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As a retired railroad engineman, I can only give you how I feel about this whistle blowing controversy. I say, blow regularly and certainly blow like crazy if you suspect that an incident is imminent. In my career, I have been involved in 4 incidents that claimed a total of 7 lives and I can tell you that this is NOT a pleasant experience to go through. Yes, I had the locomotive bell going, the steam whistle or diesel horn going (as the case might be) and I was even shouting at the top of my lungs, and even the crossing gates and bells were active, but to no avail, we still hit the car(s). I say, give the people all the <br />warning you can. <br />Sometimes the horn does make a difference and does save someone's life. I can remember one fellow that cut his dump trucks wheels sharply to the right and went into the ditch when I was blowing for a crossing. Needless to say I dumped the air when I thought we were going to hiy, but all was well and the fellow told me - "Thank God you were on your horn - it saved my life"!!! <br />Norman
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