{"id":129672,"date":"2026-01-12T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129672\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:46:09","slug":"union-pacific-apologizes-after-train-blares-horn-through-sacramento-area-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129672\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Pacific apologizes after train blares horn through Sacramento area overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Pacific apologizes after train blares horn through Sacramento area overnight<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768178769_690_kcra.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"KCRA logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 4:14 PM PST Jan 11, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNo, you weren\u2019t dreaming. There was the sound of a train\u2019s horn that seemed to go on way too long in the wee hours.Union Pacific confirmed that the horn on one of its trains was stuck overnight as it passed through the Sacramento area.Residents in East Sacramento, Foothill Farms, Citrus Heights and even Roseville reported hearing the sound of an unceasing train horn from around 2 to 3 a.m.\u201cThe issue has since been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience,\u201d a Union Pacific spokesperson said.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>No, you weren\u2019t dreaming. There was the sound of a train\u2019s horn that seemed to go on way too long in the wee hours.<\/p>\n<p>Union Pacific confirmed that the horn on one of its trains was stuck overnight as it passed through the Sacramento area.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in East Sacramento, Foothill Farms, Citrus Heights and even Roseville <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Sacramento\/comments\/1q9wa8i\/strange_noise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported hearing the sound<\/a> of an unceasing train horn from around 2 to 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue has since been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience,\u201d a Union Pacific spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/get-kcra-news-on-the-go-download\/44039145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download our app<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KCRA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Union Pacific apologizes after train blares horn through Sacramento area overnight Updated: 4:14 PM PST Jan 11, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2820,1548,23615,276,66763,66761,671,66762,288,121,873,123,122,24925,669,2734,22238,66764,51540],"class_list":["post-129672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-app","tag-citrus-heights","tag-download","tag-east-sacramento","tag-foothill-farms","tag-horn","tag-more-coverage","tag-railyard","tag-resident","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-area","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sound","tag-subscribe","tag-top-california-story","tag-train","tag-unceasing-train-horn","tag-union-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}