But I’m not here just to talk about train whistle trivia. For nearly 200 years, train whistles have been a tool to warn folks to stay off the tracks. Engineers originally used a mouth-blown ...

Some Durango-area residents say the train whistle is louder this summer compared with previous years, but the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad says the historic sound is unchanged.

“Violent, that’s the only word I can think of to describe it,” said Geoff Young, whose home and graphic-design business ... Florida banned train whistles statewide in 1994 but rescinded ...