Kind of nice, they have kind of a German ethnic feel to them. Perfect for the rocky track motion too. 
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Chicken Dance?
You could put a ship horn on a locomotive and someone would still say they didn’t hear it.
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So maybe the concept is outdated? One hundred years ago, automobiles were required to blow horns at every crossroad. It didn’t work. Grade separation needed, Have proper level crossings when necessary or close them. $1.5 trillion would more than get it done.
While I agree in principle, in some places such a separation would badly disrupt the neighborhood. Grade separations require real estate.
Underpass takes less. Or simply close some crossings.
Depending on the terrain - underpasses have a high frequency of flooding during storms.
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So…? A temporary inconvenience easily offset by not havening to wait 5 minutes or more multiple times per day at level crossings.
No one has yet to tell what the actual story is with this apparently programmable playable horn cluster.
It’s an April Fool’s joke. You’re supposed to think back to the centennial horn that blew a bar from O Canada and think ‘there go those kooky Canucks again’.
I liked that Centennial horn.
You can get car horns that play short identifiable segments of songs. Including several politically incorrect ones!
What I want is the horn on this thing
which I saw, completely unattended (!) outside the old Hill and Vaughn shop in 1989, and walked around for the better part of 2 hours – every detail on it was perfect, exactly the way I’d have done it… including the horn, which was motor-driven with a revolving disc like that from a disc music box actuating what looked like at least two octaves’ worth of little curved trumpet bells. THAT was any train-horn chord you could want…
No audio clip? Gotta have it now!
I didn’t even think of getting in and trying the horn, and I missed Pebble Beach that year. I don’t know whether they demonstrated the horn there, but they sure missed an opportunity if they didn’t.
Now that you’ve reminded me, I may get with one of the online music-box groups and see if the horn was a ‘known’ commercial product – as it surely should have been…
There is a siren manufacturer (fire trucks especially) that makes a unit with a USB port, so you can play anything you want through the speaker…
Its been said that when multi-chime steam whistles came about in the later 19th century, some engineers found out that by carefully regulating how much steam they allowed into the whistle, they could sound each individual chime rather than just all at once. Apparently, with a six-chime, some engineers could actually play tunes.
I could do that with some Leslie S-5 horns.
Mark