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Train Whistle heard at night though not near any tracks for miles
February 25, 2012 | Beowulf9

Posted on 02/25/2012 7:04:02 AM PST by Beowulf9

At night I hear a train whistle where I live, only occasionally and actually rarely. Have heard it about 3 or 4 times in about 7 years.

Thing is I live about 7 miles from a train track. Is it possible to hear a train whistle that far away?

and it does sound kind of ghostly, echoey, resonates.

I wondered if anyone else hear knows how far a train whistle can be heard.

I live in Phoenix Az, by Camelback Mountain.


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: night; train; vanity; whistle
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To: Beowulf9

By the way, was it a whistle, as in a steam engine, or a horn, as in a diesel?

Don’t forget that there’s a narrow gauge steam railroad at Scottsdale and Indian Bend in the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park.


41 posted on 02/25/2012 7:37:03 AM PST by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the rollin' homey empire.)
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To: Beowulf9

We have some idiot locally who equipped his pickup truck with a horn that sounds like a train whistle. Scares the carp out of you if you hear it close by in traffic. Perhaps he is driving in your neighborhood too.


42 posted on 02/25/2012 7:37:04 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Limbaugh: Tim Tebow miracle: "He had atheists praying to God that he would lose.")
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To: meatloaf
Sounds like he got hold of a copy of The Compleat Practical Joker

Or perhaps he inspired it.

43 posted on 02/25/2012 7:37:08 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Beowulf9

When I was a kid, my parents had a record of train sounds; one side steam, the other side diesel-electric.

Maybe one of your neighbors has a copy of it.


44 posted on 02/25/2012 7:38:08 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Beowulf9

Travel

The railroad track is miles away,
And the day is loud with voices speaking,
Yet there isn’t a train goes by all day
But I hear its whistle shrieking.

All night there isn’t a train goes by,
Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming,
But I see its cinders red on the sky,
And hear its engine steaming.

My heart is warm with friends I make,
And better friends I’ll not be knowing;
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take,
No matter where it’s going.

Edna St. Vincent Millay


45 posted on 02/25/2012 7:40:10 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("And the public gets what the public wants" -- The Jam)
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To: yoe
Overcast clouds can also reflect sound back to ground. In Clearwater, Florida, in the 60s, on a very quiet, high overcast cloud night, with strong east winds, you could hear the large missiles launch from the Cape 120+ miles away. Of course they are very loud to start with, but thetas a lot more then 7 miles.
46 posted on 02/25/2012 7:40:24 AM PST by MindBender26 (New Army SF and Ranger Slogan: Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord.... but He subcontracts!)
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To: SkyDancer
Needless to say she no longer parties that hard. Anymore.

Thank G-d she is still with us. She is luckier than many others...

47 posted on 02/25/2012 7:42:18 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: eyedigress

I don’t know about the mounting of it, but there is a car in our area that has a horn that sounds like a train whistle. Weird when he hits that at night when everything is relatively still.


48 posted on 02/25/2012 7:43:04 AM PST by Helen
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To: Helen

There are lots of you tubes of people driving around scaring pedestrians half to death with these kits.


50 posted on 02/25/2012 7:46:19 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: Beowulf9

Something about train whistles in the night. It can carry for miles. We lived about as far from the train tracks in the Almaden area of San Jose, and could hear the train way in the distance in the still of the night - at least 7 or 8 miles miles away.


51 posted on 02/25/2012 7:46:51 AM PST by PapaNew
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To: Beowulf9

Yes it is possible to hear a train whistle for long distances.

It is also possible you have a neighbor similar to ourselves out here in the sticks that has a trucking service, and has mounted a train air horn on his truck. Sounds just like a locomotive when he passes his friends ranch up the valley about a half mile from here as he honks, and waves.


52 posted on 02/25/2012 7:50:59 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus

Probably just a train whistle bouncing off the giant mothership overhead.


53 posted on 02/25/2012 7:55:51 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Beowulf9
You do know that some truckers put train horns on their trucks????
54 posted on 02/25/2012 7:56:26 AM PST by org.whodat (Sorry bill, I should never have made all those jokes about you and Lewinsky, have fun.)
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To: Beowulf9

>>>Heard it at midnight, why would a train whistle blow at midnight? I read that in Tempe they actually made a law they can’t blow the whistle because of complaints.

Trains are required by federal DOT Rules to blow horns/whistles as they approach road crossings - depending on what kind of controls are at the crossings. If municipalities desire no whistles, there’s a lot they have to do at crossings to make it possible for trans to be silenced.


55 posted on 02/25/2012 7:58:17 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
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To: SkyDancer

good thing she wasn’t flying a plane.......


56 posted on 02/25/2012 8:06:03 AM PST by goat granny
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To: annieokie

It seems like all new refrigerators are much louder than the models made 20+ years ago. It isn’t specific to just Whirlpool. I think the chinese or whoever is making them now skimp on materials to make them as cheap as possible.


57 posted on 02/25/2012 8:06:03 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood
I have an idea on this noise. Perhaps if they take the back off and put in some insulation around the noise place, that is if they can find it. Think that would work, otherwise I like the Fridge and of course learn to live with this.

I bought a KitchenAid, had it for about 6 months. Made them order new doors, (scratches) and the doors would not seal. So this Whirlpool is a replacement, lol.

58 posted on 02/25/2012 8:11:01 AM PST by annieokie
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To: Beowulf9
Thing is I live about 7 miles from a train track. Is it possible to hear a train whistle that far away?

Yup, I can hear one from about 8 or 9 miles away at night sometimes.

59 posted on 02/25/2012 8:14:18 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Beowulf9

That’s not a train, it’s a snowbird lost on Squaw Peak.


60 posted on 02/25/2012 8:20:58 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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