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Regarding a segment or section of rail leading into a rail yard (I'm thinking specifically of a place like Vernon, CA in the LA area for UP or the BNSF equivalent), aren't any potential "whistle-free" designations null and void?  I read an LA Times story once where Vernon was just about the only place in the Southland not enjoying the real-estate boom the other localities did, primarily (the writer suggested) b/c the residents were subjected to multiple horn-blowings, with large instances of "shave and a haircut, two bits" (don't ask me how this is possible on a modern horn!)  Do localities always have the final word on whether the horns get blown or not, or does RR yard safety trump local homeowners' wishes?  Also, even where there are whistle-free zones, isn't the standard rule there that the engineer can blow the horn, say, after the first in a successive line of crossings w/in the zone, and then not again?<br><br>Riprap<br>
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