TA Gallup, New Mexico

i am deaf or a good sleeper or both
maybe just being a reefer driver
i sleep thru all that stuff

 

So rail road companies have "no horn" restricted areas for residential but they will allow it behind a truck stop? Go figure

 

I've slept there plenty of times. It must of been just that night you were there, it usually only passes one time every time I've been there. And no horn.

 

Well, the RR tracks were there about 100 years before the truck stop. That is the BNSF Transcon Line, one of the busiest RR lines in the US. I have never seemed to have a problem sleeping there. Guess i just don't notice the horns.

 

Well I've stayed there before an I'm probably gonna get hammered for saying this but there's some weird folks in Gallup New Mexico. I felt like the hills had eyes. Lol

 

Neighborhoods pop up around train tracks...but they can get a 'no horn' variance...

But what ever you do...don't use your jake brake in town...they are too loud....but that horn is so much quieter I guess.

 

The Love's in Clovis, NM has a similar problem if you ever find yourself in that area. The tracks are across a 4 lane highway...but in town there is a big rail yard so the train traffic past the Love's is all night long, and there is a R/R crossing for a side road directly across the street from the truck stop.

 

The answer is simple; park next to an old long nose Pete. You'll never hear the train horn...