How close are you to the RR track?

[spankybird]

So just how close do you live to the tracks.

I am about ½ mile from the CSX and NS main lines going thru Cleveland. I can hear the whistle blow without any problems. This also means I can go watch them at any time.


How close do you live [?]


Gee, I guess the map doesn't want to stay there.

[FJ and G]

Spankybird,

The name of my street is Wyecrosse Court. I'm in the middle of the famous Manassas Junction about 2 miles from the tracks north and 2 miles south; where I can hear trains coming and going from the north, south and east.

I love the sounds; the only thing better would be a trackside house

[willpick]

[:D] I live 2 blocks(about 3/10 mile) from the Florida East Coast Railway track. Due to the fact that there are 6 grade crossings within a 1 mile radius, I get to hear the trains a LOT[:D]

[Big_Boy_4005]

I live about 3 miles from the old C&NW Chicago to Twin Cities main, the Route of the 400's. 400 miles in 400 minutes passenger service in it's day. The UP has been working to restore this line for real revenue service. They will be working with NS to bring Triple Crown roadrailers here starting in July. It has been way too quiet way too long.[swg]

[Anonymous]

The CP line that goes through the middle of Langenburg is about 3-4 blocks from where I live, which may sound close to some of you, but considering the size of my town, I'm as far away as you can get from it, being at the very outer edge of town. I can hear the trains from my house and don't have to go far to be able to see the trains down the street. Because of the condition of the track, CP has a 10mph speed limit for this section of the line (although the crews do seem to often go a bit faster). When I first hear a train from my house, I could leasurely drive to the tracks and still have to wait a while for for the train to get there.

[ben10ben]

I'm about a mile from a spur that connects to a former L&N mainline currently owned by CSX and leased by local road R.J. Corman. This spur serves an industrial park located right across and down the road(U.S. 421, which many of you who live in the southeastern U.S.A have probably traveled on at one point or another) from my subdivision. This track may see 3-4 trains a day, or 2-3 a week, depending on the business back in there. I can usually faintly hear the horn at night or when outside.

[spankybird]

Our tracks have heavy trafic, between the two of them, I can see and hear a trian about every 10 to 15 minutes. Sometimes I can here 3 at one time, one on the NS and 2 on the CSX.

[Anonymous]

I currently live two blocks from the pota***erminal where the potash loaded
hoppers are brought by NBSR/CN Rail from Sussex.I hear both road units as trains
are brought in and the courtney bay terminal GP-18 as shunts cars.as a boy I
lived on a spur leeding to the Brookville lime where dad worked.the main line
was 100 + or - feet from the house.I recall watching cars rolling by as sat in my
dining room.

American lost a greater son whom led her through
the storms as faced a storm in life but now walks streets of Gold.

David Brown

[Anonymous]

I can't hear the train near me, but I can sure feel it and Its always under our feet!!! [:D]

The subway is about 20 or 30 feet below our house.

It is the L train, AKA the Canarsie line, Back in the 70's they used to call it the LL.
[:D][:D] Grandma calls it a pain in the neck. [:D][:D]

[garyseven]

1/4 mile from Willamette and Pacific. The 4449 has gone by on several occasions.[:D]

[guilfordrr]

Well, when I lived in Michigan, we lived right next to the tracks! Now I'm a few miles from a short coal-hauling railroad which I think is owned by Norfolk Southern.

[cbojanower]

used to be about 500 feet above the main UP tracks through UT. It was great. Sadly we moved and no more watching the trains go by, when the wind is right I can hear them still

[DSchmitt]

My office is less than 300' from the UP (former SP) mainline in Marysville CA and about 3/4 mile from the former WP main line

[Dr. John]

We are several miles away from any railroad tracks. I do cross the CN / IC mainline each day going back and forth to the church office (about ten miles from our house.)
When the winds are right, I can hear the trains on the CSX (former L&N) mainline several miles south of us.

[daan]

I live 500m. away from the mainline to Vlissingen, but Dutch railways are mostly passengertrains. Though the harbour in Vlissingen east gets cartrains twice a day, hauled by double headed 6400's most of the time.
Also within that reach there is a museumline with steamloco's and small b switchers operating every weekend and every holiday.(We hear the wistles,smell the antracite en hear the steamengines leaving the station).

[Anonymous]

When I was a child in the Bronx, I lived about 6 short city blocks (maybe 3 long city blocks) from the 3rd Avenue El. After I turned 13 we moved to the suburbs, a town called Mamaroneck in Westchester. Mamaroneck has a station on what is now Metro North's New Haven line, a 4 track main line that runs from New Haven, Ct to Grand Central Terminal in NYC.

The street we lived on, Halstead Avenue, ran parallel to the tracks. We lived a about 2 very short blocks from the tracks. On a quiet summary night, with the windows open, you could hear the trains go buy. The house was also about 3 blocks from I-95, so we actually heard the highway more than the trains, due to the difference in traffic volume.

After I got married, we lived 2 blocks from the White Plains station on Metro North's Harlem Line for about a year. This line was only double tracked.

Now we own a home in Yorktown Heights, and we have to drive about 15 minutes to get to the closest station on the Harlem line in Katonah. But what we usually do is drive 25 minutes south to North White Plains & get the train there. The station has a huge parking lot.

Tony

[cnw1995]

I live about 4 miles from the UP's Harvard sub that runs from Chicago to Janesville, WI - not much freight action (mostly at night) but lots of Metra. With the weird dissolution of Illinois' whistle laws, I'm starting to hear the horns at night.

[4kitties]

When I was a child in South Bend, Indiana, a GTW double-track spur ran right behind our house. Now, as an adult living in West Baltimore, the nearest tracks are about 4-5 miles from my house. One set belongs to CSX and the other is the Amtrak Northeast Corridor. I can often hear the horns when I'm outside or have windows open. Sure wish I could've bought a house in nearby Halethorpe, though, where I could've been in view of the tracks.

[Anonymous]

I live in BLAIR,nebraska.
All I have to do is walk less a 1,000ft. up to the UP main line,or just look out my front window.
BNSFfan.

[Anonymous]

I live about 5 miles from the old B&A line...now CSX. I can hear the horns at night or during a quiet day. I live in Southern Mass.

[spankybird]

One thing that I have noticed, since ConRail has been taken over by CSX and NS, we have alot of different rail lines on our track. In the ConRail day, we would basicly only see ConRail. Now I see UP, BN, and Santa Fe just to name a few. And of course NS and CSX.

[aiireland]

C&NW track used to be at the end of the block. Now it's a bike trail / walking trail that i use all the time! UP main line runs a few miles away. I enjoy hearing the horns and rumble of the trains as i drift off to sleep. esp. in the spring and fall when the windows are open.

ai

[Anonymous]

I live three miles from the Susi Q RR track that runs through Riverdale NJ. I can hear the trains when I stand outside the front of my house at 6:00a.m.
Bill
www.modeltrainjournal.com

[okiechoochoo]

I live approximately 200 feet or a little less from the Union Pacific main. Hear them all day and all night. Some of them rumble the ground pretty well.

[Anonymous]

I use to live in an old Amtrak passenger car [Placid Lake] it was very nice and very quiet I Think this car was a Great Northern car at one time then after I moved out it became one of the cars on the American Europen Express train, Now I live by the CP rail and the CSX within 4 or 5 blocks.
I highly recommened old stainless steal Passenger cars for club houses or entertainment rooms!!!!

[ChiefEagles]

I live a long ways from any tracks [7 miles]. Can occassionally here one train but the vehicle traffic is so loud here. 20,000 plus vehicles a day pass my house. Bypass over due will be built in a couple of years. Before I retired, my office was a few blocks from the two [three tracks] main lines of CSX, NS and Amtrac. NW is thrown in there somewhere. Seems some of the NC Railroad [yes there is one with a commission] is leased by NW. The NC Railroad trains are run by Amtrac [K-Line models one of the engines].

[Anonymous]

Hay spankybird you are right,ever sence the split up of CONRAIL has brought new life to the strange ways the railroads run today.What REALY kills me is......I saw pure UP power up in the north east and now the BNSF railroad runs pure BNSF power on NS and CSXT rails.The home railroad home front has changed so much that that It's like almost unpridictable any more. You stand track side on your home rail line hopeing to get shots of your own home RR when over a sudden (or in my case on the BNSF) a set of pure CSXT power or a set of pure NS power on a coal train shows up at your location.
It realy makes me wounder sometimes.But thing that makes so angry is when Im railfanning on the BNSF is when Im all worked up to shoot the train.I look through my view finder to my surprise......Oh my god.....pure UNION PACIFIC power ON BNSF rails.
That makes me so mad.Why can't the railroads just keep their power on their own home rails?
BNSFfan.

[Anonymous]

BNSF9838; It's all about the money man! I work on a short line railroad and at any given time I could be running CSX power UP ,BNSF,NS,GTW,ICorCN, every thing from old junk GE stuff to the newest MAC 90's and leased power of all kinds!!,,,,Yes it is weird!
I remember the day when you would never have seen mixed power anywhere!!!

[Anonymous]

My house is about one mile from the North East Corridor. My office is about 200 feet from the West Trenton CSX freight line. When I was growing up, I lived on a hill in Ringoes, NJ. You could hear BRWRR #60 making it's trips back and forth to Flemington (and Lambertville, back then). The sounds of steam power were part of my life. I hope to hear that engine once again... but that may not happen, from what I hear. [:(]

[Anonymous]

Not my home, but my office is about 200 feet from the CN mainline through Wilkes-Barre, PA...train just went by about an hour ago.