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...Before I moved here, I lived in the heart of the city. The first night a train horn woke me up about 2:00 a.m. My first thought was 'Oh $#!+'. My second thought was 'Hey, its not a gunshot, police siren, car alarm going off, the neighbors fighting or playing their music so loud the bass rattles the windows'. The train horn was over in a few seconds, I went back to sleep, and they've never bothered me since.
Until I was old enough to stay out late carousing with my friends I had no idea that a train came through every morning between 2:00-2:30 a.m.. The first time it happened I was in my late teens and was just dozing off, and I came back to full consciousness with the thought, "Really? They're blowing the horn at this time of the morning?" :mad: Since I had lived there from infancy, I can only assume the train noises became a regular part of my sleep pattern and I simply got used to it.

When my wife and I moved into the house back in 1998 I was looking forward to seeing her reaction to having a freight train blow through at 2:00 a.m.. I hadn't lived there since we got married in 1981, so I didn't know they had stopped using that line in the mid-1990s until the next door neighbor told me. :(
 

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