brand new Loves groundbreaking I 10 FL

lmao, I use to spend the night at a customer that was up against the tracks. the train passing by was nothing compared to the engine setting at idle 100 feet away. I can still feel the pounding of the engines pistons in my chest. I thought it was cool.

 

that area does need a truck stop... Very sparse parking on I-10 in that area for a long ways

 

Two long, one short, and a long, lasting until the lead locomotive occupies the crossing. FRA regulation. Depending on speed, they will start blowing the horn about 1/4 mile from the crossing.

 

This is something that Love's needs to talk to the local area and rr about. There is 5 miles of track in here Denver where the trains are prohibited from blowing their horns at all hours because of the residential areas. There are workarounds within the FRA to allow for this with local communities, it requires some specific types crossings, visibility, etc., etc. I know that once this was passed in my area, the UPRR and BNSF spent hundreds of thousands rebuilding 5 crossings to be compliant with this.

Try sleeping next to the mainline outside of a repair facility with 16 to 18 trains per hour passing by, 50 ft from your truck, with them occasionally sitting idle for 5 or 6 minutes at a time while the line clears. Alliance, Ne., we load at a bean plant where the loading area is like this, 16 trains, mostly coal, some inbound some outbound passing by. Oh, and if the engineers know you're asleep in your truck, or they think you are, they are not shy with that horn.

 

[COLOR=#D17B0A !important]General Costs of Safety Measures[/COLOR]
Establishing quiet zones not only creates a public safety risk but also is a potential cost burden to taxpayers. Public authorities are responsible for the cost of preliminary engineering, construction, maintenance and replacement of active warning devices or their components, including wayside horn systems installed at crossings to meet quiet zone standards.
Public authorities are required to execute a preliminary engineering agreement (PDF File) with Union Pacific to reimburse the railroad for all project development and engineering design costs. This agreement requires the following deposits:

• $ 5,000 per wayside horn location
• $10,000 per crossing signal location

Public authorities are required to guarantee reimbursement to the railroad for all actual costs associated with the installation and maintenance of the railroad improvements required for the quiet zone by means of a project agreement executed by the parties. This may include quiet zone warning devices, wayside horns or both.
Examples of costs as estimated by Union Pacific:

• Four-Quadrant Gate Systems - $300,000 to $500,000
• Basic Active Warning System* - $185,000 to $400,000
  (*Includes Flashing Lights and Gates, Constant Warning Time, Power Out Indicator and Cabin.)
• Basic Inter-Connect - $5,000 to $15,000
• Annual Maintenance - $4,000 to $10,000
• Think Loves would front the costs to the railroad, just so you would not be awakened. I don't think so