Houses next to railroad crossings.

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I've seen a house that is right next to a railroad crossing. Just how do the people that live there manage to sleep at night with those trains coming?

You get used to it.

We used to live close to the railroad when I was little, not right next to but very close as the crow flies. None of us had trouble sleeping, and I loved seeing and hearing trains

In college I had a room next to a city subway. It didn't bother me but I had the room all to myself for over half a semester--he couldn't stand the noise and even got a note from the head of the math department!

Although I'm a train and especially railroad crossing enthusiast as some of you already know, I'm not sure even I want to live that close to a railroad crossing or anywhere near the tracks. I mean yeah I like the train horns but sometimes even they scare and bother me, and can be annoying, especially if it's a slow-moving train!

I have no memory of this, but my grandmother had a house, or apartment near a railroad track, near a crossing, and from what I've heard her and my mother say, the trains would be loud. Would probably wake us up. I was a baby so I cannot remember that, and I can remember back to when I was in diapers, but being in my grandmother's house by the tracks isn't one of them! Probably a good thing! But I remember when I was 5 years old and at an Amtrak stop near a crossing in Benson, Arizona and when two freight trains came, they were loud and scared me and made me uncomfortable, especially the horns! I even cried after the second train! Thankfully our Amtrak train came after the second freight train and I didn't have to endure anymore of that!

I did want to live near railroad tracks and where I could see a railroad crossing on a regular basis like I did when I lived in Gouvernuer, New York, U.S.A., but after watching "Train Wrecks," a program on Fox Reality, that opened my eyes! Seeing those train derailments, especially of tank cars (those cars scare me) and seeing houses getting destroyed by crashed trains, and having to evacuate because of spilled hazardous freight cars, it made me have second thoughts and made me decide I dont want to live within a mile of railroad tracks!

I would live near a railroad that only ran passenger trains and where it was a Quiet Zone (Quiet Zones are areas where trains are not to sound their horns even at railroad crossings, unless it's an emergency.) There are more places getting Quiet Zones and someday your place just might be that!

I'd love to have a house or apartment near a railroad track, especially a signalised crossing, so I can walk to it from my apartment or house and back anytime I want instead of having to take buses or get rides from friends just to see them, but even I cannot handle those train noises, especially if I'm trying to sleep and I sleep a lot these days! Like trains and the horns to a point but it's not worth it to live that close to a railway! I prefer to hear the horns from more than a mile away but still be within hearing distance!

I'd also prefer to be a few houses back from a railroad track and crossing so that if a train derails, my house is less likely affected!

So although I'm an avid railfan, even I get bothered by the train horns and don't feel that comfortable living near railroad tracks even if I'm a few blocks away from the nearest track! I want to live close to railroad tracks but not too close!

I was looking at two houses backing onto a railway line. The traffic on the line was minimal though, maybe 2 freighters and the interstate passenger train 4 times a day (twice northbound and twice southbound).

I live right across the street from a railroad switch yard and trains go by all night but mostly I sleep through it.

In college I used to live in an apartment next to the freeway

Loud

At some point, got a little used to it but not sleeping fine

There is a massive railroad yard across from my house, but it's not so bad. You get used to it. Besides, trains are cool.

Wanna trade homes with me?

Actually I'm not so sure, I'm a light sleeper and I get awakened easily.

Oh what the heck, if I cannot sleep, I can step outside the house or wherever you live and whatever you live in and watch the trains and then go back inside when I've had my fill!

I live in Tucson and live more than 4 miles north from the nearest railroad track, although I can still hear the horns a little bit, especially during the winter. I don't understand how in parts of Tucson, especially as far north as Grant Road and east as Kolb Road you can hear the trains during the winter but not during the summer. I used to live on Golf Links Road between Kolb and Wilmot and heard the trains during the winter, especially if I left my window open and if it was cloudy. Where I lived right before, on 36th Street and Mission Road, you could easily hear them and you could see Downtown Tucson from there and that's where four of Tucson's railroad crossings are (they're all on the Union Pacific Sunset Route, which is the main line. Sometimes you can hear the horns of trains on Union Pacific's Nogales Branch from 36th and Mission!) For my safety, I'm not giving my exact location, not even the cross streets, just know I live a little more than four miles north of the nearest track, which also crosses my street further west and next to I-10!



I totally agree!

Well...aren't there some advantages to living near the railroad track? I mean if the tracks are REALLY close to your house!


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