I Love the Sound of a Night Train
By Diana B.
@BloggerDi (3119)
United States
November 30, 2018 12:10am CST
I just love the sound of a train whistle in the distance, especially at night.
I don't know why, exactly. To me, it's a mysterious yet peaceful sound.
The mysterious feeling I get might be because I've never ridden a train. I'd like to experience it though! Also, I wonder where the train has been and where it might be going, when I hear its whistle in the wee hours of the morning.
Maybe I've seen too many romantic/adventure movies with train scenes, which trigger my emotions when I'm lying in bed, hearing the familiar sound.
Do you hear trains often? If so, what do you think about them?
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@responsiveme (22924)
• India
3 Jan 19
I travel a lot by train. While during the day the train sounds are dimmed by other traffic, I do get to hear the whistle blow in the night.
Because it is far it doesn't really disturb my sleep and So like it
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@responsiveme (22924)
• India
3 Jan 19
@BloggerDi at times I wish it would carry me too the people I love
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@BloggerDi (3119)
• United States
3 Jan 19
@responsiveme 
It's difficult to be separated from loved ones.
It's difficult to be separated from loved ones.1 person likes this
Thanks much 
@BloggerDi (3119)
• United States
2 Dec 18
I'm glad you like it @Courage7. It's sweet that you have that in common with your late mother. 
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@BloggerDi (3119)
• United States
2 Dec 18
@Courage7 My mom did the same for me! She passed 20 years ago. There are so many things I appreciate about the things she taught me.
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@Courage7 (19633)
• United States
2 Dec 18
@BloggerDi Thanks Diana. She instilled a love of a lot of things in me.
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@maximax8 (31043)
• United Kingdom
1 Dec 18
I love the sound of trains in the day and in the night. There is a charming sound of a steam train. On my foreign travels I sometimes get to sleep on a train. With my children this February we slept on a train from Mumbai to Nagpur and from Nagpur to Chennai. I have slept on European trains and the funny experience was in the Ukraine in 2013. We came from a first class day journey across the Ukraine and we changed onto a third class night journey. It was like a dorm on wheels. The train was going to Moldova. It was amusing when the immigration man came. He loved seeing your passports. Being English we really stood out. Old trains sound nicer than modern trains.
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@BloggerDi (3119)
• United States
1 Dec 18
I love your short story about your train travels @maximax8! I learned a few new things here. Thanks for sharing!
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@maximax8 (31043)
• United Kingdom
2 Dec 18
@BloggerDi My first experience of Inter Rail was in 1990. I had to have a visa to visit Hungary in those days. I had been working for a family in Finland and I took a train pass to come home. It was amazing to take a train over the arctic circle to visit a northern city in Norway. The weather up there was very cold. I loved taking all the trains around lovely Europe.
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@maximax8 (31043)
• United Kingdom
14 Dec 18
@enlightenedpsych2 Feeling like the steam train is in your living room must feel too noisy and bothersome. Poor JJ. I totally understand. Our trains are not as annoying.
@marlina (154115)
• Canada
30 Nov 18
@BloggerDi All the time for me, if it is at night.
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@BloggerDi (3119)
• United States
30 Nov 18
Thanks @marlina. The sound affects that way too sometimes.
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@Tampa_girl7 (53544)
• United States
16 Dec 18
Yes, we can hear the train in the distance.
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@xFiacre (14388)
• Ireland
14 Dec 18
@bloggerdi Now you’ve got my engine steaming. There is no other sound more likely to unsettle me and awaken a great yearning within. I used to live near marshalling yards where big old steam trains shunted and whistled about the place. And then in India riding big trains through the night, the shrill call of their whistles - just magic.
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@BloggerDi (3119)
• United States
14 Dec 18
I love your way with words @xFiacre! Thanks for sharing about your experiences with trains. Magical indeed.
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@1creekgirl (44171)
• United States
30 Nov 18
I seldom hear them anymore, but it's always been a lonesome sound to me.
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@BloggerDi (3119)
• United States
30 Nov 18
It can sound lonesome to me too, depending on my mood. Thanks @1creekgirl.
@JamesHxstatic (29411)
• Eugene, Oregon
11 Dec 18
I too love the sound of a train in the distance at night. I also am soooo old that I remember the old train whistles that you hear in 1940s movies. I was lucky to do a lot of train travel as a kid.
Train Sounds contains original recordings from the 1940s and 50s of classic steam and diesel locomotives for rail fans and model railroads.
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@BloggerDi (3119)
• United States
11 Dec 18
Very cool @JamesHxstatic! I loved the video too. Thank you.
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@Plethos (13581)
• United States
30 Nov 18
as a kid growing up , you could hear the train throughout the day and night . night was easier to hear the horn and wheels beating down the rails. now, not so much. theres not much things for the train to move nowadays, it mostly passes in the middle of the night, once every night.
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@BloggerDi (3119)
• United States
30 Nov 18
I hear them in the daytime too occasionally, but I think other noises usually make them more difficult to hear. I hear them several times at night sometimes. Thanks very much @Plethos.
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
30 Nov 18
I ride local trains all the time. They are convenient, much more so than cars, in Tokyo.
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@BloggerDi (3119)
• United States
30 Nov 18
Thank you for sharing your experience there in Japan @petatonicsca.
