We love our old house, large (one-acre) garden, and four small outbuildings, as well as our neighbors, the horse ranch, adjoining hayfields, and big barns. It's a lovely setting. But it takes some getting used to the trains that travel along the single rail line just below our house. A freight train typically goes by the house twice a day, once in the morning, just past 9, returning in the afternoon, about 3. The freight train is often long and noisy. The heavier ones can cause the house to shake a bit. The most piercing sound is the train's engineer tooting the horn 3-4 times as it approaches an ungated railway crossing just west of our house. While the freight train runs daily, the passenger train runs only three days a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), but it passes by our house in the early morning hours, the first one about 2:30 with a second train about 3:30. If you're wondering about its route, the passenger train travels between Halifax, Nova Scotia and Montreal with many stops along the way. I don't know where the freight trains originate and end but it's kind of fun to watch the kinds of cargo they carry.
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Unknown cargo on train running by our house
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Train crossing road road just west of our house
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