During the interim, Montclair residents will notice the use of locomotive horns between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. beginning next Thursday, the office of township manager Marc D. Dashield wrote in a notice ...

Long blast, long blast, short blast, long blast — that’s the pattern the federal government says trains must use when sounding their horns when reaching a road crossing. Put those blasts at a ...

Florida East Coast Railway’s new locomotive horns are described as “psychological torture” by one Palm Beach County resident and are the subject of lengthy profanity-riddled rants in ...

Mundelein officials were optimistic Tuesday that residents could rest easy after a railroad company dropped its threat to blare locomotive horns as trains rumble through town.The Canadian National ...

The piercing blasts from Florida East Coast Railway’s new locomotive horns aren’t likely to be quieted anytime soon as the noise is expensive to mitigate and remains within federal guidelines ...

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration, “Under the Train Horn Rule (49 CFR Part 222, issued on August 17, 2006), locomotive engineers must begin to ...

According to a 1991 study called "Noise and Its Effects," by Dr. Alice H. Suter, a locomotive horn can reach 120 decibels 100 feet from the train. Sugar Land's quiet zone.

Under non-quiet zone circumstances, locomotive engineers must start blowing their horn at least 15 seconds and up to 20 seconds in advance of all public grade crossings, according to the ...

THEFT, CARTER STREET: Officials with Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway, based in Brewster, reported Feb. 18 that sometime since the previous afternoon, someone removed a train horn from one of three ...

UPPER MERION, Pa. (WPVI) -- It was a relatively sleepless night for some residents in Upper Merion, Montgomery County after a train horn sounded for three hours straight. Residents started ...

Relief is on the way for residents along Utah's Wasatch Front who have endured months of blaring train horns, both day and night, after federal regulators granted a waiver allowing quiet zone ...