[manaboutown]

Sounds seems to travel further at night, especially when the night is still. As a child I lived five miles as the crow flies from the runway at KAFB in Albuquerque and probably about the same distance from the Santa Fe Railroad station downtown. The tracks ran perpendicularly across my street which ran to and through downtown. I remember hearing faint train whistles at night and the unmuffled loud military jet engines firing up in the very early early morning hours. I was and still am an early riser but the jet engines were loud enough to awaken me; the train whistles not so much. I am still a light sleeper.