If you would like to hear a train and don't have time to listen to birds, go to the end of the video. My goal was to record the sound of what I thought might be an owl. The owl remained silent, but at the end of the video, you will hear the sound of a train from three miles away.
I am reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret after having watched Martin Scorsese's "Hugo." There are trains running through that story, and from that story I have a new appreciation of trains, train stations, clocks, automata, books, children, silent films, Paris in 1931, World War I veterans, writing, drawing, adventure ...
