I don't understand the point of silencing the actual train horn and then installing these.
Just make it a quiet zone. You don't even need quad gates. We have quiet zones here in Canada where the protection does not have a gate. The track speed is 25 mph, but it's still a quiet zone.
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I didn't see the horns until about 4:17 of the 5:19 video - on a mast above the signal bungalow to the right of the photo, with pretty small 'bells'.
RDC horn sounds better anyway.
- PDN.
zugmannDisclaimer: Follow all rules and regulations pertaining to proper horn blowing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower
tree68A friend says the first thing that should move is the bell.
If my E-bell moves, something is wrong. But yeah, unless doing switching with momentary starts and stops, you ring the bell. Also a bone of contention with me and newer EMDs* that have the bell switch up high. The nice thing with it being down low (where it should be!) is that it's next to the indep. handle. Easy to ring it as your hand moves to release that handle.
*-headlight swithces, too. I swear whomever at EMD/Progress/Cat/whoever this week designed their latest control stand never ran an engine, and never asked anyone that did/does.
mudchickenI really have little sympathy regarding the noise complaints. The people whining ought to pay for the QZ, especially the inevitable accident costs in the stupid zone.
In all seriousness, if a crossing has quad gates or the median barriers, do train horns really matter? If someone is wanting to run a crossing with all that stuff in place, I doubt a few honks will do crap. I sometimes wonder if all the blowing we do causes the horns to become simple background noise anymore.
Disclaimer: Follow all rules and regulations pertaining to proper horn blowing.
DeggestyI do take issue with the "two shorts" when the train leaves the station. In my experience (onother roads), they have been shorts, blown before any movement.
A friend says the first thing that should move is the bell. In my experience, the two shorts usually do come just before the train moves (as called for in the rules), but I've got no real quibble with them occuring just as the train starts to move.
If that horn is timed to the crossings, than that's how it is. However, it appears that it is located at the crossing by the station, not by the other crossings.
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More common than you would think and Zugster is correct on the directed noise issue. Regardless, the morons still ignore the warnings.
I really have little sympathy regarding the noise complaints. The people whining ought to pay for the QZ, especially the inevitable accident costs in the stupid zone.
BaltACD Video is from 2011 - I presume no changes have been made in the ensuing 7 years?
Video is from 2011 - I presume no changes have been made in the ensuing 7 years?
I do take issue with the "two shorts" when the train leaves the station. In my experience (onother roads), they have been shorts, blown before any movement.
Johnny
CMStPnPNot sure if I like this new warning system with the train horn perm at the RR crossing, it makes a lot more noise than if the engineer just blew the horn on approach.
More directed noise, I guess.
If you're going to go through all the trouble to install those, just do what it takes to make it a quiet zone, IMO.
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I agree Chuck, way too funny. Welcome to La-La Land.
Bob
What the heck? Whaaattt? As Gump says " stupid is as stupid does"
Not sure if I like this new warning system with the train horn perm at the RR crossing, it makes a lot more noise than if the engineer just blew the horn on approach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg0LprKh_ic
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