[Constitutions Grandchild]

I love steam engines and really love the whistles. When I was young my mother talked how the sound of the trains would be so relaxing. I thought to myself, being a child of the diesel and jet age, “Well, if you like trains, we'll just buy a house next to the airport and you can really get a thrill!” HOWEVER, and its a BIG HOWEVER, THE FIRST TIME THE OLD NARROW GAUGE RAIL STEAM ENGINE CAME DOWN THE TRACKS AND BLEW IT'S WHISTLE (and MAN COULD HE MAKE IT SING), I was hooked.

The peaceful chug, chug, chug and the haunting sweet whistle had me at “hello”. From that point on, being in a small town outside of St. Louis, Missouri, we used to head over to the tracks and wave like Hoosiers every time we heard that whistle blow. I realized then that Mother and I were talking apples and oranges and there IS NOTHING LIKE the sound of a train — at least the ones she remembered.

[Karma Police]

Reading your post gave me goosebumps!

[Notary Sojac]

Give this a listen.

Pennsy K4s wakes up Main Street

[Fresh Wind]

You’re so right, there really is nothing like the sound of a train off in the distance at night, even a diesel horn, which is all I hear anymore.

Once summer years ago I was driving up through northeastern PA and suddenly found myself running right alongside a locomotive, maybe 50 feet off to my left. I looked over and saw the engineer, I waved to him and tooted my horn, and he waved and tooted back. His horn was louder, though. The road curved away, and we both went our separate ways. I never forgot that moment.

There’s something special about a train.

[seemoAR]

There is a steam Locomotive in Chidester, AR. The railroad was started in 1880. It was built to haul logs to a saw mill. It has been shut down for several years. The train is supposed to start running on its 3 mile track soon carrying tourist soon. They are redoing the passenger cars.

They claim it is the “last steam locomotive-powered common carrier standard gauge railroad operating in North America”