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The topic query: How to tell when the train is coming. Watch a near by signal? Listen on a scanner? Have a timetable (for you rail workers)? Listen for the rails to 'hiss'? Or your trusty ears? Or a different way? I'll take all the above, plus a side order of fries, please. [:p] Mainline signals that go from four reds to three reds and a green have worked well for me. Scanners tell me that something is coming, but not necessarily how quickly; all the more so for equipment detectors. Timetables are guidelines, not rules -- I think we all understand that. It does seem to me that, although sometimes I can hear rail "hiss," the scratchy sound of pre-ribbon rail days was a bit more pronounced (but then, I have lost some hearing). My ears--thru the air--is probably the safest. I would also add "My eyes" because the headlights on the newer stock is so strong, on an overcast day or late afternoon in Rochelle, it happens quite often that we can see those triples shining on the rails before the engine is heard. [bow] Oh, and on the UP commuter line I sometimes ride (from Rogers Park station), sound is only a sometimes thing, especially since going downtown the loco is stationed at the rear of the train (the north end), pushing. But I can count on the flutter among the native wildlife: the commuters at the north end of the platform get all a-twitter when they sense/hear/see the train a-comin'! [:p]
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