Originally Posted by
livedarklions
Mr. Bill has correctly identified this as a diesel line. However, it's a Chicago-style push-pull system with a locomotive at one end only, so half of the time the train is headed by a passenger car with a cab in the front. I can hear these trains coming from pretty far off, but have no idea what the ambient noise is like at that crossing, or if two trains were involved.
So, do the trains have a video system so that the engineers can see what is going on in front of the train no matter which direction it is going?
Obviously they can't stop on a dime, but they can blast a horn that'll wake the dead.