# Does Anyone Else Miss Trains? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-miss-trains/322647 "2005-09-21T02:51:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Green\_Means\_Go](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Green\_Means\_Go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Means_Go)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-miss-trains/322647/21 "2005-09-21T19:28:44Z")
When I was a kid, I had a buddy who was absolutely gonzo-nuts about trains! I vividly remember peddling our bikes as fast as we could down to the tracks when we heard a whistle blow so we could stand there and watch and listen as they rumbled by. I’d love to be able to drive (is that the right word?) a train… sitting up in that big engine watching everything laid out in front of you. Because the tracks go places streets don’t in town, you could see the city in a whole new way. And out in the countryside would be even cooler I’d imagine. Yeah, I need me a train. And a spaceship. And my own Jet. Man… I better get a second job… ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-miss-trains/322647/22 "2005-09-21T21:45:05Z")
> [@seosamh](#): > > … > Our trains tend to crash rather less frequently than yours… Is this observation based on reliable statistics or anecdotal recollections of news stories? ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-miss-trains/322647/23 "2005-09-21T23:15:35Z")
I love the sound of a train whistle in the still of the night. It just seems so right somehow. I could always hear one in the distance in the little town where I grew up and I like that there are tracks less than a mile away from where I live now so I can still hear it. Maybe it’s genetic. My grandfather was an engineer on the L & N line and my mother used to ride along sometimes when she was a little girl. My great grandfather, unfortunately, got caught between cars in the railyard. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-miss-trains/322647/24 "2005-09-21T23:51:49Z")
I always love the faint sound of a train whistle off in the distance, it’s so haunting and elusive for me. Riding a train has always had a little bit of magic left over from being a kid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-miss-trains/322647.md?page=1)