Train whistles

I read with interest the letter from Angel Dominguez in the Feb. 25 Pilot on the Birch Point railroad crossing.

I grew up in a Whitefish railroad family and there were many more whistles then than there are now. We also had the very loud noise from the switch yard which was pretty much 24/7. We slept very well and still do. Your body adjusts to sleeping through familiar noises.

Ramsey Avenue is very close to the railroad tracks. If you are disturbed by the train whistles and feel that BNSF owes you something, maybe you should live in another area of town. Or better yet, a town that is not on a railroad line.

As far as asking BNSF to “please be a good neighbor..invest in the community of Whitefish...a town of importance,” the railroad MADE this town.

— Jean Underwood Henke, Whitefish