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Post by atsda on Nov 2, 2022 2:20:41 GMT
Periodically, when i'm in the attic at night working on my layout, I hear the familiar grade crossing horn signal. From my location, it's towards the southwest - a few miles away. My guess is that it is a CSX freight. Over the last two weeks, I've often heard a train; that has not been the case over the past few months. What running near your neighb orhood? Do you go to trackside for a view>? Alfred
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Post by dennym57 on Nov 2, 2022 14:48:37 GMT
Unfortunately the train that came through my town has been discontinued. It use to come in from Chicago to Grand Rapids. The closest train route now is 10 miles from me. It is a freight line that also has Amtrak service. It's only twice a day. Morning it's going to Chicago and evening it's coming from.
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Post by Adam on Nov 2, 2022 15:58:09 GMT
The two towns on either side of ours have trains running through them. On one side is the MBTA commuter train. On the other is a freight line but I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know which rail companies use it. I do hear the trains from both towns.
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Post by Country Joe on Nov 2, 2022 18:21:46 GMT
The Florida East Coast runs a number of trains through Vero Beach each day. I don't go to watch trains but if I am near the tracks I stop and watch the train.
The grade crossings are being upgraded right now so Brightline will eventually run through town.
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Post by atsda on Nov 2, 2022 18:23:02 GMT
I am wondering if freight service is down? In the past, I would hear the diesel horn more than once in an evening/night. Now, I rarely hear that. Alfred
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Post by redjimmy1955 on Nov 14, 2022 13:04:11 GMT
We live fairly close to the "old mainline" of the B&O, that would be Monrovia, Md. I can hear the trains and warning toots, especially in the evenings.
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Post by lirr1926 on Nov 17, 2022 20:30:41 GMT
I'm between the NJT Bergen County Line and the Mainline. Part of the old Eire mainline that went into downtown Passaic as street running. Heavy commuter service and the occasional local freight.
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Post by atsda on Nov 18, 2022 0:32:16 GMT
LIRR1926, Welcome to OGF. Thanks for the NJ train info. I lived in Piscataway for a short time and would watch the trains traverse the Raritan Bridge. I grew up in NYC - What is your connection to the Long Island RR? Alfred
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Post by old97 on Nov 18, 2022 2:06:51 GMT
I'm down the hill from Mile marker 10 D&RGW . Moffat tunnel route.
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Post by joeh on Nov 18, 2022 22:03:06 GMT
We live a 10 minute walk to our "local" train station, then a 35 minute ride into the Philadelphia Amtrak station. The "local" is free for those 65+, and my Amtrak credit card has given us free trips.
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Post by highvoltage on Nov 19, 2022 16:27:21 GMT
Where I grew up in Ohio we lived in a valley between two railroads, the (now defunct) Akron, Canton, and Youngstown (AC&Y) and a B&O line. On warm summer nights with the windows open I could hear the whistles and horns of the engines on the AC&Y tracks about 1/4 mile to the west. The B&O line was about 1/4 mile to the east, but down at the bottom of a rather steep hill, so we rarely heard those.
Now where we live in southern Delaware, there are only industrial sidings. Once in a while we'll hear a distant train horn, but not often.
We do, however, have a fire engine in town called the "Night Train." It sports a rather loud train horn, which it uses quite a bit when it's on a run and approaching traffic.
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Post by lirr1926 on Nov 20, 2022 4:06:21 GMT
Alfred
Grew up in Patchogue less than a block from the train station. Old enough to have memories of steam days and the first diesels. Lived in Manhattan for a few years and then moved to NJ.
David
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Post by atsda on Nov 29, 2022 20:52:39 GMT
Dave (LIRR1926), In the late 60's, when my friend and I were in high school , we would take the LIRR to its East end for fun; I don't recall if they were diesel led at that time. Alfred
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Post by atsda on Nov 29, 2022 22:35:10 GMT
Highvoltage, that is unique about the fire engine with the train horn. Alfred
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Post by atsda on Nov 29, 2022 22:39:10 GMT
Joe, that is good about being close to the local train; and a nice benefit on the Amtrak card. It has been years since I've been at the Philadelphia station; when I was doing a good deal of train travel (mostly for fun) I would pass through the city en route. Alfred
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