Train Horns Return in Downtown San Diego! Jan 2024
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Published 2024-01-23
The Quiet Zone in downtown San Diego has been temporarily lifted by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). This temporary suspension will remain in effect until all non-compliant items have been fixed by the city of San Diego. So for the time being... train horns return to the famed downtown "horn alley" in 2024!
While the caliber of K5LA isn't what it used to be back in 2012 (mainly noting the obnoxious Raised Letter K5LA!)... it's still nice to hear the horns sounding off again in San Diego... even to the dismay of the local residents! HAHA!
I spent half of a RAINY WET Monday afternoon filming some of the action... even got lucky with a daytime Daygo passing by! Ash St had a 6.32.2 procedure 2 caused by the rain slowing trains down even further.
0:00 Train Horns in San Diego
0:13 Amtrak 777 with AMTK 6900 at Beech St
2:13 Amtrak 770 with CDTX 2115 at Beech St
3:25 Amtrak 581 with CDTX 6951 at Grape St
4:50 Amtrak 572 with CDTX 2110 at Grape St
6:29 Coaster 634 arriving into Santa Fe Depot
8:24 Amtrak 774 crossing Ash St
10:15 Coaster 635 crosses Cedar St
11:48 Coaster 636 lead by NCTC 2306
13:27 Amtrak 785 at Beech St with AMTK 6905 on point
15:28 BNSF 8225 heads into San Diego from Barstow.
18:25 NCTC 5003 leads Coaster 637 at Ash St
19:20 Coaster 2303 at Grape St
20:18 AMTK 6908 with Great K5LA!
22:05 NCTC 2309 leads Coaster 640
23:40 NCTC 5007 takes Coaster 639 to Oceanside
Thanks for Watching!
Hopefully more to come from this rejuvenated "horn alley"
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All Comments (21)
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Great to hear horns have made a return to downtown SDG for a bit. Those older K5LAs on the Surfliner cabbies sound the best! Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you Mayor Todd Gloria for allowing a one week stay of execution for train horns in San Diego to return. This video took me back to the days of 2009-2012 YouTube when San Diego Depot was a popular railfan spot.
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They shouldn't have stopped train horns in the first place
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Love seeing these kinds of requirements take place, especially in SoCal where most major areas are no-horn zones, man I wish I would have been able to see something like this during my time in San Diego! Let those Nathan K5s sing!
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Yes!I love the horn zone.Lets hope it remains a horn zone permanantly.
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Great collection, nice to see San Diego as a proper whistle zone like it used to be even if its for a brief period.
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Nice hearing horns in SD after a long time of being a quiet zone.
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Awesomeness man! Another blast from the past yet again, F59’s returned temporarily, a P42 on the surf, and now this! And those K5LA’s on 6908 and 6905 are the truth! Bummer the Coaster Cab cars aren’t the same anymore.
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Finally no more quiet zones!
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Awesome video! Great horn action!
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This is amazing!
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Going Back to 1999-2015!!!
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Must have been a fever dream for railfanners, can only imagine the panic and utter nightmare this was for the residents lol
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lol the real horn alley would be in the CFRC sub in Orlando, Church Street to Lynx Central, a bunch of crossings, all though there is a huge quiet zone there for obvious reasons. I love the video! Amazing job!
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Great video
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6900 has a good Horn ngl but 6951s has a Coaster k5la
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Looove 6908s K5LA, doesn’t even sound like a 3rd gen, sounds like something put on P42s in the 90s, and it’s perfectly in tune, with it harmonizing with itself. it’s just so perfect, Amtrak’s best K5LA system wide imo, sounds like a freaking choir
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Ok but why does the RL K5LA at 13:32 actually sound really good. Nice shots!
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The so called great K5LA you mention with the Amtrak cab cars are the original 1st gen ones playing a root position B major 6 chord. The “horrible” raised letter K5LA you also mention are the 3rd gen ones, playing a 1st inversion B major 6 chord. They are all based on the same chord just different positions.
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I'm sure the people living over there are not happy.
