Posted on 02/25/2012 7:04:02 AM PST by Beowulf9
At night I hear a train whistle where I live, only occasionally and actually rarely. Have heard it about 3 or 4 times in about 7 years.
Thing is I live about 7 miles from a train track. Is it possible to hear a train whistle that far away?
and it does sound kind of ghostly, echoey, resonates.
I wondered if anyone else hear knows how far a train whistle can be heard.
I live in Phoenix Az, by Camelback Mountain.
By the way, was it a whistle, as in a steam engine, or a horn, as in a diesel?
Don’t forget that there’s a narrow gauge steam railroad at Scottsdale and Indian Bend in the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park.
We have some idiot locally who equipped his pickup truck with a horn that sounds like a train whistle. Scares the carp out of you if you hear it close by in traffic. Perhaps he is driving in your neighborhood too.
Or perhaps he inspired it.
When I was a kid, my parents had a record of train sounds; one side steam, the other side diesel-electric.
Maybe one of your neighbors has a copy of it.
Travel
The railroad track is miles away,
And the day is loud with voices speaking,
Yet there isn’t a train goes by all day
But I hear its whistle shrieking.
All night there isn’t a train goes by,
Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming,
But I see its cinders red on the sky,
And hear its engine steaming.
My heart is warm with friends I make,
And better friends I’ll not be knowing;
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take,
No matter where it’s going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Thank G-d she is still with us. She is luckier than many others...
I don’t know about the mounting of it, but there is a car in our area that has a horn that sounds like a train whistle. Weird when he hits that at night when everything is relatively still.
There are lots of you tubes of people driving around scaring pedestrians half to death with these kits.
Something about train whistles in the night. It can carry for miles. We lived about as far from the train tracks in the Almaden area of San Jose, and could hear the train way in the distance in the still of the night - at least 7 or 8 miles miles away.
Yes it is possible to hear a train whistle for long distances.
It is also possible you have a neighbor similar to ourselves out here in the sticks that has a trucking service, and has mounted a train air horn on his truck. Sounds just like a locomotive when he passes his friends ranch up the valley about a half mile from here as he honks, and waves.
Probably just a train whistle bouncing off the giant mothership overhead.
>>>Heard it at midnight, why would a train whistle blow at midnight? I read that in Tempe they actually made a law they can’t blow the whistle because of complaints.
Trains are required by federal DOT Rules to blow horns/whistles as they approach road crossings - depending on what kind of controls are at the crossings. If municipalities desire no whistles, there’s a lot they have to do at crossings to make it possible for trans to be silenced.
good thing she wasn’t flying a plane.......
It seems like all new refrigerators are much louder than the models made 20+ years ago. It isn’t specific to just Whirlpool. I think the chinese or whoever is making them now skimp on materials to make them as cheap as possible.
I bought a KitchenAid, had it for about 6 months. Made them order new doors, (scratches) and the doors would not seal. So this Whirlpool is a replacement, lol.
Yup, I can hear one from about 8 or 9 miles away at night sometimes.
That’s not a train, it’s a snowbird lost on Squaw Peak.
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