What is the status of the trains having to follow the way horns are
blown at crossings compared to the FRA rules
http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/horn.shtml
said to start on June 24th 2005? I live Near Hamburg NY
and have been working with local residents and the town of Hamburg
to
try to get the rules enforced by the FRA or CSX/Norfolk Southern
100+
trains that pass threw Hamburg every day since June 24th. We have
been
told by the FRA the June 24th rules do not have to be followed yet
since the Association of American Railroads
http://www.aar.org/
has petitioned the rules and the FRA gave the "AAR" a 120 day
grace period to the AAR follow/learn the rules.
Which brang it to mid October 2005. After that date the FRA then
said
CSX/Norfolk Southern still do not have to follow the rules till the
rules are changed to the AAR asking with no ETA when the rules are
to be changed
and what the rules changes are to be. Yes we have paper work to
prove
this is what we have been told which honestly sounds fishy to us to
say
the least. Yes we would like quite zones
http://www.fra.dot.gov/us/content/1318
some day..only problem is our town does not have the money to pay
for the multiple crossings in our town that would cost over $100,000
to install. We have been trying to find some type of funding with
no luck. FYI asking CSX and Norfolk Southern to follow the rules
only makes issues worse with the trains blowing their horns even
more we have found out when we are able to get some type of reply
from both.., like they are telling us don't try to tell us what we
have to do or how to do it. We can not find any docoments saying
the rules should not be enforced/followed as of June 24th 2005.