Trains , Trains and more Trains

I got lucky this afternoon and resting with a cold, I stumbled onto a marathon of 'Extreme Trains' History Channel, (in fact running 2 or 3 more episodes right now). I was enjoying the Union Pacific 844 and they went up to the cab and watching the engineer blow the whistle at an up coming grade crossing. So here is an easy one (except I did not know for sure) What is the long and short pattern for the whistle?

Answer: - Two long, one short, one long: Train is approaching a grade level crossing (i.e. a road crossing). This is a widely used safety signal used to warn motorists and is blown at every grade level crossing, except where local noise ordinances prohibit it. Known in railroad rulebooks as rule '14L'
SCGRR was the first with the right answer! Plus the link he found has been added to the Blog.

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