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<p>[quote user="Semper Vaporo"]</p> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/trccs/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Sawtooth500:</strong></div> <div></div> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/trccs/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Dutchrailnut:</strong></div> <div></div> <p> Railroad right of way extends to 35 feet from nearest rail in nearly all (99.5%) of all rail ROW.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </blockquote> </p> <p>From where did you get that statistic?</p> <p>And, another thing I'd like to say, how in the world does someone NOT hear a train approaching without the bell or whistle if they are a pedestrian? Trains aren't exactly known for the subtlety...</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </blockquote> </p> <p> </p> <p>Yes, trains are big and trains are noisy, but the human mind is quite capable of igorning big noisy things. You get used to hearing them and your mind tunes them out.</p> <p>I like trains and WANT to see them... I'll go out of my way to see them!.</p> <p>Where my son used to live he was about a block from a busy dual track mainline where trains run fast and noisy and there was a grade crossing at that block away and another one a two blocks to the west. When he first moved there the trains were a bit of a nuisance, interrupting conversations with the near constant horn-blowing as it went through town.</p> <p>But after a few months, even only visiting him once a week or less, we would be sitting on his deck beside his house, chatting and he would see a train go by and ask what kind of engine it was that just went by and I would ask "What train?" Yes, I guess I heard it, but it did not make enough of an impression on me to glance up and LOOK at it.</p> <p>Lots of accidents occur because people fail to recognize the train coming.</p> <p>Many people have asked me why I never went to work for a Railroad. The reason is simple; I KNOW that I would be dead in a month or less because I do not have enough "self-situational-awareness" and would be ground to hamburger because I'd wander in front of a train because I was looking at another one.</p> <p> </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">The mind can tune out the sound of approaching trains, but also, ambient noise can mask the sound of an approaching train. Such ambient noise could be traffic, wind, radio, I-phones, and other trains that are nearby. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Extremly cold weather such as below zero, greatly reduces sound transmission from trains. Fresh snow can muffle the sound of train and locomotive wheels, making a coasting train surprisingly quiet. Parka hoods or ear muffs reduce the sense of hearing. Some people are just hard of hearing. So because of all of these reasons that people might have a hard time hearing trains, they blow horns and ring bells.</span></span></p>
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