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Well- Believe it or not- I agree, in major part, with one track mind. I think he's a pretty good guy- he summed up both sides of the argument in all of his posts, which really impresses me. Imagine this picture: I have a crossing on my branch line, one located at mile 8.45, and one at 8.25.. They are seperated by .20 of a mile, or one fifth. Now a passenger train station is located in between this station-  platfrom beginning at 8.35 and ending at 8.25- Soasyouguessed, the platform ends where the road begins, and there is a crossing at this road. I'm nottalking exceptionally big roads traffic wise: were looking at two crossings that have such little traffic i'm amazed they are paved. When the train is traveling fromwest to East... hitting crossing at mile 8.45 first, it does the regular whistle pattern.. but for the crossing at 8.25 it does an even better pattern: none.  Now rememebr, this crossing would never meet whistle exemption rules. Ever.  wonder why? The train, depending on length must stop at the station.  Therefore, you could imagine that by the time it's getting ready to cross the crossing, itis most likely going less then 3 MPH, or is just reving up. Why whistle? A tad bit more break could easily stop an already almost stopped train from hitting anyhting at that crossing, PLUS some people wait right where the road ends and platform begins... it might be considered a bit rude to make them bleed from the ears due to a big blast of horn. HOWEVER Who was there first? Like One track mind said.. I wonder... I am a gigantic advocate of making people pay with the whistle... Cross while the gates are down..you should expect to pay, loudly too. A few extra shots forthe railfan, even an odd pattern.. sure thing. But when a train is approaching a crossing at 10MPH..there's no need to use the whistle post as a begiining mark- it'l take the train 5 minutes to get to the crossing; that is indeed stupid.
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