If you live in a neighborhood near a train track...

Train tracks are near us...they run behind our development. After we had lived here several years a train derailed just barely past the last house in our development. We were out of our homes for 4 days and nights while they cleaned it up. If I had my choice I would not move this close to train tracks again.

I love the train. But I've listened to it for almost 20 years, I'd miss it if we moved. It goes by during the day and night. We have 3 grain elevators and 2 other busniesses that need the train.
The horn is supposed to be long short short which some blow as lllllloooooonnnnnnnggggggggg sssshhhooorrrttt ssshhhooorrrttt, haha! It's 2 am and you're passing through a village of 500 people even at 2 pm no one is going to be crossing that road. If the windows are open and the wind is in the right direction I can smell the exhaust in the house.
You hear it but you don't. Just like our clock that chimes on the quarter hour. Sometime you notice most the time you don't.

I live close enough to see people on the train, lol I love it! ours is a commuter rail and probably passes 15 times a day/night. at night they don't blow the horn (I am very close to the station)I can't recall it ever waking me up at night

if it was every couple minutes that might bother me but I really like it now. we are moving soon and the trains will be something I miss

When we go on vacation and stay at FIL's place, it's like 1 block from the train tracks.... at least once a night, it shakes the walls! After a day or two, we get used to it and don't even hear it. But then again, the most we've ever stayed was 10 days. I don't know if I'd like it on a permanent basis. But like I said, after a night or two, we don't even hear it (at least in the middle of the night!)

We lived less than a mile away from a train track and the train went through town at 3 in the morning and once in the afternoon. It had to bliw a warning as it was going through town so it took a while to get used to the noise. We lived there for three years and it would still sometimes wake me up, even after all that time. If I was on the phone with someone in the afternoon when it went past, I couldn't hear what the person was saying because the train was so loud.

You will find that you never hear the train--your subconscious just blocks it out.

When we first moved in last summer we were shocked by the train noise. We had visited the house several times, for extended periods of time, different days, different times, etc and never noticed train noise. Then we moved in and couldn't believe we'd missed it! When we're outside and a train is going by, you really have to raise your voices to be heard. But inside the house it isn't so bad. I actually just heard a whistle while typing this . Sometimes the trains do rattle the windows too. But it's come to be comfortable to me. I like when I hear them passing in the night. They don't wake me up, but I wake up several times in the night on my own - sigh.

Luckily, there are two ways out of our neighborhood. In one direction there's a tunnel that runs under the tracks. In the other direction, there's a RR crossing. So when I leave the house, if I hear the train, I know to go the tunnel way. It would get frustrating having to wait for them to leave the neighborhood. I did have to wait for one one day when going to pick my kids up from school - that stressed me out a bit, but I wasn't noticeably late.

I think going to the neighborhood to see how loud they are really won't tell you how you'll feel about them in the long run. In the beginning, we felt like if we'd known how loud they were we wouldn't have bought the house. But now, almost a year later, it's really not an issue.

When I was a kid, we lived near train tracks. My g-ma lived on the other side of them. There was a small river that ran between her house and the tracks. I loved laying in bed at night (at g-ma's) listening to the sounds of the river and the trains, when they came by. The river was small enough that the sound of the wheels on the rails was audible.

Honestly, I think it probably has something to do with my hearing nothing when I sleep. My husband didn't believe me when I told him how sound I sleep. He picked me up a couple of times on our honeymoon, while I was sleeping. Didn't wake me and I had no clue he had done it.

Train tracks run several directions through the small town that I grew up in and I never noticed them unless one derailed because that is really loud. Then I moved to within a mile of an airport and never ears the planes unless the president landed there and the black hawks would circle which made the house shake. Now we're back in the small town where I can hear the band play at football games on the other side of the closest track but I still can't hear the trains. It did take a week or 2 to get used to but I obviously just tune them out.

It never bothers me.  I am so use to it that I seldom hear it. 

We lived in a townhouse that was a stone's throw from a track. I seriously don't know how it was legal to build a house that close. After a few days I didn't even hear it.

I lived across from the railroad tracks for 5 years. The trains going by didn't bother me. I would not buy a house next to the tracks because selling it could be difficult. I know the houses near the tracks go for significantly less than comparable homes.

I will say that living across from the rail yard was problematic. They put the train cars together after midnight. The crashing shook the whole building.

train tracks are about a mile from our house (that is travel distance, straight line probably about a half mile) - and I like hearing the sound of the train whistle in the night (and day) it is kind of an "all is ok with the world" sound to me....and the trains come through at least 2x an hour - during the day about every 20 min. We really only hear it if the windows are open.