Unknown Train Whistle

Digginman · Mar 20, 2009

This happened today at lunch. I was at work. I went upstairs to have lunch with a certain somebody. Nothing special about that. Had the usual, soup, fruit and yogart. This is just your normal office above a manufacturing plant. We build circuit boards. I was washing my bowl in the kitchen when I heard the unmistakeable sound of a train whistle. This wasn't far off. It sounded like it was just outside the building. I thought about it and decided to only say something if someone else did first. I heard one of out engineers call out "Sue, did you hear that"? Sue said she did. I walked out of the kitchen and heard Sharon, the engineer say, "I've been here 28 years and have never heard a train whistle". Several people upstairs heard it. I asked around and couldn't find anyone downstairs that heard it. I talked to a co-worker who lived in the area. She said that Loundoun County hasn't had any trains or tracks in 30 or more years. There is a bike path that cuts thru the county, she said that was where the old tracks were. This is just a few blocks away.

I still have no idea what it was.

DM

Rebel - KGC · Mar 20, 2009

We also have an OLD RR track made into a bike/walking path... BLACKWATER CREEK TRAIL, here in Lynchburg, Va.; the OLD Virginia & Tennessee RR, VERY active, during the Civil War. NO reports of "hauntings", or "phantom" train whistle, tho. My older brother took HIS HS "date" by the RR tracks of Grove Hill bridge in Page County, Va., and they saw a head-light of a train, back in 1958; scared his "date", and he went to the cops... they thought he had been drinking... LOL. It IS possible that residue
"hauntings" of sounds (whistle, etc.), scent/smell (like flowers, etc) "attach" to certain environments. IF... you are chatting about Loundoun County, Va.... THAT doen't suprise me, in that CW trains OFTEN carried wounded "troops" (blue & gray) to "hospital areas"; Lynchburg, Va, was a BIG CSA "hospital area", and we have a CONFEDERATE section, in the OLD CITY CEMENTERY. BOO! "Google" RESIDUAL HAUNTINGS

Digginman · Mar 20, 2009

I know the language, Rebel. To me, it would be a residual type of haunting. Also, there isn't really a science to this. It could happen again tomorrow, or not for a thousand years. I don't think we can wait for it...lol.

DM

Rebel - KGC · Mar 20, 2009

True, DM; it is sorta like a "ripple effect"... and "science" so far, can't explain it. MAY have to look at EASTERN Science, Meta-physics, or something to "explain" it, DUNNO.

$:-\$

Rebel - KGC · Mar 21, 2009

It is getting warmer out; ready to go CAMPING... & TH'ing.

At night, we can gather around da campfire... roast marshmallows, & discuss ESOTERIC COSMOLOGY!

savant365 · Mar 21, 2009

It is very possible that the horn you heard was on a tractor trailer. There are several truckers out there that use them.

Digginman · Mar 21, 2009

savant365 said:
It is very possible that the horn you heard was on a tractor trailer. There are several truckers out there that use them.

Thanks, could be. I think it would have been heard downstairs also. Production wasn't running. Making circuit boards isn't loud, either.

DANGLANGLEY · Mar 21, 2009

Back in the 60's a friend of my dads put a set of train horns on his car and would get behind a car when they neared a rail road crossing and blow the horns when the car would just get onto the tracks. He did it to a local preacher and the preacher just about had a heart attack. He pulled over after he crossed the tracks and just sat there shaking. Dads friend stopped to check on him and admit what he had done and the preacher scolded him very good.

DANGLANGLEY

Rebel - KGC · Mar 21, 2009

LOL THAT would work... ROFL!

diggemall · Mar 23, 2009

The question is; did it sound like a MODERN train whistle, or an old-time STEAM WHISTLE ? (If you're old enough - think Petticoat Junction) They don't sound at all alike. Lots of people set up train air horns on cars and trucks, but a steam whistle just can't be blown without a MASSIVE amount of steam or compressed air.

Diggem'

Rebel - KGC · Mar 24, 2009

A "GHOSTLY" whistle? PROBABLY doesn't matter... :wink:

Digginman · Mar 28, 2009

Diggemall said:
The question is; did it sound like a MODERN train whistle, or an old-time STEAM WHISTLE ? (If you're old enough - think Petticoat Junction) They don't sound at all alike. Lots of people set up train air horns on cars and trucks, but a steam whistle just can't be blown without a MASSIVE amount of steam or compressed air.

Diggem'

Thanks, Diggem'. I hadn't considered that. I asked around at work. I had a couple say it sounded like a modern train and a couple said it sounded like the steam whistle. I guess it's a toss up on that subject. I thought it didn't sound modern, but then again, JMO.

DM

vibes · Apr 2, 2009

I recall reading about a phantom"ghost whistle" in a book titled, Ley Lines and Earth Energies by David Cowan & Chris Arnold.

I highly recommend this book as it relates to dowsing earth energy lines (you've been warned in advance

) and why some places feel special.