My home is about a mile from a busy railroad track. The engineer on the train, always blasts away, when entering an intersection. I did not realize that I was so accustomed to the sounds of the trains, until the tornado of 1998, that struck Nashville. Sitting on the front porch without electricity, I just then realized that we had absolutely no sounds of any kind. No birds singing, no dogs barking, no clickaty click sounds from the trains and especially no train horn warning blasts, that we were so use to.
Good question. Plus 1. jp
My son moved to Seattle years ago. On one visit home, he heard the train’s horn and said, “what is that?”. I told him it was the trains horn that he grew up with. He was amazed and rightfully so.