Many find them romantic, even comforting.

Others have a different opinion.

The sound of trains heading down the tracks, the whistles that harken back to the days when the locomotive was king of our nation’s transportation system evoke different emotions depending upon whom you ask.

Some people enjoy the sounds. Others don’t mind them. There are even those have grown so used to the rumbles and blasts they may not even notice them.

But for some in our community, the sounds of the railroad are nothing but noise—noise that they say interferes with th...

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