Living in Lancaster’s Northwest, about a half mile from where the Dillerville Rail Yard, I am frequently disturbed in the middle of the night by the low rumbling sounds coming from idling train cars. This usually continues uninterrupted for an hour or more. I also hear the occasional banging of train cars being hooked and unhooked, which sounds like a garbage dumper compressing trash.
Although I welcome the removal of the rail yard from my “back yard”, this doesn’t mean that I wish this on someone else’s “back yard”, especially upscale neighborhoods like Barrcrest and School Lane Hills.
(The rail yard is also being expanded to 14 tracks.)
I keep wondering: How could John Fry do this to this to his neighbors in School Lane Hills? Does he expect to leave Lancaster, once the tracks are moved? A switching yard belongs in an industrial area, not a residential one.
An independent study should have been required before F&M received a penny of the millions of dollars of taxpayer money that they have received from state and federal sources.
