UP 4946 West - De Kalb, IL Wayside Horns

UP SD70M 4946 leads a westbound manifest through De Kalb as the wayside horns blare loudly throughout town. I think I'll take the real horn over this.

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[airminnesota]

did people think about the railroad crossing before buying a house close to the tracks? if the houses were there before the tracks then i can see why they would complain. if the tracks were there first they should've thought about it before buying the house

[EJE665]

The trains were there waaaaay before the houses.

[rsppap]

they have wayside horns in branson, mo near the landing too. when i first heard them i thought it was a train with a wierd horn. now i know there just speakers

[EJE665]

Yeah, they are tied in with the crossing system and keep doing crossing sequences until the train arrived. They are very pointless and stupid.

[EJE665]

Yep, plus it doesn't take much to know that isn't the train.

[EJE665]

I think the only M-bells in the area are this one, one crossing in Malta, one crossing near Elburn, and one just west of Global Three in Flagg.

[wilek209]

It also sounds more like the horn on an HO-scale model train locomotive with one of those DCC sound chips instead of a real train's horn

[lordbemylight]

0:06: Yes, mix the real horn with the Wayside Horns. That'll make a good concerto in Sydney.

[CSX2665]

@EJE665 no they're not at least it sounds like a real horn & doesn't make it look like a train that doesn't blow the horn @ a normal crossings

[Bus7777]

Wow. They must be trying to empty the town with those horns.

[mt90945557]

That and since they are a part of the signal and have the same volume, people will start ignoring them just as they do with other quiet zones.