Train Horns

[Marius_Ursus]

There's a track not too far from where I live, and I can hear it as the train comes through every night, the horn echoing in the distance. It's not too loud, not enough to bother me, but the harmonious collection of notes it issues sounds just like the opening notes of "Bohemian Rhapsody".

It's not at all unpleasant. I love Queen. It's just funny that every time I hear that horn, I start singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" in my head.

[RonGoon]

the song "ima gonna jump that train and beat the livin **** outta that mutha fuker if he pulls that horn again" used to come to my mind.

[Marius_Ursus]

ROFL

That's what song I started singing when I lived in Texas. I swear with the lack of trees and flat land it sounded like the train was right outside my window.

[Simpy]

You might be singing Queen, but I'm now singing Johnny Cash.

[RonGoon]

ROFL

That's what song I started singing when I lived in Texas. I swear with the lack of trees and flat land it sounded like the train was right outside my window.

that was when the tracks were like 40 yards from the front door...usually between 2 and 4am...house was midway between 2 of the 3 crossings in town...gaaaaaaa.

[Marius_Ursus]

You might be singing Queen, but I'm now singing Johnny Cash.

I hear a train a-comin'
Comin' round the bend

that was when the tracks were like 40 yards from the front door...usually between 2 and 4am...house was midway between 2 of the 3 crossings in town...gaaaaaaa.

That's when the train passed through New Braunfels, too! It woke us up every damn night.

[Nikonguy]

in for youtube vids from "My Cousin Vinny"

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[OTH51]

When I was a kid my grandmother lived in a house right across from the elevated line in Brooklyn. The whole house shook when the train passed.

Think the French Connection.....

[Marius_Ursus]

in for youtube vids from "My Cousin Vinny"

cantpostfromwork.fail

We all appreciate the thought and effort!

Great movie.

When I was a kid my grandmother lived in a house right across from the elevated line in Brooklyn. The whole house shook when the train passed.

Think the French Connection.....

Wasn't that a running joke on a bunch of 70s sitcoms?

[OTH51]

Wasn't that a running joke on a bunch of 70s sitcoms?

Were you picking your toes in Poughkepsie?

That line?

[SP1966]

Speaking of Queen, at least every other time my oldest daughter rides in the car with me the song Fat Bottomed Girls plays. I'm serious, on the radio not a CD/MP3 player, it has become her theme song!! She is 24 now and this has been going on since High School. I just smile and she groans.

[Marius_Ursus]

Were you picking your toes in Poughkepsie?

That line?

LOL...no. I meant the train shaking the apartments along the El.

Speaking of Queen, at least every other time my oldest daughter rides in the car with me the song Fat Bottomed Girls plays. I'm serious, on the radio not a CD/MP3 player, it has become her theme song!! She is 24 now and this has been going on since High School. I just smile and she groans.

Weird.

[SP1966]

LOL...no. I meant the train shaking the apartments along the El.



Weird.

No doubt. And it happens she is rather blessed in the bottom dept! LOL Very strange...

[Marius_Ursus]

No doubt. And it happens she is rather blessed in the bottom dept! LOL Very strange...

I had something similar happen to me when a very close childhood friend died about 15 years ago. When I was driving back to San Diego from Los Angeles after the funeral, "Lightning Crashes" started playing on the radio. As the song finished, the station would fade out, so I'd hit the scan button to pick up the next station along that I could pick up driving down I-5. The next station the radio stopped on was playing "Lightning Crashes".

This happened at least a half dozen times in sequence.

[SP1966]

I had something similar happen to me when a very close childhood friend died about 15 years ago. When I was driving back to San Diego from Los Angeles after the funeral, "Lightning Crashes" started playing on the radio. As the song finished, the station would fade out, so I'd hit the scan button to pick up the next station along that I could pick up driving down I-5. The next station the radio stopped on was playing "Lightning Crashes".

This happened at least a half dozen times in sequence.

Wow! Makes a person wonder, chance or real meaning in it?

[mslman71]

I used to live right next to BWI and then in my current town, dated a girl who had train tracks right behind her house. Acclimation to the ground shaking window rattling thunder that I experienced at both of these places was not too difficult. The one thing that got me about the staying over at her place near the tracks was that on occasion, late at night, the freight train would stop for a while. When it started back up I guess the tensioning in the linkage mechanism between cars would occur in a huge cascading thunder clap that sent me straight out of the bed every time.

[Corbi]

Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry didn't hear the train horn.

[GnomusMaximus]

that was when the tracks were like 40 yards from the front door...usually between 2 and 4am...house was midway between 2 of the 3 crossings in town...gaaaaaaa.

That's me, the CSX line goes right through my back yard. Big excitement the other day, two box cars derailed.

[Whatanejit]

There's a track not too far from where I live, and I can hear it as the train comes through every night, the horn echoing in the distance. It's not at all unpleasant. I love Queen. It's just funny that every time I hear that horn, I start singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" in my head.

Fabulous song!

Speaking of Queen, at least every other time my oldest daughter rides in the car with me the song Fat Bottomed Girls plays. I'm serious, on the radio not a CD/MP3 player, it has become her theme song!! She is 24 now and this has been going on since High School. I just smile and she groans.

I had something similar happen to me when a very close childhood friend died about 15 years ago. When I was driving back to San Diego from Los Angeles after the funeral, "Lightning Crashes" started playing on the radio. As the song finished, the station would fade out, so I'd hit the scan button to pick up the next station along that I could pick up driving down I-5. The next station the radio stopped on was playing "Lightning Crashes".

This happened at least a half dozen times in sequence.

I hate it when that happens.

A time that I recall was when one of my old male friends had his heart broken by a girl he was engaged to.

We went out a lot together (as friends) and everytime I picked him up from his house the car radio would belt out some heart breaking song like..

'All by Myself'



or

'I can't live if living is wihout you'



Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!

[paolo59]

The sound of a distant train horn is comforting somehow. It's amazing what sights, sounds, or smells can conjure up in your mind and spirit. It's sort of like hearing a coyote at night, or the faint, distant, knocking sound of those old see-saw oil pumps out in West, Texas. The hearing makes you feel good!

[Simpy]

The sound of a distant train horn is comforting somehow. It's amazing what sights, sounds, or smells can conjure up in your mind and spirit. It's sort of like hearing a coyote at night, or the faint, distant, knocking sound of those old see-saw oil pumps out in West, Texas. The hearing makes you feel good!

When I was in college I had this great apartment that I rented for dirt cheap, in part, I believe, because it was right next to the railroad. It took me quite a while to get used to the rumbling and whistling, especially at night. I would awake in terror at first. But then it became a comfort to me, just like you said. When we moved away I felt a bit bereft. Lonesome, even. I miss the sound.

[KrohDaddi]

the neighbourhood i live in is called the West Bend of the Junction

i am within a quarter-mile of numerous intersecting train lines
all night the house actually moves with the rolling thunder

the houses here float and twist like rafts at sea
between the liquefaction induced by the vibrating train tracks and the recent earthquake, every house for miles is festooned in a spider's web of cracks

they all seem to have been hastily-erected in a 19th century building boom brought on by the railway expansions, and are on marshlands rudely filled in with loose soil along the antique coach line that was originally a cord du roy road through swamp

this was saloon, brothel, and intrigue country

many things vanish into swamps in lawless times

the creek that apparently was filled in to accomodate my street still makes its inevitable way through
filtering down cellar walls and draining relentlessly towards the Big Lake exactly as though none of this were here

[Marius_Ursus]

I feel like I just read Edgar Allen Poe.

Well done.

[paolo59]

I feel like I just read Edgar Allen Poe.

Well done.

Really! Quite a vivid and impacting description!

[Nikonguy]