10 metres from my kitchen window to the main London to Dover line (UK), trains all day and most of the night! Christmas Day is really quiet as no trains running and it definitely feels like something is missing.
Ian
I live about 200 hundred feet from the nearest line. Its the old PRR branch that ran down the Mon. Its NS now. Across the river I can see CSX. You can hear the horns blowing all the way up and down the river valley. Sometimes at night its relaxing. Also, sometimes the trains and barge drivers blow their horns at each other up and down the river. Thats fun during the day but not so much at night.
My year and a half old son runs to the door to look down the street to see the trains coming by. Depending on where I sit in my living room I can see them go by. We have a great view from our porch and an even better view out our attic window, where my layout is.
I grew up about a quarter mile from the W&LE (was NW when I was a kid... its the old Wabash and P&WV line). Another split from that line runs about a mile from my house now and has a really awesome tressle right along route 88 near Mingo Creek Park. There are alot of rails still left in the Pittsburgh area.
If you drive down the road for 1 or 2 miles, welcome to CSX branch that feeds The Virginia Power. I learned to live with it. I am told they only get trains on select days, but I hear one almost every day.
Hello I live about 100 yards give or take a few yards from the WL/E branch line that runs though Twinsburg into Solon Ohio. I can see the tracks from my front door in the winter .When spring comes the leaves get in the way. The train goes by about 3 am weekdays once in a while it will come by in the day. Have a nice day Frank
I live about 5 miles from the Grand Trunk ..I mean CN doubletrack main that runs north from Detroit to Pontiac and points north. On a still night you can hear the horns at the crossings. Northbound trains a slugging up a long grade and if there's enough units you can hear the rumble of the diesels.
20+ years back I lived about 200 feet from that line and the sounds would knock you out of bed. There'd be 4-5 trains per day until we put the house up for sale, then it seemed there were about 15/day and I think the dispatchers knew the realtor's schedules.
George V.
I live about 6 miles to the nearest tracks (Arkansas Midland) so I don't hear or see anything, alas. I wish I could be along the UP main (9 miles away) that runs through NE Arkansas--they get around 40 trains a day.
About three minutes walk to our main suburban Western line. I regularly see both the Ghan and Indian Pacific roll through and also the monstrous sets of coal trains coming and goin from Lithgow, awesome sight those, quite often with 3 or 4 locos hauling countless coal hoppers
Hi all I live about 800 to 1000 Ft from what is called the Joint line it is the BNSF and Uncle Pete railroads. from my yard I can watch the trains go by This is in Colorado Springs, CO USA