Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

A news story from my hometown: http://www.wics.com/news/top-stories/st ... 0254.shtml.

Can't believe the old lady is blaming train horns for the fact that she could be burned to death because she can now sleep through a fire alarm. What?

Here is the crossing where most of the story was shot at: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7972342 ... FJxe5w!2e0

missing a fire alarm while asleep should definitely not be a reason to instate a quite zone

Exactly, train horns there for a reason, I'm glad UP doesn't want to install one!

$5 says that these same people would complain about the fire alarms "being too loud" if they were to malfunction and go off in the middle of the night.
I can sometimes understand quiet zones such as Vine Street over in Decatur, AL where the crossing gets 50 trains a day and it's right next to a neighborhood, but if I ran a city with a busy main line going through it, I'd put a buffer of commercial and industrial buildings along it so people wouldn't complain about the train horns as much.
I don't understand the quiet zones that are in the middle of nowhere though.

They're attempting to put quiet zones in where I live. Fire Alarms should be a LOT louder than train horns if the f*cking window is closed.