And I stopped noticing them pretty quickly too.
Fortunately, they were electric. Occasionally, a diesel electric would rumble by, and that would draw attention.
One woman I knew lived about as close as you could to the tracks, as in, her backyard abutted them, and during a RR strike, she said she and her husband would wake up in middle of the night because the trains weren't going by.
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.