Florida East Coast Railway, which has received numerous complaints about the loudness of horns on its new engines, released an update that gives communities little hope the noise will be dampened. In ...

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The intensity of sound (such as a train horn) that you hear will vary at night, sometimes louder and sometimes softer. The explanation is the height of the “inversion” above the ground. On a clear, ...

EDMONDS, Wash — Jerry Hardie loves the sights and sounds from his Edmonds condo — the birds, the ferries, "it's all good sounds," he said. Except for one. Train horns from the Dayton Street crossing ...

San Clemente residents pleading for relief from nearly 2,000 train horns per day can mark their calendar for Thursday, Sept. 3, to see if different kind of horn technology might be a little easier on ...

Thirty times a day, a Brightline train passes Dylan Seman's Wisteria Drive home in Melbourne, which is about 50 feet from the train tracks. And, 30 times a day, the Brightline passenger train's ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - There's been a lot of community discussion about whether Ann Arbor should take steps to establish a "quiet zone" to reduce train horn noise in the city. But what do the horns actually ...

Residents in suburban Franklin Park said train horn blasts throughout the day and night are impacting their quality of life. Federal law requires trains to sound their horns at grade crossings. There ...

Did you know that trains have their own language? I didn’t, either. After trains began sounding their horns in downtown San Diego again recently, I started investigating. Most of downtown lies within ...

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