Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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You get used to it! I have lived near the tracks and hear whistles blowing every night. Up in New England it is the Amtrak Downeaster and down here it’s all the trains running through Wildwood. Like I said you get used to it and after a while if you don’t hear them you start wondering why!
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I am about a mile from the track, I love hearing the train, reminds me of my childhood riding them from NYC to my grandparents' in Baltimore. It never wakes me up, but sometimes I'm just awake.
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The sound of my people!
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The 3 to 4 minutes thing if accurate, makes me think it was a horn kit. No reason for a train to sound a horn that long unless it was a malfunction. |
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We are off Rainey Trail, maybe a mile east of the tracks. Been here for just over 6 years, and while we’ve always heard the train, it seems to be much more frequent these past months. It has never really bothered us, but at this time of year when doors and windows are open, it’s much more noticeable, especially if one is not fully asleep during the night runs.
I never thought too much about it until the derailment and toxic spill in Ohio last year. We have no idea what’s zipping by in those tankers. There is a new subdivision being built right up against those tracks. Those folks better hope that the builder puts in some good soundproofing! |
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I grew up in a town that had several train companies (is that what they were called?) that traveled through varying times of day. My family lived maybe a mile from a track and one could hear the trains at night if windows were open. It "does" depend on the atmosphere conditions etc. PLUS at night sounds travel more because it's also quiet. In the town we moved here from we lived about 6 or so miles from an Interstate. Windows open at night you could hear, though faintly, the traffic sounds from there. Probably mostly semi-trucks that time of night/day. Never in the day-light hours. Also lived about 10 miles from a race-track and you could hear the roar of those too....if outside, not in the house. Again---sound travels at night differently than the daytime. Trains don't bother me as it brings back childhood memories. What would bother me is if you had several tracks to cross to get to shopping, schools or hospitals----which we had to do, so tried to time it accordingly.
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Just kidding Love the ‘Blue Star Airlines’ Wall Street reference. Great movie! |
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Unnecessary train horn blowing
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We live about a half mile from the train tracks and know there are some train engineers that keep there hand on the horn purposely while going through The Villages. Most of their crossings leads to nowhere The Developer made quiet zones on several crossings so he could sell those houses in Souliere off of 42. Why he didn’t go all the way to 466 is beyond me Michael Scotto. The Village of Chatham |
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