Sounds perfectly normal to me, David. After all, isn't this what freight trains do?

Quoted in After winning Foxconn, Southeast Wisconsin prepares for influx of jobs as residents fear loss of 'peace and quiet'.  (Chicago Tribune, 11/20/2017)

Maybe you have this in mind, David?

Photo by Retiring Guy's dad

(taken in June 1958 on U.S. 20 between Chicago and Rockford)