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[quote user="CNW 6000"] Bucyrus, Are you asking to just what extent the 3.75 seconds of "horn time" would have mattered?  IMO the short answer is "It Depends".  If there were enough distractions to keep the driver from reacting correctly to the already present & correctly functioning safety apparati at the crossing, how is anyone to know if any amount of extra horn would've influenced the (correct) desired behavior of stopping/getting in the clear?  No amount of simulation or reenacting will answer that I believe.[/quote] Dan, I agree that it would be impossible to know for sure if it would have mattered.  However, if it would have mattered, it would have saved the day.  I would conclude this: If the driver did not see the flashing red lights for some reason, and did not hear the bells due to the cop sirens, then there is a very high probability that the driver would have heard the train horn had it been sounding in that highly critical time frame when he was passing the white crossing line and approaching the track.  That is exactly where that missing part of the standard horn signal would have occurred.  Furthermore, the locomotive horn would have been louder than the crossing bells, and the extra sound might have been enough to override the cop sirens.  Disclaimer:  This does not exonerate the driver from blame.  It is merely an observation about the effect of the quiet zone.
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