The intensity of sound will vary at night, sometimes louder and sometimes softer. It has to do with the height and strength of a temperature inversion just above the ground. On clear, calm nights, 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 ...

Would you want to hear that sound in your home a dozen or more times a day from early in the morning to late at night? That's what it's like for thousands of people who live in downtown Raleigh. The ...

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 ...

City and federal officials met Friday to detail what San Diego must do to fix safety problems at railroad crossings, two days after the issues prompted the temporary suspension of a designated train ...

A new change in LaPorte officially makes the city a quiet zone. Trains are prohibited from sounding their horns, except in emergency situations. City leaders say that this has been a long-awaited ...

WALTHAM (CBS) - The Federal Railroad Administration is inspecting more than 900 "quiet zones" around the country. The zones are sections of tracks where trains do not have to sound their horns at ...

Union Pacific confirmed that the horn on one of its trains was stuck overnight as it passed through the Sacramento area.

Rick Peroni tried earplugs and earmuffs, but he couldn’t drown out the sound of horns on Friday night as the SMART train repeatedly chugged by his San Rafael neighborhood during a test of the planned ...

While attending truck shows across the United States, we have noticed an increase in train horns and the unmistakable sound of their ear-blasting decibels. This breathtaking trend of horn blasting has ...