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Do you really want to live next to the tracks???????
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I live about a half mile away from an NS yard, so I can hear the trains pretty well. A couple of weeks ago I camped at Lake Nickajack, in Tennessee. About a quarter mile away was a very busy CSX line running from Chattanooga to Birmingham. The water of the lake boosted the sound enough so that I got woken up a few times. <br /> <br />I went over there (train hunting- trusty Canon at my side) and saw a couple of houses with about an acre of backyard between them and the tracks... looking out over the lake. I fell in love with those houses. <br /> <br />I imagine the noise is something you get used to. <br /> <br />The thread kind of reminds me of a real estate commercial running around the TV right now. A couple is out to look for a house- one has nosy neighbors peering in the back window, and one looks beautiful- until an AMTRAK train goes blowing through the back yard. <br /> <br />I wonder if the real estate agent would lower the price of the house? <br /> <br />Erik
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