This is news of interest to many… The Duval Rd RR crossing is going to become a train horn quiet zone starting Feb 2. While the train engineers always have the discretion to use the horns if they feel they need to, we should see a substantial dropoff in train horns, and it should only get better over time. This is a major positive.
The note from the city officially said:
“The City of Austin submitted the Notice of Establishment (NOE) to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for the railroad crossing of the Union Pacific Railroad at Duval Road on January 12, 2011. This Quiet Zone will be officially in effect on February 2, 2011”