Damn trains...

[petitepedal ★]

Well actually, the crossing arm..I didnt get up to look..trees kinda block my view..but I could hear the ringing of the crossing  arm for a coup and e of hours last night..obviously..they were stuck. Thankfully...it was only a light clanging in the distance...I am sure it was terrible for a few houses closer to the crossing.  

[Longjohn ★]

Just think some day it will make a nice rails to trails.

[shootingstar]

Sorry to hear that annoying temporary problem, petite.

I'm always amazed by people who buy a home near commuter train lines ...don't they even they think of the dinging bell.  I can see from balcony, far away a transit train amongst screen of park trees and shrubbery. 

As for the transcontinental freight trains:  we NEED them...they bring our bike shipments, potash for farmers, etc.  

What was interesting when we were cycling Burgundy wine region in France, was to suddenly see a fast speed passenger train running through flat area near vineyards out in the country.  It's just something one wouldn't see in CAnada.

I really wish CAnada had a more extensive network of passenger rail.  Every few years, there is a citizen push for rail connection between our city and Banff.

[MickinMD ★]

3 hours ago, petitepedal said:

Well actually, the crossing arm..I didnt get up to look..trees kinda block my view..but I could hear the ringing of the crossing  arm for a coup and e of hours last night..obviously..they were stuck. Thankfully...it was only a light clanging in the distance...I am sure it was terrible for a few houses closer to the crossing.  

When I get back to my house, I'll have to get re-used to an occasional night sound. There's a drawbridge a couple miles from my house on the Patapsco River leading to and from the Chesapeake Bay.  When freighters are going to pass under it in the middle of the night, they sound a few low-pitched horn blasts that can be heard at my house and can be really loud if the atmosphere helps sound transmission.  If the bridge doesn't rise up fast enough for them, they sound several more blasts.

[Razors Edge ★]

3 minutes ago, MickinMD said:

When I get back to my house, I'll have to get re-used to an occasional night sound. There's a drawbridge a couple miles from my house on the Patapsco River leading to and from the Chesapeake Bay.  When freighters are going to pass under it in the middle of the night, they sound a few low-pitched horn blasts that can be heard at my house and can be really loud if the atmosphere helps sound transmission.  If the bridge doesn't rise up fast enough for them, they sound several more blasts.

I like both those ship horns and train whistles.  When we camp up in Shenandoah, the freight trains occasionally roll through at night and you can hear them in the distance. It's never intrusive, but rather just another "different" sound to go along with the other sounds at night.

[jsharr ★]

 

[Rattlecan ★]

8 hours ago, Longjohn said:

Just think some day it will make a nice rails to trails.

Exactly. 

 

[Razors Edge ★]

11 minutes ago, Rattlecan said:

Exactly. 

 

Yep - it's always funny to trains carrying trailers   Oddly, never trucks carrying trains, though

[Rattlecan ★]

3 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Yep - it's always funny to trains carrying trailers   Oddly, never trucks carrying trains, though

Yeah, but I got to pretend I was a  train with my truck. 

[Razors Edge ★]

22 minutes ago, Rattlecan said:

Yeah, but I got to pretend I was a  train with my truck. 

And how well do trains do on snow and ice?????

[petitepedal ★]

5 hours ago, Razors Edge said:

you can hear them in the distance.

Distance is good..1/2 a block away not so much.

[shootingstar]

1 hour ago, Rattlecan said:

Yeah, but I got to pretend I was a  train with my truck. 

That is super long...

[Zephyr]

1 hour ago, Razors Edge said:

Yep - it's always funny to trains carrying trailers   Oddly, never trucks carrying trains, though

One of those "You can put a boat on a ship, but you cannot put a ship on a boat" kind of thing

[Longjohn ★]

[Rattlecan ★]

16 minutes ago, shootingstar said:

That is super long...

Not as long as it looks. Only 130 feet.

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

Speaking of trains. This iconic steam locomotive is rolling through this afternoon. The Norfolk and Southern 611 Steam engine is going up to Strasburg PA to run summer excursions from the train museum up there. The locomotive is spending the night at the Manassas train station nearby before heading up to PA in the morning. 
https://www.vmt.org/2021/04/611-at-strasburg-the-return-of-an-american-icon/

[jdc2000]

13 hours ago, petitepedal said:

.obviously..they were stuck.

There is supposed to be an identification number and a phone number on each crossing signal.  You can call the phone number and report that signal number as malfunctioning.

 

[Ralphie ★]

14 minutes ago, jdc2000 said:

There is supposed to be an identification number and a phone number on each crossing signal.  You can call the phone number and report that signal number as malfunctioning.

 

I Shirley hope it is snot 1-800-EAT-SHIT!