It’s ironic that I read the other posting about this same thing here. So I figured if there was a first part, I would add a second part to it.
This was on the news today in Cincinnati on Channel 9 ABC. It’s actually just down the road from me.
All I can say is poor baby. Maybe they should just move the tracks.lol
For the record, when it was on the news this evening it was stated that there are 2 other crossings right in his same area, within close proximity of his crossing.
WELL… If their are more then one crossing in the same area it is always 2 long 1 short 1 long hold on the long until you passed the last crossing. If the crossings are far a part then it 2 long 1 short 1 long.
In Walton Ky they have NS and CSX that go through their town. On NS there are 2 crossings to blow at just the same way, as is the two crossings on CSX.
On my way home from work, when I cross CSX every now and then you will here NS blowing. It will scare the, “You know what out of you” when you are in the middle of the CSX crossing and you here the other RR blowing the same time. It’s happened to me a few times and I still can’t get used to it.
Sounds to me like they’re just following the rules to a “T,” always guaranteed to make people unhappy. I just looked through the NORAC rules and couldn’t find the amount of time the horn should be sounded before reaching the crossing. Fifteen to twenty seconds sticks in my mind.
Based on the video, those trains are moving. Maybe the homeowner wants to take responsibility for any accidents that might occur there, in which case they can stop blowing for the crossing…
We sit close to two crossings that are exactly 1 block apart. The engineers whistle well before the first one and whistle all the way thru it, between the crossings and all the way thru the 2nd one.
I love trains. The horns are obnoxious. They nearly deafen me when my window is down in the car.
But sitting there watching them, I would never want anything that big and that heavy to ever sneak up on me and not make a noise (granted if they are GE’s at slow speed you will always hear them coming ), but not if your radio is blasting and your windows are up. (sorry GE - it is just that you still sound like a garbage truck working to me!)
Actually, what they’re doing for the Union Pacific tracks that goes north-south through downtown Sacramento, CA between 19th and 20th Streets is a system of much more sophisticated barriers and better warning systems. This allows UP to not blow the horn all the way through downtown.
I live almost one mile from the old Rock Island mains in new Lenox, Illinois. Metra and Iowa Interstate come through from about 6AM until 11PM and the horn blowing isn’t too bad. In fact most of the time I am totaly unaware of it. During the night CSX has runs that go From Barr Yard west toward Ottawa Illinois. Invariably they have a couple of engineers with the attitude, “If I am up the whole town is going to be”. They blow longer and louder than the trains when people are around. Several tie down the horn for four crossing more than a mile apart each. Excessive and totaly unwarranted in my opinion.
In some ways I do have to agree with the guy. But on the other hand, you should know that if you buy a home right next to the tracks, I think you should be smart enough to know that trains use their horns.
What people don’t seem to understand is, those horns are for the public’s safety not for the railroad’s. I live beside a mainline and the horns don’t bother me a bit! For safety’s sake i’d rather hear them than not hear them!! I guess now he’ll want to sue the railroad. In LaGrange ky. CSX can’t sound their horns any more.Maybe they’ll change their minds after somone gets killed! Mike H.
i moved next to cnw now up double track mainline years ago when i wasnt a rail fan and got used to the blowing at crossing in a couple of weeks. sometimes i used ear plugs. ya get used to it after time, but man did i dislike it when a engineer with a attitude would lay on horn all way thru at 3am with no cars around!!
'since im awake so will everyone else!! loud louie[}:)]
First of all, I doubt that they are blowing the horn louder, since newer locos do not have a control for this. I think CSX still uses their GP15t’s on this run, and they have the horn set at the same volume all the time. The only thing an engineer can control is the length. Second, are you at the crossings to see if the horn needs to be used more? From what I have seen, it is often the case where the people out at night are the ones that are in need of a little motavation to stop at a crossing, more so than those during the day. Just because less people are out at that time does not mean the danger is any less.
IT has happend to me a few times like where I would just pull up a crossing and the gates just come down and he just lays on his horn and yes it does scare the blank out of me but. I get over it and just love it cause I just know someone down the line is getting ready to call the railroad to tell them to shove that horn up you know where.