[SamAdams76]

I live about 5 miles away from a railroad crossing and every now and then, I hear the train whistle like it was coming through my back yard. It's really eerie how this only happens every once in a while. Most of the time, I forget all about the fact that there is a railroad nearby because I usually never hear it.

It happened again just a few minutes ago so I googled "train whistle at night" and this thread popped up as one of the first results. So I thought it odd that this thread started only about a month ago.

[yarddog]

Our senior class trip was to Washington DC and to the New York World’s fair.

When we toured the capitol building they showed us how some of the original founders could hear every word their political opponents said across the floor. apparently the dome somehow bounced it back to that place. They demonstrated it and it worked.