THE SIREN’S SONG
FROM RAILWAY ENGINE! Residents in the towns of Tennessee, United States, along the Southern Railway, have long complained bitterly of being awakened at all hours of the night by the shrill whistling of locomotives as they approached stations and crossings. They were awakened on a recent evening at intervals, as usual, but were startled to hear snatches of popular tunes coming from the siren of a very large engine. This is an attempt by obliging railway officials to mitigate the necessary nuisance of the engine’s warning blasts.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 992, 7 June 1930, Page 21
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90THE SIREN’S SONG Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 992, 7 June 1930, Page 21
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