[luvie]

I didn’t realize the trains came so close to y’all! I can hear them here late at night and they are about 3 miles away. I kind of like the sound when it’s sort of a long way off. Sort of like the old Hank Williams song talks about. “The midnight train is whining low....”

[radu]

Shoo, the tracks run less than a couple tenths of a mile from us ..... right along the opposite side of Hubby’s cousin’s farm next door. Sometimes they’re hauling heavy loads and we can feel the ground shake.

We can still feel the ground shake now but the corn does make a good buffer for the racket. We still hear them but they aren’t nearly as loud.

[Songcraft]

Hope you don't mind if I butt in to your conversation there, but that is one of my favorite songs, (and I also hope nobody minds if I post that song in a thread focusing mainly on our National Anthem).

Besides the versions on youtube done by Hank, there are many other singers' versions of that song on youtube as well.  (One version there is done by Elvis, and he said in that clip that he thought this is the saddest song he'd ever heard.)

Here's Hank:

       "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"