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Train Horns and Whistles - Too Quiet?
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I settled into chair with coffee to read this thread and got to where the sound levels were to be and I had to speak up. <br /> <br />If you are going to have 4 6000 Horse deisals thundering and roaring to keep that 110 car train rolling over the slight grade my town sits at about 30 miles an hour that 110 deciable horn will disappear into the screech of the turbos. <br /> <br />They run heavy and fast.. It takes 16 seconds for top speed from first whistle to crossing gates and train on crossing. Sometimes they would be a mile and just finishing a meet the gates go down a minute passes and no train, suddenly the drama of impatient drivers finding themselfs confronting a blasting horn 20 yards away is too much to watch. <br /> <br />The range of 100 feet specified in the whistle is too little and very unsafe. The main reason to whistle is to clear the track NOW and if you want to live wait until the train passes. <br /> <br />IF you cannot stand a train whistle maybe a option of putting home on market and moving at least 10 miles from the track may be needed. <br /> <br />I have to smile also because truckers are buying the very same railroad whistles and placing them on their rigs. I would be so tickled to see these same lawmakers considering this bill to have on of those go off nearby on the interstate. The very ground shakes. <br /> <br />I am in support of good whistles and common sense dictates that people wait becuase after all a train is much bigger than they are and have power to kill or main if they choose to try and save a minute of time. It could mean forever. Dont go around those gates.
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