Who do you complain to about train noise? They blow their horns at all hours of the night.?

Question

We have no train crossing near us but they lay on their horns continuosly through the night.

Answer 1

Petition your town. The Federal government has created a way towns can apply for a "quiet zone". Otherwise Federal law requires they blow the horn.



Here's the FRA's official page on the rules change.

http://www.fra.dot.gov/us/content/1318





Here's Union Pacific's page on the subject

http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/horn.shtml

Answer 2

You can file a complaint with CSX. I moved into a house near a railroad track but not a crossing. Yes, I moved here knowing that there was a train. I also moved here with the knowledge that they do not need to blow the horn until they are so far in front of a crossing or if animals for pedestrians are on the track. Some train employees just do not have respect for people living near the tracks. They should be grateful to have such an easy job instead of trying to make things unpleasant for others.

Answer 3

You're not near a crossing - but you are near a track, I take it?

Was the track there when you moved in? If so - you chose to live there, and your home would have been priced accordingly (lower than NOT near a track). You surely must have realized there would be noise. Trains don't operate silently.



Caveat Emptor - sorry.



*PS* Honestly, I doubt there's anything you can do - train operators do not "lean on their horns" for no reason, usually. There is no noise ordinance covering trains in most counties.



You can try contacting your county offices and/or the railways - in the first instance, just ask if there is any reason signal activity has increased & give days, dates, times etc so they can identify the engines involved.



IF there is unnecessary activity, they may address the issue.

Answer 4

Noise Train

Answer 5

The FRA requires train to blow there horns 1500', 1000', 500' and at the crossing. It federal law.

Answer 6

Safety reasons.....they still MUST blow the horn before all crossings even though it is in the middle of the night....Trains conduct business 24/7...So the same rules that apply to day time goes the same for night.

Answer 7

No answer to this question or telephone number. This is useless. we are in a quiet zone in El Sereno California 90032 Most at 4P.m and 5 pm. and there is no road crossing... They guy sleeps on the Horn. All day long. This is near the Alhambra area. Our good Council man stated he made El Sereno a Quiet zone. I am a member the Neighborhood Counsel Member for El Sereno. Do I need to start a petition?

Answer 8

Well it ain't the railways fault. They have to blow there horns because they are telling the condutor signals, telling the tower which way they are going and coming from, and warning level crossings that they're coming. Maybe you just need to move to somewhere else.

Answer 9

Those engineers are required by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to blow the whistles for a number of reasons. If he/she fails to do so, both the railroad company as well as the individual engineer is subject to steep fines. Also, I will bet everything I own that those railroad tracks were there way before the houses were, so that was something you needed to take into consideration before you moved there. My advise? Invest in some earplugs.

Answer 10

I have often wondered if someone could come up with directional horns or whatever they call their noise makers. That way they could direct the signal toward the crossing and not 3 or 4 miles surrounding the tracks.

Answer 11

Yes, wakes me up at 1 2 3 4 5 6 all night can't get now sleep please stop the horns, I think it's insaine to abuse the public this way, I guess I will have to get a doc. to give me some drugs to sleep or sue you for disturbing the peace of 1000s of people and me

Answer 12

Even though there are no crossings, there could be a number of reasons they're blowing their horn. And plus the tracks were most likely there before you moved in to your house, so there really isn't anything you can do. Engineers HAVE to comply with the rules or it means their *** and their supervisors ***.

Answer 13

Ok I can understand them blowing the horn.but for 5 mins straight at night every night an every 15/30 mins. when people are sleeping, or blowing their horn like morris code when they pass and thats about every night! There has to be something done!!

Answer 14

Engineers blow the whistle signals as prescribed by rule for a number of reasons, not necessarily when approaching a grade crossing.



There may be another requirement being addressed. Contact a railroad supervisor but be prepared for the contact to produce nothing.

Answer 15

Train conductors are known to purposely blow their horns to signal to prostitutes in the area that they want to pay for sex. Get a camcorder and videotape them women climbing up into the locomotives then post and shame those "HORN-DOGS" via YouTube. Or call the cops on those perverts and put then on the evening news!

Answer 16

it sucks you can t even read a book without getting blasted in your own home. You can t find quiet time anywhere, much less try to make it through an entire night without waking at least once, either in anticipation of the horn, which you will learn to sense before actually hearing it, or from the blasted horn itself.

Answer 17

Bet you don't live near a track but your still playing with your trains, Ours just started again for corn- fuel and theres no reason for the extra noise when big trucks cant gear down going through town. we even have automatic gates ??

Answer 18

I m not complaining about the noise or how often they come through but how often they get stalled blocking off my neighborhood from everything else. Sometimes it takes hours and is a deep inconvince.

Answer 19

Safety regulations require a train to sound it's horn when approaching a crossing or any other time when it needs to warn others of it's approach. I'm afraid there is little you can do about it.

Answer 20

This operator started blowing his horn and didn t stop. The first time I heard it it was way off in the distance and I actually thought it was one of the tornado sirens that they have around here, but I was asleep and the sound woke me as it was just after 7:am on Tuesday Feb. 14th. when it came to my attention. After I was awake I listened for it again and then started timing the durations of the blasts. The shortest blast from this idiots display was 90 seconds of a steady, prolonged and continuous blast. That is one continuous blast of the trains horn.

Answer 21

good luck. they blow the horn to warn that they are on their way through. in case crossing signals are not working, etc

Answer 22

What will complaining do? They won't stop trains just for you. The way I see it, you have two options:



1. Get over it.

2. Move



Complaining won't make it go away.

Answer 23

ummm nothing. trains are required to blow their horns 24/7!!! sorry, you just gotta move!!!

Answer 24

I'll swap with you.

Answer 25

call your realtor...you need to move.

Answer 26

the police...they're disturbing the peace