Posted on 01/17/2008 6:14:11 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
What am I talking about? I am talking about people who move into houses that are located near the trains, airports etc. then decide that they are bothered by them so they feel they are entitled to make them stop. Cut me a break.
I wasnt talking LOCAL vs.Federal. I was talking about idiots who put themselves into positions and think we all should change to suit them. Afterall they are entitled.
I live about a half mile south of a track. A few months ago I woke up because the house was shaking. I thought we were having an earthquake, but it lasted for over a minute. I realized it was a train passing. I can’t imagine how long and heavy that train must have been to wake me up by shaking the house.
That reminds me of coming home after a long cruise and not being able to sleep in my own bed because without all the normal shipboard sounds it was too quiet.
It seems pie in the sky to think that it is saving lives to add the whistle, when drivers have gone right around the arm and stopped on the tracks or idiots have walked around even when they see the train.
But hey, I appreciate the government saving me again.
“I’m sure they got their homes for cheap due to the noise, now they got a free upgrade thanks to the taxpayers.”
A similar “windfall” happened for my Aunt, who owns a home near Billy Mitchell Field, outside of Milwaukee, WI.
The airport and air base were there first...then the city kept building subdivisions closer and closer to the airport.
Of course, people started whining about the noise (not my Aunt) and the city (taxpayers) forked over millions of dollars to give hundreds of homes new siding, new windows and doors and for some reason, better heating systems to help cut down on the noise.
Insanity! You KNEW you were buying a home near an airport. Yeesh!
I had a house in Cudahy which was also near the airport. Those planes coming in for a landing practically above my head were unnerving at first, but after a while, I didn’t even hear them and got used to the sound of my windows rattling, LOL!
“There’s the 7:20 coming in from Chicago. Wonder who’s having an adventure today?” ;)
Exactly. See my Post 46. :)
“Everyone who grew up here knows someone that has been killed by a train.”
Part of the reason these train stories and the endless WHINING by Madistan Hippies about their warning whistles strikes home is that my Father-in-Law lost his first Wife, (”Sweet Ann” as he calls her), his Sister and his Mother-in-Law due to a train/car crash. (He later married my Husband’s mother and they formed a blended family of 10 kids!)
The tracks (no longer in use now) are 100 yards from the edge of their farm, five miles up the road from our farm. The whistle and crossing arm malfunctioned while the three were returning from town and his wife and family members didn’t stand a chance.
Of course, there was a huge pay-out by those that maintained the crossings, but what consolation could that have been? He was widowed with six kids to raise before he was even 40 years old. :(
It’s sad, but that’s why these “in-towners” whining about buying a home near a railroad track in the first place makes me want to spit nails!
My ex sister-in-law lives 50 feet from a set of tracks.
You don’t get used to it.
Where I grew up in Ronceverte, WV, our house was on the mountain above the Greenbrier River and the railroad. We had no air conditioning so everyone slept with their windows open and screens to keep the bugs out at night. I can still remember lying in bed and hearing the coal trains coming down the valley in the distance. My great-grandfather was an engineer with the railroad and would walk down the mountain and hop aboard.
That would be quite a surprise since the tracks are three miles from here.
I’m about 3 miles from the AKRR too. I hear the whistles and sometimes the engines if it’s quiet otherwise.
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