Residents of this apartment block in China have lived with an actual train going through the building for 11 years now.
Amazingly, they haven't complained about the noise (if you take state-run media's word for it.)
All the same, the building's design seems to work remarkably well in mountainous and dense Chongqing, where builders say it was necessary to have the train go through the block.
The train reportedly runs on rubber tyres with air suspension units, and produce a mere 75.8 decibels of sound — 10 dB above a normal conversation. Read more...
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