Train is too loud!?

Question

A friend: They just bought a house, a one story house, and in back yard theres a 8 foot wall, before they bought the house, they couldnt see on the other side of the wall, they bought it friday, and Today was the first time a train went by! its only 15 feet away from the wall! It stuck above the 8 foot wall, its so loud, in the house you cant even hear the people talking, it was so shocking to see a train, kinda in your back yard! What can they do? Can they get better winodws?

Answer 1

I would love it because I live about a block away from the tracks and sometimes I mute the TV just to hear the train go by.

   As for the sound of the train when I am sleeping I never hear it, just to used to it.

  I know this is going to sound crazy but I would like to be the first person to have a house that goes over the track, kind of like the McDonald's in Oklahoma over Interstate 44.

Answer 2

Some people need to look over the local surrounding before they buy a house.You never know what's on the other side of that wall. How can you buy a house and not do that??

Answer 3

I'm surprised they never looked at a map or a plan, or something like google earth or microsoft location finder.

Answer 4

No surprise, they just moved there.  

In a week or two they won't even notice it.  It takes me about 2-3 days before I start sleeping through trains going by... and I'm a railfan!...

Train wheels make noise at the bottom, i.e. at rail height.  That 8 foot wall should be blocking the sound pretty well.  My hunch is it's going around the 8 foot wall, or bouncing off another wall on the other side of the tracks.

That'll teach 'em to care about who their backyard neighbor is next time.  Well coulda been worse, coulda been a pickle factory...

Answer 5

yea, they can get better windows, or just enjoy the train.

i'd love to have a train go by my house like that, i love the sound, it's soothing to me.