In reading this thread, something came to mind that occurred years ago when our son was just 3 years of age.

We were on our way to Florida and stopped to stay overnight in a West Virginia motel. I haden't realized that the motel was right next to a set of RR tracks, and I mean right next to them, when we suddely heard the distant sound of a train approaching. It proceeded to get closer and closer and along with it's horn louder and louder. It sounded like the train was heading straight toward the motel. Without thinking I said to my 3 year old son... "Quick, you open the front door and I'll open the back door so the train can get through our room OK!"

Well I'm sure you can just imagine the blood curdling scream of fear that came out of his little mouth and how bad I felt as I held and assured him that the train wasn't really coming through the room! Fortunately we can laugh about it today, but back then... ???
:sing: OK! Go ahead! Call me a mean daddy! http://freeemoticonsandsmileys.com/a...il%20dance.gif

I have noticed a wide range of signalling. Some pass through with a minimum of horn blasts and those are short "toots". The other extreme are those that seem to just keep blasting away. I wonder if the "blasters" are those who have had accidents. It must be a terrible feeling to see some one or something on the track and not being able to avoid a collision. Any engineer who has experienced this is probably going to be heavy handed on the horn.

As a young adult, I had an apartment that was several blocks from a railroad track. It might be annoying to live too close, but from that distance, oh how I loved the sound of that train! For a long time after I moved, I was homesick for that darn train.

Fellow Villagers....the trains, the trains, the trains.

As a St Charles resident....yup....you can hear um...at times...and....yup...i heard them up in NY before i moved to TV....and also heard the 4 lane inter-state highway up there also, some nights

SO WHAT

anyone that moved to TV with the idea that this was heaven on earth, with no crime, no problems, no inconsiderate people, and o yes...no train noise.....you were wrong.

and o by the way....after at least 55 years on this earth, do you really think the train noise will just disappear because u want it to

come on folks....no place on this earth is perfect...while TV is close....it will not eliminate everything that everyone possiblly would not like

bottom line.....at 55+....stop complaining....enjoy the time you have left in this wonderful place....and....GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes they did an impact study. Of course they didn't pay any attention to local feedback. I will ask about a sound wall, but we are against the wall on466 so I doubt they will listen. We also had meetings about the proposed idea for traffic light at the Lazamora gate. I voted with closing the gate forever, but the powers that be are going to put the light there. I believe the reason a commercial development is ok'd across 466 is that they will have to share the cost of the light. I'm looking for a courtyard villa in the middle of the Villages as we speak.

Where can I buy some of those rose colored glasses?

I like your sense of humor.

Mostly oranges going north and coal coming south (electric plants) this time of the year.

Thanks for the answer, that makes sense.
As far as the noise, I guess that why they invented ear plugs.
(seriously, if the noise bothers you, they do work, I recommend Flents Wax and cotton)

We live on the west side, just to the west of Buena Vista, and a bit north of 466A. Just as I came in and sat down to the computer I heard a train headed north. A very pleasant sound, indeed. Made me want to play a CD with the Orange Blossom Special. That was the route for the Orange Blossom Special you know, by the way.

I enjoy the distant train osunds.

I am with you on that. We live in Hemingway and this morning I could hear a train out in the distance. Quite pleasant!

If you play Amberwood at certain times, the trains and the train whistles are quite loud. Not something I would want to "enjoy" all day and night.

I stayed in a home on Coddington Rd near 301 on a LSV several years ago.

I heard the train whistle one morning in the early AM and decided this was not a location I would buy in. IMHO.

Someone told me that I would tune it out over time but I think it is something I would rather not deal with. It would be annoying to me. IMHO

To each his own.

You got that right!:eclipsee_gold_cup:

Bump, what train?