Shippers & Receivers near railroad tracks

When it's not running and you still hear it is when i worry..

 

Hauling sand you get used to a lot of noise ! Like the pumps at the well and train cars moving at the yard. man I miss that.

 

I went to unload at this place in califorina, cant rember the name of the place , but i was as the other's was park tight agaisnt the docks waiting too unload,in my cabover, i then noticed all this warning signs about the railroad, well i didnt think too much about it except like 7 feet off my front bumper was a railroad track that goes thru the place, pretty soon comes a side car and the men threw red flares off the car, i thought that was strange, then about a few mins latter comes a swicthing engine with cars blowing it horn,well that one rig, musta been sleeping cause that train didnt stop and took off his front, i guess the dock was made for cab overs, wasnt a pretty site, but they had signs and warnings going,

 

Tyson in Joslin, IL right of of I-88... omg, you can't sleep with the windows down or its going to be a long night... the #### waiting lot is literally 5 feet away from the tracks and the crossing... when i two long UP coal and intermoadal trains came through in the first 20 mins i knew it was going to be a long night...

 

I grew up a mile from a railroad yard and trains were a background noise to us. But if I have to stop over anywhere within 5 miles of an airport those jets keep me awake - almost as if I were parked on the runway! Like the T/A in Florence, KY. the jets fly right over it at night.

 

Trains don't wake me up after years of living near tracks.
Truck engines, reefers, air horns, even jake brakes don't do it.

But a small gasoline engine nearby?

*wakes up*
"What's he doing in the truck lot?"

 

MBM in Rocky Mount, NC has overnight parking right beside a Amtrak railway. The first night I parked right beside the fence not knowing about the track, about 3am the train blew by going at least 50 m.p.h. It definitely woke me up and I looked out and that train was right on the other side of that fence probably not 20 feet from my truck.

 

I load at a load of bean plants, generally right next to active train tracks. Couple of the ones we do in Nebraska are alongside BNSF mainlines. Try to take a nap during a 3 hr live load with 5 or 6 trains an hr going past. You get used to it.

 

Joslin, that's it. I remember a Schaffer driver kept pestering the guard shack about his load there one night and being an ####### so the guard "lost" his paperwork for a few hours after his load was ready.