If everything goes right, Sioux City's landmark steam locomotive's whistle will blow today for the first time in more than 50 years and signal a new direction for the locomotive's future. The ...

OROVILLE — A legend from the past will be rolling into town Thursday when the Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive makes a whistle stop at the old Oroville Depot. The world’s largest ...

Train whistles are legal warning sounds given when they cross streets to alert drivers and pedestrians. When I lived in Durango on Third Avenue, I loved to listen to them coming back in the evening ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The faraway train whistle has inspired longings for adventure and evoked pangs of loneliness in generations of poets and songwriters. But up close, the train's warning blast ...

Q: Why do the trains blow their whistles while traveling slowly along tracks near residential areas in the middle of the night? Are they sadistic or just plain rude? They wake up the whole ...

MANKATO — Residents of a north-side neighborhood had their chance to make some noise Friday morning about loud and frequent train whistles disrupting their lives, even after nearly $600,000 was spent ...

RATHDRUM, Idaho (AP) - When Rathdrum residents hear that whistle blowing, they hang their heads and cry. But members of the city council are working on the noise problem on Mill Street, the city's ...

DEAR ABBY: I love trains. I can imitate a train whistle, and I like doing it. I learned how to do it about 10 years ago by listening to trains whistle for many years. I’m in my 30s now. I know there ...