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I sometimes hear one very close to here. Usually around noon.

I finally found out what is was. A neighbor who lives about a mile away, has a construction business and he also has an old steamboat whistle. I think he blows it to signal but maybe just for his amusement.

There are oddities about sound travel. I live about 300 yards from a rural crossroads. One day I was sitting on the porch and there was some construction work going on there. They were repairing a flashing red light.

I was sitting on the front porch and could hear their conversation as if they were only around 20 feet away.

You reminded me of a couple of funny train stories. Way back when, my brother mounted a one-piston diesel horn on his VW bug. He and his girlfriend would drive into the bushes next to a RR crossing and blast it whenever a car was in the middle crossing the tracks.

Did you ever see the TV movie "Duel" (the first movie Steven Spielberg directed)? Do you remember the scene where he's so tired, he parks by the tracks and doesn't realize it. The same thing happened to our family on a vacation when I was a kid. (Duel scene link below.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmD0fKh0Bjw&feature=related

Don't know where this thread is going but it's fun talking about this stuff - a nice break from Robamaney/GingRick.