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chrisf@iceonline.com (Canadian) wrote:
>The tracks that the Westcoast Express runs on run RIGHT UNDER my office 
>window (by the big red cranes, 1km west of BC Sugar).  So when the
>train goes zooming by 10 or so times a day, it *BLARES* its horn at a
>huge volume.  Actually, it blares about 4 or 5 times in the 1km around
>my building.  I find this really irritating =) and usually startling.
>
Here in Los Angeles, we had similar loud and dissonant air horns when 
the Metrolink commuter rail service started up in 1992. After some
experimenting, we did find a softer horn (one horn that was used for
a few months sounded more like a boat horn!)