<< why don't you go camp out on the tracks one nite, and see if its a real train thats been passing by. >>
Yeah I was thinking the next time I hear them I could drive/walk out there and see if the sound got any louder. It's really close by, I live right across the street from a park and the tracks are right behind the park. It's only a couple hundred feet away.
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I know for a fact it's not a real train. All of the tracks were physically removed several years ago. :Q That's why it's kind of spooky, it's just an empty strip of dirt now.
When I first moved to this area like 15 years ago, there were still physical tracks there and trains did use them, but they were later removed and now big six lane streets cross where the railroads use to be.