http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/garden/18houses.html?no_interstitial
Somebody here should buy this house. Come to think of it if she took out a ad in the back of Trains somebody would buy it and turn into a railfan Bed & Breakfast.
The owner apparently doesn’t mind the one or two trains a day, which would make it kind of a bust as a railfan hangout.
Fixed the link, too.
Exactly as I said on the “Planning for Retirement” (or similar) thread here a month or two ago - a house at a price reduction like that is one way to make your retirement dollars go much farther. Plus, a non-railfan spouse might tolerate a train or 2 a day - but not the 20 or 50 that some of us would like. (I used to rent the lower part of a twin in Malvern, PA that backed up to the Amtrak/ ConRail/ SEPTA main line. Taking out the slack from a stopped freight at 2:00 AM didn’t bother me much - but it did everyone else. [sigh])
And the subject house - on the Housatonic River ? I can think of some white-water boaters who would go ape over that, and accept the trains for that short of a drive to the river - and some of them are fans, too. “Whatever floats your boat”, I suppose . . . I woudn’t mind a place along the Lehigh River around here, or the Deerfield River up towards the Hoosac Tunnel in the Zoar/ Charlemont area, either !
- Paul North.
The owner apparently doesn’t mind the one or two trains a day, which would make it kind of a bust as a railfan hangout.
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[/…After checking out the photo…I note: No freight trains are going to “blast by” on those rails…Perhaps, “Trundle”, but not blast. I suppose many rail fans wouldn’t mind that.
And Paul if you wanted to make friends for life with the Rail roaders just get an old order hoop and hoop up a breakfast snack! A new meaning of bed and breakfast!
We have a house here that is just about that close to the tracks. Just about big enough for two people, if you don’t move around a lot. Keeping my eye on it, but the lady that lives there doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to move.
So will continue staring at the house while trackside - just in case…
Not perfect for me: not enough traffic!
There is one in my town for sale. You are 40 feet from the BNSF Transcon at the end of a Deadend street. Good enough for you. Here is the linky for it
Hell the taxes on it would be less than a grand a year.