Dunno if this is actually radio related, but thought this community might know something about it.
I was walking down a stretch of railroad that I haven’t explored before when I happened across this metal sign nailed down to the tracks.
It’s pointing toward the nearest railroad crossing and says “790Hz”. Is this a radio frequency one could listen on and hear when the train is passing by? Or something else? I don’t know anything about trains


Definitely not an RF frequency, much, much too low.
Might be some wire based signalling for a railway switch or semaphore or so.
Perhaps ask in a train community?
RF happens at plenty of lower frequencies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency