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Was just reading through this July Trains (Great Issue - BTW) and came across the article "My Locomotive" by Dennis S. Wilson starting on page 66 in the Railroad Reading section. Great story, I enjoyed every aspect of it very much, but something caught my attention as I was reading, on the top of page 68 Dennis says that his instructions for blowing the whistle were a short short long short, and I have always been familiar with the long long short long and have never heard of a short short long short being used at grade crossings before. The railroad Dennis was working for at the time was the now defunct IM&D, did this railroad have its own operating rules, or were thesethe universal rules at that time? Do any railways out there currently use a different pattern for grade crossings? Was it common for railways to have their own horn patterns? Was this just an error in memory? This article really has me curious, 'cuz I never knew anything other than a long long short long was used? Thanks! Macguy
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