Lemme just ask this - when the train is barreling into Maplewood station, well, THRU the station because it ain't stopping, does blowing the whistle really help?
If you are on the tracks and the train is coming at you at say, 80 MPH, WTF does blowing the whistle do?
If you can't see it, feel it or hear it coming at you already, is the whistle really gonna help? Or is it to make sure, at the last possible second, that you will know what hit you?
I don't think the whistle is meant to help those scampering on the tracks since, if you're on the tracks in the station, even a train that's stopping will run you over (and trains that stop don't whistle). I think it's meant as a psychological courtesy, so you don't get your hopes up that you're getting on a train any time soon. More cynically, it could be meant as a "Nyah nyah!" whistle. Like, "In your face, commuters! I could have stopped, but I'm not going to! Mwahahahahaha!"
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