This topic has already been discussed many times.............Into the ground !...............Blah Blah Blah.................... the trains where here first...........if it bothers you so Mr Olsen then why don't you move the hell out of Tehachapi....................Damn I am tired of crybabies............

I had to laugh too when I saw this article.  If you don't like trains why would you CHOOSE to buy or rent a house within 5 miles of a train track?  It's like buying near an airport then complaining about the noise!  Don't people have brains anymore?

Too bad the comments option was not available on this article--we bloggers would have had fun!  But maybe that's why the comment option is not available anymore.  : )

Gube--I just clicked on your profile and do you realize you are world famous?  Your blogs have been viewed an astonishing 21,000 times and your profile almost 2000 times!

Now Gube and Awsmom8,  let's let the cat out of the bag and tell these people the truth about the trains.   We all know that those noisy old trains hide in the depot until people sign rental agreements or buy property.  I've personally seen these trains peeking out the windows with their little cowcatchers smirking evilly and their little smokestacks about to blow up from holding in the pressure.    Their tracks are confused with cattle guards,  the crossing arms are thought to be some backwoods traffic lights---- and---  Oh, My!    Doesn't the depot itself look like some quaint little barn?   Well, maybe I personally DON'T see the trains peeking out the depot windows,  but in my mind, they are there each time I read about the train noise and the fact that others haven't noticed the trains until they get moved in. 

I laugh about it, too--next the mountains will have to go--they're blocking the view!  LOL   

Well Maggie, while we are on the subject I say let's ban sunsets.  I hate driving out the 202 when the sun sets as it causes me not to see well because of the sun.  But you might be on to something--if we moved the mountains toward the end of the 202 it would create shade so the sun doesn't blind you!

Which came first? The train track or the houses?

Maggie very true and very funny............................Yes mom the sunsets must go along with these damn birds that chirp and chirp and makes all that noise........the birds must go !

What about those darn wild flowers? I'd much rather hear the horn, than read a very sad obituary. I heard a story about an engineer that would blow like crazy through Tehachapi, because his mother-in-law lived by the tracks. Ha, I've also heard each engineer has their own style,toot, whatever. I surely don't mind any of those, but there is that one, right around 3ish..am. I swear he starts in Keene & doesn't stop until Mohave, I wish he liked his Mom-in- law. 

And those stupid ground squirrels that chirp!  I have one that chirps nonstop.  I can tell when he is sleeping because it is suddenly quiet.  But not for long!  I think he is paranoid OCD--maybe I'll put some meds in his H2O!

awsmom if you have problems with squirrels let me know and I'll send over my Boyz along with their guns and they shoot that damn squirrel for you.....................It would be my pleasure............

There's a reason why new Federal regulations limit the volume of train horns to 110 db and there's a reason why towns are provided an avenue to regulate train horns, which is all Mr. Olsen is suggesting we follow - same as Bakersfield did.  

But we're dumber than Bakersfield, obviously.  Trains have been putting out 140 and even 150 db - about the same as a jet engine.   Is there NO limit to how obnoxious your beloved trains can get? How loud do they have to be to be heard?

And awsmom - since when does "I was here first" rule apply to anything more important than your seat at the Hitching Post?  Does the first person in the neighborhood get to have his parties as loud as he wants?

"There has got to be a better answer."  Yes, move.

Hey PD were not talking about obnoxious neighbors here...we're talking about trains that were here a hell of long time ago and obnoxious squirrels and birds and mountains and sunsets.  Get with the picture and stay on "track".  LOL 

Actually, awsmom was justifying obnoxious behaviour on the grounds that the obnoxious actor was on the scene first.  I don't think that normally counts for much, hence my question.  Its a general one, not necessarily related only to trains....

Lets move the conversation along, shall we?  No need to re-run all the things we said before.

You state you’ve lived here a few years, how many I have no idea, but did you not do your homework regarding Tehachapi BEFORE you moved here? It IS a train town and has been for well over 100 years. Why did you move here if you didn’t want to hear the whistles.

You ask if the city leaders are doing anything to address this quality of life issue. For some folks here the “quality of life issue” is  the new people that move here and immediately start complaining about OUR way of life, OUR town, etc. and want it changed to have it "their" way.  If you didn’t want to hear train whistles, you shouldn’t have moved here. Trains and Tehachapi are synonymous.

For the last 21 years I have lived within 3 blocks of the tracks and right by a crossing. And yes, there are some engineers that seem to take delight in laying on the whistle all the way through town, but that doesn’t happen ALL the time. Prior to living in town I lived in the unspoiled Cummings Valley for 14 years, and on a quiet night, I could hear the whistles all the way out there.

I’m sure that somewhere in this train town, you can likely find some earplugs.

The only thing that needs to move on here is that people need to get over their complaining and have a life!  As soon as the whiners get the railroad to cut down on their whistle blowing, someone is gonna get hit and killed, then everyone will be up in arms about why there wasn't enough warning from the train!  Wah, Wah!!!