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 ...

In recent discussions surrounding train crossings, there has been a proposal to create quiet zones, where warning devices such as train horns would be eliminated. While the idea of reducing noise ...

Columbia has gotten another step closer to quieting a handful of the noisy railroad crossings across the city. The city is almost finished designing safety improvements for 14 railroad crossings that ...

When it comes to train horns, it seems the quantity, not the quality, is what annoys residents most. Treasure Coast residents who live next to the railroad tracks from Sebastian to Tequesta say they ...

Reader question: Does Fox Crossing have an ordinance about when trains must blow their horns and how loud it is? I live 2 miles from the railroad crossing on West Prosect Avenue and 2 miles from the ...

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 ...

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 ...