From: Mark 
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian misc.consumers misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Do you live near a train track?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:18:41 -0400

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:14:30 -0400, Robert Payne 
wrote:

>I recently moved into a town that has two train tracks that run
>through it. At various times in the day and night you can hear
>commuter and freight trains come by (I live about 1,500 feet from
>the tracks.) and the engineers always blows the horn!

I live almost 3 miles from the closest train crossing.  Dead quiet
neighborhood all the time.  At the crossing (3 miles away), I can hear the
train blow it's whistles on the MIDNIGHT run!

I feel sorry for people who live near that.  How the hell can you NOT get
woken up every single time?  That has to be brutally loud.

I still don't understand the stupidity of blowing a train horn at that time
of night.  There is a full RR crossing and gates with flashing red lights.
Anyone who crosses that deserves to get whacked.  A train whistle certainly
isn't going to stop them at that point.