I love my adopted home in the South Carolina Low Country.
But my heart does still ache for the sound of steel wheels on rails and that obnoxious horn of a train.
Grew up with it. And since Savannah is port. It is nearly in every town I lived in in GA.
SC. Nothing.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The BNSF line is about a mile from me,about 20 trains or more in 24 hours,so I'm used to the rumble of the engines,the wheel sounds do not carry that far though.
Mike1947
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Oct 2, 2018
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I was probably 1/2 mile from the tracks growing up, and we could clearly hear the rail sounds.
It was a valley on a small rise with larger hills on all sides of us, so that probably affected the acoustics.
Could sometimes clearly hear the conversations of neighbors on their porch in the flat area several hundred yards away.
The same holds true for mid-Missouri. I grew up on Long Island listening to the LI Railroad trains in the morning. I miss the clacking of the wheels of the subways in NYC also. Niel Diamond was right - It's a beautiful noise.
SageDave
Level 7
Oct 2, 2018
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When I said nothing, I meant nothing close enough for me to hear. There is a rail running near Hwy 17 which I believe serves freight and AmTrak.
Standard US Rail is 39 foot long,staggered so the wheels alternate the rail gaps.Continuous welded rail has good and bad,in Summer it expands,putting kinks in the rails,in Winter it contracts due to maintenance needs,a fuel soaked fiber item called "Firesnake",is wrapped or placed next to the rail,so the heat will expand it so the joining bars line up with the holes.It's ignited and the crew waits a few minutes,saw this on the TV series "Railroad Alaska" many times.
I love hearing the train going by. In moderation.
Umbral
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Oct 2, 2018
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Yes. When my ex-husband and I lived in Claxton, GA for a few months, we lived across a two lane road from the from the tracks. The blocks through town were short and by law they have to blow the horn at every crossing.
Conversation or hearing anything else was impossible.
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