The Reason Why Trains Honk So Much

Train horns are one of the most iconic sounds in modern culture, conjuring images of spaghetti westerns, cross-country ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Why is that train sounding its horn? Train language may be able to help you decode it

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 ...
AOL

Horns, bells, whistles: How Delaware welcomed the new year with raucous street parties

“Thousands of horns and bells and whistles, and thousands more of voices burst into great chorus of sound as the clocks of Wilmington chimed at midnight,” the Wilmington Evening Journal reported on ...
The Durango Herald

The train whistle, Durango’s signature sound, is iconic to some, earsplitting to others

Some Durango-area residents say the train whistle is louder this summer compared with previous years, but the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad says the historic sound is unchanged. Durango ...
inforum

Train whistle to become echo of the past

Scott Kujanson likened it to having an air horn blown next to you at a ball game. Kujanson, who manages the Moorhead Country Greenery on Fifth Street South, said if the doors are open when a train ...