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Oh yes, I live a couple hundred feet from the tracks and I love it! But then our road goes through an underpass so horns aren't required. But every now and then you get a new engineer that lays on the horn. Sometimes I'll hear this late at night and think: good thing I am still awake. But then I thought - I never remember being woken up by a whistle so surprisingly I must be able to sleep through them.
We get about 8-10 trains a day.
The rumble of the trains going by helps put me to sleep.
Yes. My house is 220' from the train tracks. Right now it's only freight trains, but Amtrak used to go through here. I've listened to it all of my life, so I pretty much tune it out.
Occasionally when it is very quiet at night or in the early morning on a weekend and there isn't much traffic, I can hear a commuter train "whistling" as it is passing by which is several blocks from where I live.
I'm about 3/4 of a mile from the main Oakland-Portland rail line, and I hear freight and passenger trains. I don't hear all of them, or at least I don't notice all of them. BART runs underground about a block from my house by I only hear it when I'm within a couple of hundred feet of the station entrance.
I used to live about 200 feet north of where the PATH subway tracks passed by underground. Once in awhile late at night while lying in bed you could feel a soft rumble as the trains passed.
Now I'm too far from the PATH line to feel it, but I am close (4 blocks) to an above-ground freight line. Again, I just hear a soft squeal of iron on iron as trains pass by late at night when the air is still.
Yes. But you know where I heard trains EVERYWHERE? Chicago. No matter where I am in that city I hear a damn train! And it's no wonder, because it's the freight hub of America and probably the world!
I used to live a few blocks from an elevated train (which screeched around a curve), but the windows were facing the opposite direction, so I didn't hear anything from the apartment.
Now, I live a little over a mile from a freight line, and I can occasionally hear the horns in the distance.
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