Rhonda asks: I work at Fallingwater. Why does it seem like the only time you can hear the train whistle is when it is going to rain? So, we have a couple of clues: You hear a train and then it rains.

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 ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (KTVU) - In expanding SMART (Sonoma Marin Rapid Transit) Train Service to Larkspur, the line has whistled up some controversy over sleepless nights as it repeatedly tests train ...

Dear Action Line: It’s great to hear the train whistle each evening from where I live on 32nd Street. Lately it hasn’t been the regular warning blast at the 32nd Street crossing, but more of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Placentia officials Wednesday warned that they will seek a court injunction to keep train whistles quiet within their boundaries unless negotiations with a railroad freight line result in a ...

Former MBTA commuter rail engineer Mark Layman struck and killed a teenager who was walking along the railroad tracks in Beverly in 1999, a tragedy that haunts Layman to this day. Twenty years later, ...

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 ...