Dirk Ramsey Wrote:
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> When did that law come into effect? All the years
> that I worked in North Yard in Denver, I never
> heard our switch engines use bells and horns like
> that. With 3 or 4 switch jobs the racket would not
> only be deafening, but a safety problem trying to
> figure out which engine was squacking. Yours or
> another crew.
There is no such law requiring the horn/whistle to be blown before moving. Crossings must have the whistle/horn sounded by law. I think I remember a rule in GCOR saying if using hand signals, and the ground man gives a "going in between" signal (today called "red zone") the engineer is to acknowledge the signal with a blast of the whistle/horn. the tradition of blowing the whistle during switching started before I went to work there in 1981.