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Nice train sounds this evening . . .

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Started 5 months ago by Jonathan Pryce
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Jonathan Pryce

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What was this noise? Train horns this eve. Perfect damp, dark evening for these sounds!

Posted 5 months ago #
Corvus

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That's the sound of coal heading North.

Sorry, don't get me wrong, I love the sound of trains too, and I'm not all that concerned about whether they are full of coal or not.

Posted 5 months ago #
Ernie

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I hear the train a comin'
It's rollin' 'round the bend,
And I ain't seen the sunshine,
Since, I don't know when.......

http://youtu.be/rX009sWzRQg

Posted 5 months ago #
BHS68

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Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance
Everybody thinks it's true
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3VrmjGWjo

Posted 5 months ago #
OingoBoingo

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I'll bet the homeowners close to the tracks, especially those with a view, might be a bit annoyed with the increased coal train traffic..to say nothing of the horns. Not only in the damp of winter but all the time every day. I prefer fog horns and barking sea lions.

Posted 5 months ago #
Walt

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I had a neighbor who used to live just over the tracks. She said the diesel residue from the train left soot over everything.

Posted 5 months ago #
Ernie

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I'll bet the homeowners close to the tracks, especially those with a view, might be a bit annoyed with the increased coal train traffic..to say nothing of the horns.

well, aren't you just a ray of sunshine.....

Maybe the people who bought houses near the tracks knew that trains would be moving along them and decided that the view was worth it.

Posted 5 months ago #
Edog

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A long time ago a train was considered modern and sophisticated - a real sign of prosperity - so its not uncommon to find really nice old trophy houses built very close to the tracks. Once that fad got old, they all went out and got Ipads.

Posted 5 months ago #
Mondoman

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It's mainly that the trains need flatness, and we mostly only have that for long stretches along the shoreline. If we DO end up with all coal trains all the time, traffic trying to cross the tracks downtown will be a problem, and maybe ship traffic waiting for the railroad bridge at the Locks, too.

Posted 5 months ago #
onederfullone

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NO coal trains!

Never!

btw, I love the whistles, it means money, unless it's a faceboking commuter train, which means taxpayer funded piles of goo headed nowhere.

btw, any coal train smells better, and leaves a smaller footprint than any liberal.

Posted 5 months ago #
Nora Charles

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Wait...I didn't know the coal was already going thru our neighborhood...for some reason I thought that was something that required voting...yay or nay. I heard that train last night...chooo chooo chooo - louder than usual...chooo chooo chooo...

Posted 5 months ago #
Sunset Hill David

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I live on the tracks and I love it. No diesel on my house. However, I am also against the coal trains. They chug along uncovered. A recipe for disaster.

Posted 5 months ago #
onederfullone

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Yeah, we cover all taxpayer funded piles of goo.

Coal should get better.

Posted 5 months ago #
Corvus

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The recent efforts are to block additional coal bearing trains from passing through Seattle en route to Bellingham. We already have 11 or so per day and the number would increase to 17 (last I heard). The Puget Sound Keepers Alliance and UW have done extensive research and found no measurable or only trace amounts of coal dust. Burlington Northern / Santa Fe has been working on methods to control the dust for better than 10 years and have been largely successful. You can also read all about that.

Posted 5 months ago #
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yeah! more coal trains!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6NCx0wcrC4

Posted 5 months ago #
onederfullone

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boogerflicker

if you are going to invoke Coltrane, make it something worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ebhNbHuuWs

Posted 5 months ago #
Nora Charles

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There it is again...choooo chooo cha choooo...

Posted 5 months ago #
Nora Charles

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caboose only...no coal...yet...

Posted 5 months ago #
Nora Charles

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Wow, the train just went by again - toting one car...silent as a lamb...no choo chooing this time. Almost as silent as a Prius. Who knew?

Posted 5 months ago #
SmartsyArtsy

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I used to work in an old creamery building with a train that passed 2x/day. Our building shook when it went by; was little more than an arm's length away. The engineer always gave a hoot and a wave. That was in Charlotte, VT-- in fact that was where they shot Me, Myself, and Irene in 1999

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OingoBoingo

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Woo..woooo! Rumble rumble. Ah! The sound of 'clean coal' going to China.

Posted 5 months ago #
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I do like the 'power past coal' banner at the top of this page.

the little trains are cute and seem to get me in the holiday spirit.

Posted 5 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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RIP ... Jerry Garcia & Brett Mydland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L22izuOf9g

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