@PRR Man posted:There are two quiet zones near me in Edison NJ. They are about a half mile apart on the ex-LV main line. When these crossings were made into QZ, barriers were installed in the roads center and all four sides. An effective cattle chute for cars. They are complete with lights, bells and gates. One crossing is a busy county road. After about 4 years the feds decided to overturn the quiet requirement and horns sounded again.
Smart move.
Yeah, the Feds did that years ago. I happened to be the engineer on the first train through a town on the night the "FRA horn blowing" took effect. The funny thing was, the unit I was on just happened to have a horn that took its own good time to stop blowing after you eased off of the handle!!! Gee whiz what a cacophony!!! A few days later, someone wrote in to the local newspaper screaming about the horn blowing! So anyway, the townfolk complained about all of the noise and not long after, the crossings (3 within a quarter mile) went back to being a quiet zone. No one has been hit there yet!
