You can see trains from your house? Awesome.
I live one block away from a street with a train track running down the middle of the street. The tracks were there when the street was only a wagon trail.
The entire thing is a part of a transportation museum and the trains are just there to show off, but this time of year (fair season) the trains run several times per day. They have about twenty engines from the thirties, forties, and fifties that pull usually about twelve or so diner cars or passenger cars downtown to the fairgrounds.
So every day we get to see five or six classic old trains pulling passenger cars one block away.
They also have a HUGE steam engine from the eighteen nineties, but it only is run about three times per year.