<div dir="ltr">Ann got it right - the pedestrian crossing requires a short toot (maybe two - I don't have my notes in front of me) while the road crossing required a lot more (before the quiet zone was created).<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Sarah Wayland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sarah.wayland@gmail.com" target="_blank">sarah.wayland@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I don't think the pedestrian crosswalk has much to do with it.... </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0104" target="_blank">https://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0104</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"</font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:OpenSansRegular,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:17.85px">In a quiet zone, railroads have been directed to cease the routine sounding their horns when approaching public highway-rail grade crossings. Train horns may still be used in emergency situations or to comply with other Federal regulations or railroad operating rules."</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:OpenSansRegular,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:17.85px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:OpenSansRegular,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:17.85px">I don't know about the "</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:OpenSansRegular,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:17.85px">other Federal regulations or railroad operating rules", but I do know that if I had ever been the engineer on a train that hit someone, I'd probably sound the horn for the rest of my life.... </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:OpenSansRegular,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:17.85px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:OpenSansRegular,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:17.85px">-Sarah</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:OpenSansRegular,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:17.85px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="370" style="font-size:13.6000003814697px;width:369.9pt;border-collapse:collapse;border:none"><tbody><tr style="height:26.5pt"><td width="71" style="width:70.8pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:26.5pt"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B_WsXUJf7Td7cW5GNFR1clgzTGs&revid=0B_WsXUJf7Td7QXhJelRwNUpLSXNLWGlVK3RpRTJZKzd0S28wPQ" width="96" height="41"><br></td><td width="299" style="width:299.1pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:26.5pt"><p style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:blue;font-family:georgia;font-size:10pt">Sarah
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<br></span><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 7:13 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:annbwass@aol.com" target="_blank">annbwass@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="black" size="2" face="arial">Is<font size="2">n't that because the pedestrian crossing requires a short blast?<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">What I have noticed is that they are using short beeps now instead of long horns. </div>
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