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 ...

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

The city of Wauwatosa website is asking for residents' help in enforcing the area's quiet zone for trains.According to the city website, local officials have filed a notice with Canadian Pacific ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Due to signal testing along a railroad corridor that spans from Miami to West Palm Beach, Brightline train horns will sound overnight and in quiet zones through 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16. On Sunday the ...

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, ...