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David G

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The union pacific tracks washed out south of my place Sunday night. There are usually trains by there every 15-20 minutes.

I heard the first one tonight, they must be getting them repaired.
 
David,

I hear the train a rolling,
It's coming round the bend.

I ain't seen the sunshine,
Since I don't know when.

I'm stuck in ... Well, you get the idea.



Ain't no trains nowhere near hearing distance from me, but I do like them.

Tom in TN
 
We have a KCS line on the front of our place. We hear the trains most days and nights. You get used to it and most of the time it's just a good time to take a minute break and listen to the engineer work the air horn.
Every one is different, would swear some of these guys love to hear that horn, as they just lay on it. Others come through with just a short blip on the horn, if I didn't hear the diesel working you would not know they were there.
Andrew
 
I'd love to hear a train go rolling through town, but the nearest tracks are 70 miles away. Closest I can come to it is when my neighbor drives past in his Union Pacific truck with the rail-rider wheels on it. LOL


:>)
 
If he laying on the whistle he seen a auto or truck approaching the crossing and wants to give a little extra warning, you never know if they will stop or not.
 
when i lived in kc,k their was a switch yard over the hill, at night, when all was quiet you could here them making up trains. when i lived in sf,ca at night, when all was quiet you could hear fog horns in the distance. now i live in the country and there is only complete silence, and im good with that.
my mom has a train track right in her front yard, really, you could easily toss a rock and hit one. when im talking to her on the phone it sounds like the train is running thru her house, i tell her, mom, hurry and step aside so the train don't hit ya. :)
 
Isn"t it neat to hear complete silence. I spend about half my time in our Vac home in remote Yukon Canada. You hear nothing. A lot different than my other home in Iowa.
 
I live a mile from a railroad crossing, and Burlington Northern coal trains run at all hours of the day and night.

I understand there are regulations that cover the horn. When approaching a crossing, the engineer must blow two long blasts, one short, and a third long. And the third long blast must last until the engine is past the crossing.

I heard it was a federal law, but that may or may not be true.
 
That's the signal we were taught when I was training to be a brakeman on the Whitewater Valley Railroad. WVRR is a volunteer operated tourist line in Indiana, an old NYC line. We ran some live steam back then, I believe they are currently all diesel.
 
One of the posters on here works for UP, he would know the crossing I am talking about.
 
(quoted from post at 10:55:52 07/02/14)......I understand there are regulations that cover the horn........
Yes there are, but over the past 8 years we have lived by the rail line we have heard many variations on the "regulation" horn usage.
We always joke that some of the engineers had grown up as little boys always wanting to drive a real train, so those guys you can hear for many miles away,,,,,, They really lay on the horn at every crossing. ( we have 4 crossings within a mile of the house one with gates and 3 private crossings) Sometimes a train passes through with just one short blip on the horn at each crossing, it really depends on the engineer.

Last month we even had one play " shave & haircut ,two bits" as he went past. ( probably a cute girl up on the road!) i was raking on a tractor when I heard it, dam near lost the line I was raking laughing about it.

Andrew
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The difference between the short horn blasts and the long ones:

The short horn blasts are the engineers that have not had a wreck yet........
 

Two longs, one short, and a long is Federal law. Also the distance from the crossing is Federal law. Some engineers comply and some don't. They pull the tapes and discipline some but it doesn't seem to make them comply with the law. Some are so scared of the discipline that they just blow from the marker to the other side of the crossing. I am a conductor and run from North Platte, to Fremont, NE.
 
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