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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF railfan. Just tonight this woman walked up to my dads house telling him what and why she showed up to his home. I understand that she lives just up the street from his place real near the 23rd street grade crossing. she was asking neighbors to sign a petition to stop Trains from blowing their horns into town. I am for the safety of others who need these horns to warn drivers the a train is a coming. As far as I am concerned with this,I do not and will not sign any Petition. I will give that person a word or two. Of corse you all know what will happen when or if the RR's where to be forced to silence their horns across this country. I am very angry that some people will stoop to this level to try something this dumb. And for one thing,I do not and will not sign any Petition to ban any trains from stop blowing their horns,PERIOD. Id like to tell people like that,You don't like the sound of the horns,then get the hell out of town. Allan. [/quote] Allan, I'm right with you. If the lady doesn't like it, she should move out. She needs to understand that it's a law that all trains must honk at all grade crossings. Unfortunately, there are grade crossings by my house, where the railroad has some sort of a "Silent Zone" or "Grandfather's Law", where trains can't honk. They have 60 MPH speed limits there. If anything, people should be signing petitions to allow trains to honk through those crossings. [:)] I haven't seen a wreck there yet, and I don't want too, but I'm afraid I might if trains don't honk through there, since some people drive around the gates when they're down. I just saw this happen yesterday. I was train watching in Lemont, waiting for an Amtrak. They normally blow through there 80 MPH. The gates go down, and some moron drives right around the gates. Lucky for him, the Amtrak was slow. I love it when a train honks. Trains honking is one of the reasons I love trains.
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