Anyone but me love the sound of a train at night? It reminds me of my childhood.?

I occasionally visit my Aunt's farm in the middle of Nebraska. It's in a city, population 664 people (and probably 665 cows).

In the middle of town is a train track. The farm is about 8 miles out of town. At night you hear the coal trains chugging down the tracks for miles. I find the sound relaxing, even though it's going on the entire night.

My Aunt & Uncle have long since passed away and my cousins have restored and kept the house in the condition it was always kept in, so yes, it's like going back to my childhood.

And when I leave and come back to Illinois, instead of taking the highway, I take the rural route that has a train track running beside it just so I can try to pass a train and wave at the engineers just like Dad used to have me do when I was a kid.

The year after I graduated college, I lived two blocks away from a large rail yard. All day and all night long, there were trains rumbling through, the drone of train horns, and the crash of cars being coupled. I hardly noticed the sounds after a few weeks.

After that, I moved into a house in a very rural farming community. I couldn't sleep for a week; the quiet was deafening!

Now, I live in a train town again. There's even an old steam train for the tourists, and one can hear the steam whistle for miles. Again, I hardly notice the sound of the trains. Occasionally I realize there is a train providing background noise, and it makes me smile.

I used to live near the tracks (actually they were about 2 miles away) but could hear the local commuter train loud and clear... The horn was almost always audible up onto the hilltop I lived on and on a clear night outside you could hear the train clacking on the rail joints, getting to the trestle (hollow sound) and even the rumble of the engine some days! The best thing was it lasted for a few minutes as the train worked its way through the valley...

Now where I live there are 4 freights daily but I'm too far away to hear them.

I actually find hearing things at night relaxing.. There's other life out there... LOL.

I used to live yards away from the train track. I would keep my window open even late into fall so the 2 am train would wake me up. Not only could I hear the whistle and the engine, but there was the sound of the wheels running over the tracks. Now, I live almost a mile away, and it is sad. I hear the whistle sometimes, but that's about it.

Where I live now, there are not many trains. However, we lived in Southern Illinois for a few years and the train tracks were very close by. I loved listening to the train, day or night. :)

After a longpersistent (or now and again only a lengthy day, briefpersistent) i favor to sit down in my driveway, after I easily have became of my van, tip decrease back the seat, and hear the sounds that bounce off of my van on a chilly moist nighttime. I also like the engine cooling down with the rain. there is something look after, and cuddly about it. it really is like at the same time as i turned right into a baby, wrapped up in a blanket.

I also like hearing trains at night. This is a memory I have from my childhood. I thought I was the only one like this...guess not. I guess I'm normal!!

There is nothing like the sound of a train in the distance at night to stir all sorts of wonderful creative thoughts, including those of childhood. Thanks for the memory.

LOL... In my childhood years I would hear the train at night and be scared half to death for fear that it was going to come through my room and get me.

at times i think the sound of one in the distance at night is cool. it reminds me of my childhood also.