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My favorite place of residence was the apartment I lived in during my senior year of college in Cleveland, Ohio. The apartment was a two-bedroom duplex, definitely not luxurious but very comfortable and cozy with wood floors, a high ceiling and a small deck. It was adjacent to campus, at the end of a side street in the safe and relatively quiet Little Italy neighbor, making it a convenient haven to the bustle of University Circle. It was also right beside three sets of double track. Just down the bank were the electrified tracks of the RTA's Red Line, right beside them was the Nickel Plate with a dozen or more NS trains each day, and beyond it was the Cleveland Shortline and its 50-60 CSX trains daily. In my second-floor apartment, both my bedroom and the living room faced the tracks and I slept with the windows open in the spring, summer and early fall. On my first night there, I was awakened by every train, but after that I had no trouble sleeping right through them. Ocassionally I'd have to pause a movie for a particularly vociferous train, but they were rarely a disturbance -- even to my roommate and our girlfriends, none of whom shared my interests. I always tried to guess the locomotives by their approaching sounds. Eastbound geeps on the Nickel Plate were the easiest, barking to beat the band on the grade out of East 55th Street Yard. Following graduation in '02, I moved across town to Lakewood. The neighborhood is great and I'm enjoying an even bigger bedroom. On a quiet night when the wind is just right I can sometimes catch the distant wail of an airhorn, but I miss those trains going by my window! Scott Lothes Cleveland, Ohio
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