Living beside the railway

[allurban]

let me help get back to the thread ... for 16 years I lived near Lambton Park in Toronto, just east of the Humber River, north of Dundas St., but south of the CP rail tracks. I spent much of my childhood around trains - CP freights and Milton line trains.

If I was not sitting on a hill near my house watching them, or trying to 'race' them on my bike, I was lying in bed at night feeling comforted by the rumbling of the trains.

15 years ago we moved to Mississauga - still living on Dundas St., but the CP rail tracks are now 2 km to the north.

But on a quiet clear night, I can still hear the freight trains moving.

Cheers, m

ps. my friends who live in Mississauga with the rail lines behind their house managed to develop great pitching arms from throwing crab apples (from their tree) at the freights.

[Filip]

I live about 100 meters south from the Lakeshore West line. Usually you don't hear them from my house, but the worst are when those things toot their horn at 3am.. Damn near gives me an aneurysm.

[AndrewJM3D]

Usually they do that if somebody is on the track. It could be worse you could live near a ferry dock.