Another Sleepless Night...

I hear the train a comin', It's rolling 'round the bend.... and it's loud blasted whistle/horn is always waking me up or keeping me from going to sleep!  Seriously, I've lived near trains before, and I've never had it this bad. I mean, I lived in a mobile home park in Utah, where the tracks ran less than half a football field away. Yeah, they were so close to my trailer, Steve Young could have thrown a football and hit a passing train. As it approached a crossing, it would give 4 short toots of it's horn, and 2 long ones.  Not like you needed them, the floor was already shaking like San Francisco.  Several times a day, every day, I would pray that the choo-choo, chug-chug, clickity-clack, rackity-racket vibrations of the passing Union Pacific wouldn't knock the walls down.

But that wasn't as bad as this train and it's whistle-blowing engineer!  We live close to a mile from the tracks, and from any at-grade crossing, but I hear him coming.  With the windows shut.  With the TV and fan on. Probably if I was wearing earplugs I'd hear him coming!  I have deaf friends, and even they would hear this train! Now I understand the need for warning -"hey, you - dude parked on the train tracks, get out of the way!"  Or even, "hey moron, you may think your car is fast but you will not beat me to the crossing!"  But this train is blowing his whistle constantly for his entire trip through Harlingen.  At 2AM!  What is the point of waking an entire neighborhood just because you have a fascination with blowing your horn???  Now he's got me singing:

I've been working on the railroad
All the live-long day
I've been working on the railroad Just to pass the time away.
Can't you hear the whistle blowiung,
Rise up so early in the morn;
Can't you hear the captain shouting
"Dinah, blow your horn!"  

Dinah won't you blow,
Dinah won't you blow,
Dinah won't you blow your horn?