Sounds I love from long ago
By Marsha
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
Midland, Michigan
June 9, 2020 6:51am CST
One sound I don't hear much anymore is the sounds of a train in the distance. The only trains that still come through our town is probably for for chemical mostly although we do have new factories here now too.
I was going to try to capture the sounds with my phone but it's no longer blowing it's horn. Maybe in a bit.
I heard trains a lot when growing up and would enjoy listening to The beeping of the horns mostly when I was supposed to be sleeping.
I can hear the rumble in the distance, can you? And then there's the horn. It's almost at the end and barely heard at least with my phone. Maybe your computers can up the sound a bit more to hear it better.
Most of the train tracks have been removed here but a few are left.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 Jun 20
My friend lives at the tip of the county to the North, and I live at the tip of the county to the South. The tracks near us are no longer in operation, but hers are. When I'm at her house, we can hear them, but of course they are not passenger trains. We do not have a train station in our county anymore.
I love the sound of trains.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
9 Jun 20
@MarshaMusselman We can go to the next county over to get on a train, but to my knowledge, the three other counties surrounding us do not have a passenger train station either. It's a pity, I think more train stations should open up for passengers again. I know there's a movement of people trying to get high speed rail for more of the country.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
11 Jun 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I've not heard of that movement and it may not be feasible in Michigan since we're almost completely surrounded by water. Unless it were to run North to south. Not everyone wants to go to the upper peninsula but some might be willing for a short cut to Wisconsin.
Although I doubt there's enough land to our in rails but what do I know?
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
9 Jun 20
Ours aren't passenger trains either. To my knowledge the closest one we had even when I was younger was around the thumb of Michigan, two hours away. But there were many more freight trains in the area.
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@mom210 (9170)
• United States
10 Jun 20
@MarshaMusselman I think all freight, we have several car factories and warehouses here. every half hour. Every Easter Sunday we have to wait for the train to go by, during our sunrise services.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
10 Jun 20
@mom210 even though a few do cross some roads I've not had to wait much at all if at all in recent years
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
10 Jun 20
Are they mostly freight trains, Kimberly, it ate they passenger trains too? Heck, I don't even know if passenger trains still run anywhere or not.
I rode one back in the seventies for French class two different years. We went to Montreal and the next year to Quebec.
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@m_audrey6788 (58468)
• Germany
9 Jun 20
I don`t like the noise froma a train. I can`t relax if I hear it. Do you really like hearing it? 
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
9 Jun 20
Yes. But I've never lived in an area where there were a lot moving back and forth. I'm sure some dislike them very much.
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@m_audrey6788 (58468)
• Germany
9 Jun 20
@MarshaMusselman I never lived nearby but the sound of it really makes me feel bad 
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
9 Jun 20
@m_audrey6788 I wonder why?
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
19 Oct 20
@MarshaMusselman , I don't really know why I fee sad for that reason
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
10 Jun 20
Do you know why you feel sad, Marlina? Maybe it brings up memories but sadnesses comes too?
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
19 Oct 20
@marlina I does have a forlorn sounds to it.
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@LadyDuck (502190)
• Italy
10 Jun 20
@MarshaMusselman Our apartment was close to the sea, during the summer nights we heard the waves from the windows of our bedroom.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
10 Jun 20
I would miss waves too even though I've never lived near a any water that had waves I've...
I just remembered I lived in CT one year and out house was too blocks from the sound but I couldn't hear the waves until we were on the beach. I do miss that beach though and that was back in the early eighties.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
10 Jun 20
@LadyDuck that sounds nice. If love to have a place on the water.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
9 Jun 20
You reminded me of my mother's house..we still hear the sound of trains so much there.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
10 Jun 20
Do you like the sounds? I'm guessing if you and your mom got along the answer would be yes?
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
10 Jun 20
@MarshaMusselman yes....I miss those sounds so much..i.heard them my whole childhood
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
10 Jun 20
That's how I feel too. When I hear the noises it makes even that far in the distance it takes me back to trying to sleep in my parents bed probably when they had people over. Our bedroom was closest to the main ares of the house.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
10 Jun 20
I think that is the general consensus here. The sounds wouldn't sooth me to sleep unless it was ongoing I guess it might but I do enjoy it and the memories it brings back to me.
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@Lavanya15 (12888)
• Chennai, India
9 Jun 20
Those train sounds I don't like that's much.. Hope now we get relief from those.. Have a nice day.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
10 Jun 20
You meant to say rain not train, right? It's raining too much where you live? Rain sounds can be soothing too but not when the ground is saturated already.
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@Lavanya15 (12888)
• Chennai, India
10 Jun 20
@MarshaMusselman yes by mistake it occurred, I edit it now. Thanks for informing.
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