Around 4 am this morning, Oregon Hill residents were woken up by a train horn. Now, since the neighborhood is very close to CSX train tracks that are along the Kanawha Canal on the old tow path, the neighborhood is very used to trains sounds and hearing a train horn or two. Usually, folks just roll over and go back to sleep. But this horn kept going off pretty much nonstop. Some called 911, fearing another emergency along the tracks.

But the neighborhood was not alone. Evidently the horn kept going for the train’s entire journey, as Fulton neighborhood residents and Williamsburg, VA residents were reporting it this morning also.

Unofficial reports say that an air valve was stuck and that is why the horn kept sounding.

Between this and the early morning trash trucks, expect a lot of bleary eyed neighbors today.