Train Horn Stories!

[JDiepstra]

I thought it was only fair that since there is a smoke story thread, there should be a train horn thread! I want to hear stories about the people you freaked out with your horns! I was driving past an ice cream shop a couple days ago and when I hit the horns, I think I saw a lady hit herself in the face with her ice cream cone! A little while later I honked at a young couple walking down the road. My girlfriend told me that the girl freaked out and the guy was with her started laughing at her. I know it may be childish, but it is really hilarious. I don't know about you guys, but I do have a couple rules for myself that I try to follow: no old people, no very young kids, and no dogs. Other than that, fair game!

 

[BigEasy]

picture this, driver #1 is sleeping in his Peterbilt, parked in an area between a street and a set of railroad tracks. along comes driver #2, a 'friend'... driver #2 decides to have some fun and wake up driver #1, so he pulls out his million candlepower deer light, shines it thru the windshield and hits the train horn. driver #1, bolts out thru the sleeper door into the snowy Pittsburgh night wearing nothing but his shorts, with a very noticable brown streak on his backside. driver #1 also has a minor heart attack due to the incident.



driver #1 still does not speak to driver #2, after 7 years

 

[JDiepstra]

Dude, that is a great one!

 

[JApol]

Not a train horn story but goes along with the previous one.

I was on a long cross country trip, I pulled into a truck stop to get some sleep. The only place I could find to park was tucked in behind an 18-wheeler. I laid back the drivers seat and closed my eyes. Imagine my suprise when I opened my eyes, see the back end of a semi inches from my front bumper and my horror when the wheel won't turn because the truck is shut off. I found another place to park and get some shut eye

 

[heavydutyfd]

When I graduated from the fire/rescue academy in 2000, I remember a 1978 100ft. Seagrave tiller truck (the fire truck that bends in the middle) that had 4 after market air horns, 2 mounted on the roof and 2 mounted in the bumper. The first thing they told the drivers when they got promoted was “between 6p and 830a DO NOT use the air horns on XXXX Road”.



Reason……the train horns in unison were so loud, it would trigger the alarm in the safe at the bank, and the police were tired of responding out there 6-7 times a night for alarm bells sounding.