'It was getting to me:' Train left idling for days near South Portland homes



For days, a train has been driving a South Portland woman up the wall.

She’s lived by the tracks for decades, but that’s not the problem.

Her issue has been a train sitting there idling, she says, for more than 48 hours.

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39 thoughts on “'It was getting to me:' Train left idling for days near South Portland homes”

  1. So they have to park exactly in that spot and why. Why do they use this area for charging. I think the engines are running to charge the batteries. Diesel electric engines.

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  2. I too live by train tracks and never was really bothered by trains passing by and shaking my house gently. It wasnt until the past few years they've started to stop and idle for hours or even days to a week. When trains idle, they let out some of the lowest vibrations that can be felt in your soul and no earplugs will stop it, no sound can drown it out. It's easy for people to say ignorant things when you've never been put into a bad situation like this lady. You're house is longer a home where you can unwind and shed the stresses of the day, but instead you have to listen to and feel the tormenting bass coming from a train. Its like having a neighbor that blasts bassy music all hours of the day and night. Moving is easier said than done in this current economy.

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  3. This is a job for Ella musk.
    To make electric trains. Quieter And to put bridges in, so I'm not late to work.
    Or better yet? Why don't they pay me for the time?
    I wait for the train time is money.

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  4. I would find out who the licensing agent for the company is and ring his phone off the hook if you can get his cellphone number too and ring it off the hook too. They don't like that and will get the train moved you just got to call the right number long enough.

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  5. In cold weather if a locomotive is shuy down it can be impossible to restart it. I onbe quoted heaters for a MKT shop in southern Kansas. They had locomotives shut down in the cold of winter and then could not restart them. They had to borrow power from larger railroads which left them heavily owing to pool power.

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  6. COLD STARTS ARE EXTREMELY HARD ON THOSE TYPES OF ENGINE'S. AND KEEPING THE AIR PRESSURE UP,,,, INTERIOR ELECTRICAL COMPONENT DRY,,, DISPATCH FOR IMMEDIATE BACK UP WORK,, IT'S COST EFFECTIVE TO LEAVE A DECADED ENGINE RUNNING. MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS COSTS ARE $1000'S OF DOLLARS PER HOUR .

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  7. I had this problem in Enfield, Maine. I wrote a letter to the owners and asked what the purpose of having a train idle in a rural area for days to a week or more at a time and for several years in a row! I implied it was perhaps for drug dealers. The train never returned to sit and idle in Enfield, Maine. Coincidence?

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  8. Nothing worse than people who move near railroad tracks or an airport and then they feel they are entitled to complain about the noise or the problems associated with being there. Shut up. You moved there knowingly so you put yourself in that situation.

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