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I have two questions. 1. I live in North Raleigh near the Whole Foods. I often hear trains off in the distance. Where are these coming from? 2. I see tracks that cross over Atlantic Avenue - yet in my 13 years of living here, I've NEVER seen a train come through that area (and I used to work over there). Is that where the train sound is coming from? If so, when do those trains come through?
Where do the tracks cross Atlantic Avenue. I drive that road everyday and don't recall ever driving off railroad tracks. (Of course I could be missing it).
I hear a train at night sometimes but it sounds like it is north of me up in Wake Forest.
Hmmmm...maybe they've been taken up since I stopped working over there. I can SEE them but I don't know how to describe where they are. I'll actually drive over there, see if they're still there and come back and post a specific location.
there's a track that runs north from Capital Boulevard where Wake Forest and Atlantic splits apart - it goes between them all the way up to where Old Wake Forest splits off from FON, and then veers over to Atlantic north of Millbrook.
I do know that any night that cloud cover hangs low, the sound seems to reverberate or bounce/be contained and carry further. I hear the Hillsborough St trains here near Crabtree.
I have two questions. 1. I live in North Raleigh near the Whole Foods. I often hear trains off in the distance. Where are these coming from? 2. I see tracks that cross over Atlantic Avenue - yet in my 13 years of living here, I've NEVER seen a train come through that area (and I used to work over there). Is that where the train sound is coming from? If so, when do those trains come through?
I live in the area and have seen many trains there. The line runs crossing Millbrook between Falls and Atlantic and passes by the American Pride car wash. I've waved to the engineers many times since I'm a train freak. The crew usually waves back. Low volume line but it is active. Small freights that run irregularly. Some are only 3 or 4 cars.
Many flea brains stop on the tracks despite a sign telling them not to do so (LOL). I've called RPD several times requesting traffic officer to ticket some of these fools and save their lives.
I was in Snoopy's (hot dogs) on Spring Forest Rd right by the train track underpass one day when a guy runs in and orders ...... I look over and see a train stopped on the tracks. The guy runs out of Snoopy's and heads to the train. Guess they stopped for lunch .... true story
The track to Wake Forest and points north used to be the mainline of the Seaboard Air Line RR and saw over a train an hour. Traffic has declined to a train or two daily, but this is also the proposed route of Southeast High Speed Rail (SEHSR) that would provide passenger train service between Raleigh and Washington, DC with four-hour running times. It might take 10 or 20 years, but eventually the number of trains using this track will return to levels of the 1950s.
You are hearing the horn for the Durant rd. crossing. The train goes to Henderson and back once a day usually once sometimes twice a day. Like previously posted, it's a short, mixed-freight train sometimes only 5 cars. As the crow flies it's only 4.58 miles from the Whole Foods on Six Forks rd to the RR crossing. Definitely close enough to hear the horn and I would guess the train is traveling south towards Raleigh.
You got anything on Youtube by chance? I'm always interested in checking out he "local scene" when it comes to trains...
Sorry, no equipment to take videos.
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