Demonstration of wayside horns installed at McCarver and Ruston Way in Tacoma, WA

This video is a demonstration of wayside horns installed at rail crossing at McCarver and Ruston Way in Tacoma, WA. Wayside horns sound via speakers mounted at the road/rail crossing eliminating the need for the train to blow its horn.

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• Amtrak Cascades
• train
• rail

[pengapop12]

@mrksvideos i say the damn horns were put on the engines for a reason so fuck quiet zones all together get earplugs if people dont like it

[strench707]

Wow this really isn't the greatest idea. It is exspensive and ruins the whole railroad feel. Hopefully this disease wont spread to the east coast.

[IsaiahWEJackson]

....or maybe just get some better sounds. I'm not a big Leslie horn fan. The new GEVO horns, the K5LA, or one of the horns the old BN SD60M had would at least smooth out such a transition in railfanning.

[HeavySig]

@strench707 All you railfans complaining about the "feel" and "experience" being ruined by wayside horns have no clue about why they exist or were developed. They are simply a compromise solution to complaints of noise.

[SantaFebuff]

BETTER IDEA: Just put skirts to direct the horn sound. Obviously this system is costing taxpayer money that doesn't need to be spent! Why pay for something already available? DOTs need to get a clue mate, they need to stop looking at what to REPLACE and at what to MODIFY! Saves money, saves time, and you don't have to listen to electronic horns.

[FK347]

As a train lover, i want the real thing :)

[BBT609]

Lemme be honest. This destroys railfanning. Fuck the people who bitch about shit, and fuck quiet zones. FUCK THE INVENTOR OF WAYSIDE HORNS!!

[trainandhawksfan17]

I thinks that's an RS3L, but it's sounds HORRIBLE and I can't tell!

[BBT609]

In Florida, on the Florida East Coast Railway, they hate Wayside Horns. They dont care if people or sleeping, they blow the horn to every crossing there is. Most towns got noise limits , but trains are exempt fro those limitations. No such things as quiet zones.

[BBT609]

@pengapop12 Dude. I totally a agree. Listen up. Wayside horns can fuckin go to hell, wait, the inventor can go to hell. They did put on horns on trains to blast bc they wanna let people know they coming. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN A CAR IS ON THE TRACKS!! BLAST THE HORN NO MATTER WHAT!!! I agree. MOVE AWAY FROM THE TRACKS IF YOU'RE TOO MUCH OF A PUSSY TO HERE A TRAIN HORN!! lol