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Wes Groleau wrote:

On 11-17-2012 10:02, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
the circumstances. I've seen parades that have fire trucks and rescue
equipment blasting horns and sirens. The gate signal would have been
lost, as would flashing lights. Train horn may have just been one of
many horns sounding.

I can hear a train horn with all my windows closed and I live two or
three miles from the tracks. This accident occurred in the center of
twon. In either direction, there are many crossings. So the train's
horns would have been sounding frequently over the three minutes before
impact.

I lived in a town that had some of the busiest crossing in the Norfolk
and Western (at the time) system. Any parade or other similar thing was
well coordinated with N&W;s dispatchers from the get go. Heck, even when
main street was shut down for a street fair or some such, the
dispatchers knew about and slowed the trains down even further so
stragglers were less likely to get run over. Wonder why that did not
happen.
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