Is it close to you or can you hear it because it is at night and more quiet?
Sometimes I can hear a train where I live and the train tracks are quite a ways away...several miles at least.
The tracks pass within a mile of my Mission Ridge Kathy, but the whistles echo all through the valley and can be heard coming and going for miles off yonder.
I’ve noticed fewer coal trains lately. Arch Coal just announced a massive layoff and three more mines are closing down forever in WV, KY and VA as well as a few power plants that can’t jump through the EPA regulators flaming hoops. Mr. Peabody and Consol are next on the hit list I reckon and if things don’t chance soon, coal is as dead as the dinasaurs as well as all the service industries that support the coal fields. Our democratic Governor and senators won’t even attend the dem convention for fear they’ll be seen as supporting the obamamonster, but they haven’t the cajones to say they’ll vote against him either. They’ve raided the treasury and fiddle while Rome burns.