When I first moved into my apartment, I was jarred by the train horns blowing at any hour of the day - the tracks run one property behind my apartment complex, and cross my street at the end of the block. There would be a night when three trains would pass after midnight, and then there'd be a stretch of days on end when I would not hear a single one. It was irksome at first, and I would wake up every time one blew.

It quickly moved from annoying to pleasing. Growing up, I would hear the train whistles from several blocks away, muted by the night. It became a fun game, and led to me exclaiming "Traaaain!" I even did this a few times after being woken by one at four A.M.

Alas, the city has once again made it so that trains cannot blow their whistles in residential areas. This means no more happy exclamations of trains come to rumble by. Sad.