CSX Transportation
Reviews and Complaints

I live in downtown Nashville, TN in East Nashville to be exact. This morning at 6am, I was woken up by no less than a dozen horn blasts. Was the train running at such a high rate of speed that they needed to warn people withs many blasts of the horn?

Sounding the horn is fine. I live in Natural Bridge station and it goes beyond that. The horn is repetively tooted in 1 second intervals the whole way through as far as you can hear it. This just started several weeks ago and you can tell it is being done out of spite. One or two horn blasts is more than enough to hear a mile away. I've recorded it and am ready to go to the town council and the news because it's only done late at night when everything is quiet and you can hear the train coming and don't need a horn to tell you that. I want a solids night sleep please. This is our homes you are blasting with this noise.

you are more likely to give old folks a heart attack from sleep deprivation than you are to run someone over who didn't see both the lights and the sound that occurs at the tracks

Hi Deanna,
I understand your frustration, but the engineer is required to blow the horn at all public road crossings, by federal law, and would be civilly and CRIMINALLY liable if the train struck a person or vehicle and he/she didn't blow for the crossing. The location, number of horn blasts, and the length of the horn blasts are mandatory. The engineer doesn't have a choice.
There is an exception, and, this is something you may want to pursue with your town- Local/town ordinances can exempt a particular public crossing from having the train horn blown when the train crosses them. This does not apply to emergency situations, like if a person or vehicle was on/near the tracks, but would apply at all other times.
If enough of your neighbors/townfolk are bothered by it, you may be able to have your town pass an ordinance that exempts the crossing(s).
Understand that no-horn crossings are significantly more dangerous, but that is something you and you neighbors would have to weigh against quality of life and your peace and quiet.

Seriously, blow it 3-4 times, not for 4 minutes straight. Wakes us up every night. I kno the conductors are doing it obnoxiously on purpose bc some other ones during the day only do it a couple times and not as long/loud.

Never stop the horn blowing. However, install directional horns via a grant from the city. Also install 4way unpassable gate systems.nThere is a solution. They should seek one. Not seeking one is vicious because Orlando needs to grow up and not outwards. This will need for upward growth bo doubt places people near the rails.

Federal law states they must blow the horn at each and every crossing. If you live by the tracks, have you considered moving? They will NEVER stop blowing the horns.

^ actually change that to 160 times per train (4x per block *10 blocks/mile * 4 miles) - but the time difference stays the same - about 15 minutes of noise every time a train passes by. My house is 90 years old and doesn't have great insulation... telling people to just "live with it" is not an answer.

How many lives have been SAVED by honking horns? How many ACTUAL train accidents have their been? The problem isn't just the horns blowing at the crossing - they emanate at 50-100dB in a 3 mile radius around the track. 1/10 mile blocks, required honking 4x per mile, 4 miles through downtown Orlando = 40 times per train; lasts about 15 minutes of blaring (read: unhealthy) noise for each train. Trains pass through Orlando at about 90 minute intervals - so 15 minutes of every 90 are horns, equalling about FOUR HOURS EVERY DAY, relentlessly.

This is completely egregious and unhealthy - noise pollution can cause high stress, lowering immune systems, etc. and can actually be physically harmful. MAKE IT STOP!

they are required to blow the horn at designated points such as crossings, regardless of the traffic. Did you not know you were moving near a train track?

I was woken this morning at 6am by no less than a dozen blasts of a train horn. I live in East Nashville, a residential part of downtown Nashville. Was your train traveling so fast that they needed to warn everyone? I live a mile from a Fire Station and even they use better judgement when called out on a run so early in the morning.

Hogansville Ga has a train idling for days and won’t go away. It is very loud and it stinks up the whole downtown area with diesel smell. Please go the freak away! I can hear you in my bedroom and it is so disruptive! It is rude and uncalled for when the train can go to an area without homes especially downtown!

09/10/2020 at 10pm, I witnessed a 12+ inch/ 20bl peice of the concrete support beam detached and fall onto my car causing significant damage ($7,000+). As a result, I swerved to miss it, clipping another vehicle. As a 9/11 Vet, the timing triggered my PTSD and I avoid that overpass at all costs. Evidence currently in storage. Video won't upload.

The RR Crossing in Linden, Indiana on County Road 1100 north is very close to causing vehicular damage. You cannot cross it without potential wheel or alignment damage happening.

Train idling for hours in front of 1475 palisade Ave Teaneck nj 07666
This has 120 residential units.

Can it it idle elsewhere if it needs to idle at all.

Thanks.

The railroad tracks along the canal are EXTREMELY squeeky. They can be heard all day and all night everytime s train travels by. They are in need of some repair ASAP.

We live along the canal near baseball fields in perrinton/ Fairport area.

I am a City Of Buffalo building inspector an I am receiving complaints about vehicles being parked on the unpaved surface at the corner of Louisiana and republic st in Buffalo ny making it look like a "junk yard/dumping ground". Can we have these vehicles removed.

We have crossing across street from our hotel, and some of engineers are blowing more than they should at middle of night. needs them to limit their blowing when they get to our crossing near hotel, please update me on this situation at email address "junior@tristatehotels.com"

6:45am cridersville Ohio csx driver blew their horn with no break all the way through town they do this almost every single night it's getting annoying as [censored] I know people who work for csx and have asked them and they said that they are blowing the horn to long also tell them to get their [censored]ing [censored] together

I live in lester rd Lawrenceville ga many occasions railroad crossing just closed with no train approach what cause real bad delay and traffic also train just passing and making the big noise that wakes everybody up at late nights and early morning why do we have to suffer