Trains make noise, especially when they blow their horns while entering stations and at grade crossings. But for folks who live near the railroad branch lines, which have dozens of such crossings, the ...

We’ve all heard it. In many Colorado communities, not a day goes by without hearing a piercingly loud train horn, whether it’s midnight or mid-morning. Though our communities have tolerated this ...

ATHERTON — That lady sitting quietly for hours on the bench at the Atherton Caltrain station earlier this week was Nerissa Dexter, the member of the town’s Rail Committee who had done the initial ...

Ringing a bike bell to warn off a car driver is worse than doing nothing, because at least doing nothing won’t make you feel angry and impotent. Honking a car horn, on the other hand, will make a ...

WILLMAR -- A wayside horn could provide a less noisy method of warning pedestrians and traffic of an approaching train compared with the loud blast of the locomotive's horn. City officials looking for ...

Sound permeates the human experience and gets our attention, sometimes traumatically so. Consider the car horn. It is a widespread practical application of this noise-trauma-alert principle -- and an ...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Riviera Beach is expected to introduce a 'quiet zone' next week to reduce train horn noise. The silencing initiative aims to "enhance the overall quality of life and ...