love the NIMBYs. Don’t like trains? Don’t live near the tracks, they were probably there first. I can see the purpose of Quiet zones, but it can be dangerous to not have proper warning.
Generally, I live in a “quiet” zone…but there are times when an engineer has to let fly on the horn at 2:30 am because some clown is on the tracks. It doesnt happen that often, but it does happen. The METRA trains are blowing their horns as the come through here as early as 5:30 am most mornings. Ever since that young lady was killed back a couple of months ago, the horn blowing has gotten bit more frequent…
I mostly only hear Metra/Amtrak/BNSF blowing there horns when there is a local train stopped in station on another track or people on the tracks… Metra riders are still bad about that in my town Clarendon Hills, on the trains headed to Aurora they get off and go around the back of the train to cross at the pedestrian crossing before the train even leaves the station.
I went upto the train to pick my dad up a few weeks back after he went to the goodman theater downtown. Anyway a few women who got off the same train as him from the last car ran around the train and across the ped crossing and no sooner than they were around the cab car out of my sight I heard an express train heading east lay on his horn just down past the road crossing. They didnt get hit but when both trains were clear I could hear the women yelling and complaining to her friends that there should be some sort of warning that there is another train coming and that they shouldnt be going so fast… [sigh]