I've noticed lately that one engineer on the line I take is blowing his horn so loud and so long that I can hear him coming from 4 stops away. When he gets closer and is crossing streets before getting to the station the long blasts sound so loud and so often like it is for an emergency warning. However there are no emergencies, this is just how this engineer blows his horn. All the other engineers that come by just give it a normal blow. Someone please ask this engineer if they have ever heard of crying wolf ..... some day there will be a real emergency where their loud horn blast will actually warn someone. People in the area are getting so use to the emergency type loud blasts that it just starts seeming like a normal horn blast.... which was proven today when 2 people raced their cars past the gates as the horns were loudly blowing and the gates were going down.
Maybe trains should only blow their horns when they need to warn someone in an emergency. Many crossings there isn't even a horn blast at all... what is that all about. Some crossings you blow the horn and some you don't...... whatever!
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