Can you hear trains outside at night?

Question

I can sometimes hear them going through Fuquay-Varina faintly.

They are 4 miles away but they are audible. There's no station in FV anymore but they pass through late at night.

I'm hearing one as I ask this question.

Answer 1

Yes, there's a line about 2 miles away.

Most people probably don't mind, but people who live close to the tracks/crossings would likely disagree!

Answer 2

welllll yeah

Seeing as how I am the one blowing the thing all night long.

But from my house no.

There is a line 1/4 mile away but it is a branch line and the local only comes by in the daytime :-)

Those darn grain guys just love making noise and waking people up ya know, (you know how they are).

Answer 3

Absolutely... I live 550 yards from the CalTrain tracks. CalTrain stops running at 11pm, BUT Union Pacific runs a few quick freight runs up and down the Penisula during after midnight into the early morning.

I rarely hear the horn / whistle since in our area, the rails are on a 7 mile long grade-separation (no crossing the roads), but hear the wheels on the gondolas and the hum of the locomotive.

Answer 4

my friend who lived in the hills had that pleasure ----as long as it is not too close-- pleasant ---you do get used to it. I lived about 4 miles from the Zoo--- now that is a noise on hot Summer nights if the wind was in the right direction....

Answer 5

Of course, in some part of NYC, some subways goes outside and I could hear very well.

Answer 6

The Railway is about 300yrds from my Flat, but its in a cutting so all I hear is the faint clunking and the odd hoot. The London trains are most audible as they are accellerating away from Central Station (the Locals stop at St James's Park so are slowing)