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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC
The "Engineer" was probably just looking for people to honk at.
Have to admit I have not idea of the proper train horn usage protocol. Maybe they toot every time they approach a RR crossing so any cars on the track will know what they were hit by.
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Yea, they blast away on the horn as they approach any intersection. When the wind is just right we can hear it at outside at out house from that intersection at Memorial road way off in the distance. The RR tracks were there before there was a city. That is why Broadway has the strange angles and curves, it parallels the RR tracks.
That intersection at Memorial where the bank is now was a major loading station for crude oil from the Edmond oil field. That is the primary source for the oil that was made into fuel that powered WW2.
The trains just moved past slowly as the oil was pumped into the tankers. The ground was saturated with crude back then. They did not stop if there was some spillage. The war production was too important.