[SamAdams76]

I was taking the dog for a walk around sunset and I thought of your thread. There is a "ghost neighborhood" near my house where they paved some new roads but never got around to building houses there. So it's a great place to take the dog for a walk where you don't have to worry about traffic.

So on top of the hill, where the really expensive houses will (or might) eventually get built, I heard train whistles off in the distance. Now the Danbury branch of the Metro North Line passes a good 10 miles from my house as the crow flies so I was amazed to hear the whistles so clearly. That is the closest active railroad to where I live.

It was definitely eerie as the sun had set and it was getting very dark with just a smudge of orange/red in the western horizon.

[SamAdams76]

BTW, I should mention that I live in a new house now in Connecticut. When I posted here three years ago, I was living up in northern Massachusetts.

[Beowulf9]

I often think of this column, the answers and stories were so interesting. It’s nice to know those who love the sounds of trains.

Danbury? Mass?

I can imagine the eeriness. What a picture, sung going down nearly completely and the sound of the train whistle.

Fascinating.

[Beowulf9]

Couple of nights ago heard this train blow it’s whistle at 1:30 am.

Have not heard it for long time, years, perhaps since when I wrote this column. There is a law in Tempe, Az that forbids the trains from blowing their whistles unless something is on the tracks.

Of course I wondered why the whistle was blown.

But I also thought of this column and those wonderful posts people wrote, including yours.