I live about a mile from the New Jersey Zinc Company plant here in Palmerton, Pa, and every now again I can hear the horn from the Chestnut Ridge Railway diesels doing shunting. About 4 miles from here is the NS line which runs along the Lehigh River through the Lehigh Gap. Since it's the main way out of town, we all drive past it almost every day.
Oakmont, Pa.
In my back yard is the Bessemer and Lake Erie " CN " that brings in loads of ore at around 7:00 at night and takes the empties back after a reverse around. Lots of tunnel motor rumbling up the grade across the Allegheny river bridge.
In town we have The Allegheny Valley Railroad a short line from Pitsburgh to Arnold Pa. Shifting plastic pellets in hoppers to Daily's Juice and Chelsea Building products and Corn syrup to Daily's for use in Huggies drinks. They run at dusk and return to Pittsburgh about two hours later.
Across the Allegheny River " about 10 town block from my house is the Norfolk Southern single track Mainline Pittsburgh Division? There are several crossings along the right of way and I can tell what town the train is passing through by the loudness.
Wow!!Guys thanks for your replys.Turns out there are alot more people than I expected.There a town called harrisberg just outside charottle n.c.Used to help my granddad with scrapiron.We would go to a scrapyard.Ns runs through harrisberg on this line ns runs fast freights.There a banked curves were the train leans into it.The last time I went to harrisberg.There are now houses very closse to the tracks.I know they get shaken up pretty good.
Harrisburg, NC is one of my favorite spots to shoot NS around Charlotte 
one of those banked curves -
Live just about a block away from a branch of the Winchester & Western that runs through South Jersey. When the foliage is down in the winter, I can see the trains run from my front door. The whistle and trains rumbling by are soothing sounds to my ears.
I live near the Colma BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Station and can sometimes hear air horns when passenger cars are being switched there.
You might say that I am immersed in trains.
The NS (former Reading mainline) passes through Hummelstown, PA. That's roughly a 1.5 miles from my house. Middletown, about 3 miles to the south, is now an Amtrak station on the former Pennsy mainline. A tourist railroad, the Middletown & Hummelstown (aka the Milk & Honey) runs about 700 yards behind my house on the other side of Swatara Creek (used to interchange between the Reading & PRR).
Oh yeah, at work in downtown Harrisburg, I park in a garage next to the NS tracks and walk past Harris Tower to my building. About 50 trains a day go through there.
Trains? I don't think I can get away from them 24x7. 
Not that I want to. 
George
NJT Fanwood station is 1/2 mile from the house. I have to cross the conrail shared line in south plainfield every day and the port reading line as well. Work is 2 miles from the NEC. Trains are an every day event.
*SOB*...You've hit a nerve. I live in the ONLY county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania without an inch of operating railroad track. BUT...my house is up for sale!
4 Days a week I work & live on a ferryboat in New London, CT. We dock opposite the train station so I see the Acellas, the Amtrak Northeast Directs, the P & W freight & occasionally Central Vermont RR. The Amtrak work trains always go thru between midnight & 5:00AM. There are 2 RR crossings at each end of our property so we are inundated with crossing signals 24 hours a days. You get use to it at night. I don't mind it at all but my crew gets a little annoyed.
The East Penn Railroad goes right through town. It operates on the Octoraro branch of the former PRR. The tracks are currently owned by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) and operated by Regional Rail, LLC.
Here are some pictures and a video:
Getting ready to upgrade.
Not too far from the Northeast Corridor either.
Santa arrives!!
I can hear them from the house. I live about 2 miles away from the ex C&NW (now UP) 400 Route. Not a lot of traffic these days. Five days a week 2 triple crowns (one east one west). Three times a week, coal to the local power plant. A couple times a week, the Minnesota Commercial uses the line to serve the local industries, including Anderson Windows. Then about half a dozen odd freights per week.
We might get more traffic when they finish upgrading the line to welded rail. The jointed stuff is about 60 years old and in terrible condition. The rail train came through and dumped the "steel spaghetti" a while ago. Just waiting for the crew to come through and install it. I hope they don't do it when I'm gone in September, I love to watch.
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