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ashkats
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crystal falls, Michigan, US
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here comes the train
1 am and here it comes heading north and blowing the horn all the way though town going to tomahawk it will be back in 3 hrs heading south doing the same thing...wonder why i cant sleep at night
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| July 22, 2010, 06:16 |
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Re: here comes the train
Don't have any running trains around here anymore. It's kind of pleasant to hear the trains run at night when they're a distant off...but not so much when you're living close enough to have things rattling off the walls and tables every time they pass!
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| July 22, 2010, 11:15 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: here comes the train
you are lucky, I'm a stones throw from the tracks and it rattles the whole place.i don't remember it being like this 20 years ago when we move west for for my job, there was a yard switcher that ran back and forth from the paper mill,tooting its little horn over to the yard and the feed mill and potato ware house,then the main freight would come thru at eleven...then i had one more hour of the factory and the punch press going kerchunck kerchunk till midnight. but dont get me wrong i aways liked trains
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| July 22, 2010, 17:07 |
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Re: here comes the train
I like 'em too....but hell no, not that close!
The old tracks around here haven't seen a train in decades.
They use to haul all the clay from the mines up to the city for the refractories.
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| July 22, 2010, 20:15 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: here comes the train
for us most of the sawmills are gone and the old pine lines are going too, sawmills replaced by window and door factory's,hurds got chains on the gates still got Lincoln wood...remember Lincoln logs ? lol them were the old days when they open the Cosmo dam and drain the pond ya can see the river from the old days when Merrill was called jenny, the rock piles were they sorted logs on their way to the sawmills down river all the way down to the Mississippi to be come log rafts to be push by steamboats and compete with the trains... behold the power of steam...we lost something i think
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| July 24, 2010, 02:18 |
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wantubad2
54 / male
white creek, New York, US
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Re: here comes the train
I have felt your pain in the past..I lived in a place that had tracks on the other side of the drivway,,when they went past it made your brain rattle.I lived there for several years before I bought my home here I can still hear a train in the distance on occasion,but as chazzy says it is pleasent to hear from so far off.
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| July 24, 2010, 09:37 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: here comes the train
these are modern trains though diesel generated electric motors screaming by with their two tone horns i grew up along the $oo line tracks and they became Wis-Central and now Canadian national.the old ones like soo lines old smokie #5 is no retired in ladysmith under a roof in a chain link cage with pigeons shitting all over it.
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| July 24, 2010, 19:21 |
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