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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
Rumblings I might be able to get used to. The horn is a whole 'nother thing. Those suckers are LOUD, and some engineers like to really stretch out the longs on the 14L....
(And god help you if the train has a wheel or two with a bad bearing. Chalk board? Meet my fingernails!)
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Yeah, the horn blasting can be obnoxious. I swear one of the engineers gets off on being extra noisy. Others will do what's needed but no more. We have 2 major street crossings so we get the horn multiple times as the train passes through. They are usually going very slow as the rail yard is only about 5 miles south of the city.
What sucks is when they block both intersections as they wait for train cars to be hooked/unloaded or whatever they do in the yard. There is a bypass road as emergency vehicles would be completely blocked from north and south travel if not for that.