SMART train horns spur request for ‘quiet zones’ along tracks Some cities, responding to citizen complaints about the horns, are establishing quiet zones to dampen the noise.

People living near the Florida East Coast Railway can tell the type of train passing by their house for one reason: the horns, including ones by Brightline. They are hoping for "quiet zones." ...

The lonely sounds of train whistles have long been fodder for folk songs and poems. But when you live right next to the tracks, there’s nothing romantic about the blast of these modern train horns.

"There's a directional horn instead of all-over sound, so it could just go down the track, and that would help," said Marchetti, "and they could lower the decibles, that would help too." ...

Some people who live near train tracks don’t need an alarm. The loudly elongated wooo that reverberates through their windows every morning gets the job done. Intrigued by the meaning behind the ...

A federal agency found railroad crossings in Waltham are not in compliance with quiet zone requirements, so the warning horn is back and residents are furious.

Roughly 30 residents who live near the BNSF tracks showed up at the council’s study session, sporting pictures of a train with a slash through it pinned to their shirts.

The train horns currently produce a 90-decibel noise that hits a wide swath of homes in the lower Rattlesnake and downtown area in Missoula.

OLMSTED FALLS-- Call it 12 o'clock high. Today will be the final day residents along the Norfolk Southern tracks along Bagley Road should hear train horns blowing at crossings. The city submitted ...

The train horns - sentimental to some, bothersome to others - are back. Rail engineers are now required to blow the locomotive horns, or whistles, when they approach public grade crossings, a ...

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