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Train Horns and Whistles - Too Quiet?
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As a locomotive engineer. It is quite nice to have the loudest most annoying horn as possible on a locomotive. Especially when you are running down a 2% grade at 20mph, and come around a blind 14 or 15 degree curve to see a family of four set up in lawn chairs grilling on the hibachi between the rails of the main line. I'll tell you that there is no worse feeling in the world than throwing the train into emergency and watching helplesly as a three year old girl disapears under the nose of the locomotive. As it was, we missed killing them by about ten feet. All I can remember is the mother of the little girl holding her and crying, knowing how close they came to dying that day. The only thing that saved their lives was the horn on the locomotive. So **** on any government official or activist group that wants to quiet them. Let them sit behind the control stand in the same situation and then see what they have to say.
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