In reply to Enyar:
Just out of curiosity, what railroad company is it?
In reply to Enyar:
Just out of curiosity, what railroad company is it?
DaveEstey wrote:mtn wrote:You get used to the stress. The stress doesn't go away. http://www.npr.org/2011/05/14/136288954/noise-pollution-hard-on-heart-as-well-as-earsDaveEstey wrote: Not a healthy place to live, even if you get used to it.Why not? (honest question)
+1 to this. When I was in boston I lived where planes would fly over on approach to the airport. I saw air force 1 once, but the noise was terrible for sleep. plus after a while I felt just ill (to be fair, some of that was just living in boston, but sleep would've helped). Then I moved to another place, also under the approach of incoming jets but with insanely great noise insulation. sleep much improved. It still made me miss Wisconsin where it was so quiet I could hear truck tires on the interstate a mile away.
Where I live now in upstate NY I get occasional train noises, but they are miles away. This is by far the best I've felt since I first moved to Boston.
SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: In reply to Enyar: Just out of curiosity, what railroad company is it?
Based on the complaints I've been reading on facebook posts and news articles I've found, it's CSX. Not 100% sure though.
Appleseed wrote: Try living off the end of a runway. Bizjet turbojets are BERKING LOUD. You get used to it. Trust me.
This.
The last base I was stationed, MCAS Beaufort, my shop was less than a 1/4 mile from the end of the runway where the F18s would start to roll. That is the loudest E36 M3 I have ever heard. When you were standing outside the shop it would vibrate your chest. I have never been to a NHRA/top fuel drag race but I assume they are similar. You got used to it though. When in the middle of a conversation you would just wait for however many pairs were taking off then get back to what you were saying. Even on the phone inside the office you would have to tell the person on the other end of the line to wait.
Also, the barracks I was in was on the downwind of the traffic pattern. You wouldn't think it would be all that loud but you have probably never had the chance to hear an F18 squadron doing night time carrier quals. They are flying low, slow, and loud. Really sucked because no ones cell phones could get service in the barracks.
me too! :D
25 feet from the train tracks, got used to it in weeks.
I used to live directly above train tracks in a building with a rail siding, so the trains almost touched the building, and there was a crossing adjacent to the building. I was even on the side that faced the tracks; if I jumped out my window I would have landed on the train. The horns were amazingly loud and the whole building shook and rumbled with the train passing. Didn't sleep at all the first night and slept like a baby from then on out.
And of course after I moved they re-graded and re-leveled the tracks which almost completely eliminated the rumble and shaking. Laminated non-operable windows in the building helped the horn a ton.
Anti-stance wrote:Appleseed wrote: Try living off the end of a runway. Bizjet turbojets are BERKING LOUD. You get used to it. Trust me.This. The last base I was stationed, MCAS Beaufort, my shop was less than a 1/4 mile from the end of the runway where the F18s would start to roll. That is the loudest E36 M3 I have ever heard.
On two occasions, I had test plots off the ends of runways (Shaw AFB and Montgomery, AL airport (air NG base). Both times they were still flying F-4 Phantoms. I know what you mean.
I lived across the street from a rail line in college at the exact point where they started blowing the horn for the crossing a block away. We were also under the landing pattern for the Marine F18s at Dobbins AFB who had a rep for landing in full flaps and the engine firewalled just to be noisy. The house was a 1940s econobox, so you can guess how great the insulation was.
The first month I thought I was going to go insane. Two months in I couldn't go to sleep until I'd heard the 11:00 go by and I couldn't sleep at all when I went home to visit.
Although most insulation changes could be in depth for a rental, you might be able to put up a few privacy fence panels to block the line of sight to the tracks, then back them with foam sheet insulation. It might look a little ghetto, but it would be easy and work like an interstate sound barrier.
The loudest plane I have ever heard was a Harrier 'jump jet'. Damn it's loud and to boot it has a quality like fingernails on a chalkboard. Not sure I could learn to sleep through that.
ultraclyde wrote: I lived across the street from a rail line in college at the exact point where they started blowing the horn for the crossing a block away. We were also under the landing pattern for the Marine F18s at Dobbins AFB who had a rep for landing in full flaps and the engine firewalled just to be noisy. The house was a 1940s econobox, so you can guess how great the insulation was. The first month I thought I was going to go insane. Two months in I couldn't go to sleep until I'd heard the 11:00 go by and I couldn't sleep at all when I went home to visit. Although most insulation changes could be in depth for a rental, you might be able to put up a few privacy fence panels to block the line of sight to the tracks, then back them with foam sheet insulation. It might look a little ghetto, but it would be easy and work like an interstate sound barrier.
Best I can tell, they are coming from directly East, but there are at least 19 houses from the tracks. I'll see what I can figure out from where it's coming from.
ultraclyde wrote: I lived across the street from a rail line in college at the exact point where they started blowing the horn for the crossing a block away. We were also under the landing pattern for the Marine F18s at Dobbins AFB who had a rep for landing in full flaps and the engine firewalled just to be noisy. The house was a 1940s econobox, so you can guess how great the insulation was.
Ha! I lived basically across the street from Dobbins from 2004 to 2012. The Marine and Navy squadrons were gone so it was only an occasional F22 coming out of Lockheed, C130s, C17s, C5s, etc. I know the tracks you are talking about. I was on the side closer to I75.
I do remember when I was growing up as a kid in Houston, there was a railroad track about 1-2 miles from my house as the crow flies. I could not only hear the horns but at night while everyone was in bed, you could hear the cars along the tracks. I could only imagine being right next to a pretty active railroad would be pretty damn annoying.
According to google maps, I'm about 1400 feet away.
a nineteen year old girl next door is suning in the nude it's hell to have the subdivision blues.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96sQNzJdwWA
SVreX wrote: I lived in a place like that in college. Tracks were 15' away from my window. Building shook when it went by. Sound was deafening. You'd be surprised how thoroughly you will adjust. Got to the point where I never heard it. You are correct, however, that your guests will never sleep. Mine would go running out of the room thinking it was an earthquake, while I stood there with a stupid look on my face saying, "What's wrong?"
This. I know a few guys who rented an old converted train station from one of their professors in college. Problem was, freight trains still went by, every day or so, including in the middle of the night. They said exactly the same thing as SVreX: Your body and mind is 100% capable of adjusting, to the point you often literally won't even notice.
I've had the sound machine you pictured, yes. It is nothing more than a fan that you can control how loud or soft that it is. I currently have this one http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F54AN8/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 that I use in hotels. The good thing about this one is you have several different sounds which seemed to make it better for different situations.
Toyman got used to the train quickly. Me, it took a bit more time to adjust to it. This all depends on you and your level of deep sleep. It DOES get better in time.
Jake: "How often does the train go by?"
Elwood: "So often you won't even notice it."
As others said, you get used to it. My dad lives about a block from a busy freight rail. After about a month you don't notice it at all, unless you get a really jerky engineer that insists on blowing the whistle for MILES. Regardless, you'll adapt and it will end up being soothing. When I moved out I actually missed the sound. Now, I love when the Polar Express runs and I get to hear it again.
Day 2 of the move. I heard one train at 10 pm when I was cleaning the bathroom and had the window open. I proceeded to take the hot tub cover and propped it up against the window facing where I think the sound is coming from. Then I closed all the blinds, curtains and every single door inside the house.Turned on the A/C,both ceiling fans in the room and a little portable fan I brought from work (for white noise). I had ear plugs ready but not in and proceeded to sleep like a baby! Not sure if there were just less trains or I just couldn't hear them but either way, slept great and feeling better about this move.
I'm gonna laugh when you find the sound of the train "soothing".
You will get used to it. So much so, that you'll miss it when its not there.
Case in point: I live on a busy street. It took a few days to get used to the traffic (I know, not as loud as a train). One night, I was cooking dinner and talking in the phone. Something seemed odd, so I looked out the front window. At ~6pm, during peak travel time, there was NO traffic! I caught a glimpse of flashing lights at the next cross street, so I went out to see WTF was going on. Half a block up the road, there was a head-on collision. The silence of no traffic was eerie.
My last house I heard ambulance sirens like every 1/2 hour, I thought it was the most accident prone neighborhood. Till the (ex)wife said "you do know there's a hospital around the corner?" I did get used to it eventually. EDIT- i also sleep with a fan 365/yr which helps with white noise.
a 1/4 mile away? Yeah.. you'll get used to it. I have the Amtrak Northeast Corridor line a little closer than that away from me... with the Acela running past at about 70 mph.
The trains are nowhere near as annoying as the berking straight-pipe Harley's going down my street at 2 am when the local bars close... or the organ-donors on crotch-rockets racing up and down I-95 a mile or so away at 4 in the morning.
My windows are NEVER open at night... I'm thankful my house has central air...
See I love having the windows open, especially when it's 50* out. Looks like I will have to slowly get to that level though. I appreciate the help, I thought the sky was falling after that first night.
Yeah don't worry too much. You will get used to it. Especially if it's a 1/4 mile away.
As fate would have it, after ten berkeleying years in this house, i heard a goddamned train at 6:00 this morning. WTF!?
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