History Main / DingyTrainsideApartment

-->'''Jake:''' How often does the train go by?\\
'''Elwood:''' So often that you won't even notice it.

* The Grand Duke Hotel that Nathaniel and Edward check into in ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' is right next to the BMT Jamaica Line in Brooklyn.

* ''Film/Se7en'': Detective Mills and his wife live in an apartment foisted on them by a dodgy real estate agent who kept hustling them through on inspection so they wouldn't notice the trains passing by like clockwork throughout the night and day. Somerset can't help finding this ActuallyPrettyFunny. [[spoiler:And the noise of the trains gives John Doe cover to murder Mills's wife]].

* ''Series/{{My Name is Earl}}'': In "Randy´s List Item", one of the witness protection identities for Joy and Darnell is a poor New York family living in an apartment right next to an elevated train. And with the vent from a steam cleaner going through their floor.
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': One unsub is a serial killer who train hops from town to town, and attacks houses that are close to the train tracks he's hitching. He gets tracked by the FBI and on their hunt for him, he gets hit by a train.
* ''Series/Sense8'': Will Gorski lives in an apartment that overlooks the Chicago train lines. When Riley [[PsychicLink visits]] and sees the location she asks how he can sleep with the trains going past so close to his window. Will claims you "get used to it".

* ''Film/VampireInBrooklyn'': Rita and Nikki shared an apartment right near the elevated subway tracks. But neither of them are bothered by it because it's Brooklyn and the city never sleeps.
* ''Film/{{Wanted}}'': Wesley Gibson and his girlfriend live in a crappy apartment right next to the Chicago 'L'. It's deliberately used to underline the crappiness of Wesley's existence.
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Dolores' restaurant is right by the Red Car service station, which routinely shakes the plates in the diner. Dolores herself is so used to it, she instinctively reaches for the nearest pile of plates right before the shaking starts.

* ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore''. Mortimer visits an old man who lives in a house next to the railroad. Apparently the railroad agent gave him a choice of selling his land, or he'd buy up the land of the guy next door and then all the trains going back and forth all night long would drive him crazy. He certainly appears to have gone crazy, and when Mortimer is leaving the vibrations from a train are knocking the entire house down around his ears.
* The Grand Duke Hotel that Nathaniel and Edward check into in ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' is right next to the BMT Jamaica Line in Brooklyn.
* ''Film/DeathNote2017'': First scene in Light's house starts with an intercity train passing by and everything in his house shaking.
* A noisy train can be heard going by the apartment that Callie and her kids get evicted from at the start of ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife''.
* The film version of ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' turns the ''Leaky Cauldron'', of all places, into one of these, with the upper inn portion being adjacent to an elevated rail line.

* ''[[Film/Yesterday2019 Yesterday]]'': Jack records his first batch of Beatles songs in a studio by train tracks owned by acquintance Gavin.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "The Choices", a flashback montage of Richard and Nicole's relationship reveals that when they were starting out, they lived in one of these.

* ''Theatre/WonderfulTown'': The basement apartment that Ruth and Eileen share is constantly shaken by explosions from the construction of the subway directly underneath them. The musical is based on author Ruth [=McKenney's=] autobiographic short stories about moving to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and living in a basement apartment directly adjoining the Christopher Street subway station.

* ''VideoGame/RipenedTinglesBalloonTripOfLove'': Tingle lives in one of these.

* In ''Film/MyCousinVinny'', Vinny and his girlfriend spent their first couple nights in the DeepSouth in a hotel room next to a train that keeps waking them up at midnight. A subplot concerns their trying to find someplace else to sleep.

* ''[[Film/Yesterday2019 Yesterday]]: Jack records his first batch of Beatles songs in a studio by train tracks owned by acquintance Gavin.

* In the ''Suspense'' radio play ''Sorry, Wrong Number'' and [[Film/SorryWrongNumber its film adaptation]], a murder is planned for [[CacaphonyCoverUp right when a train passes by the victim's apartment.]]

* The entire ''district'' of Pauper's Drop in ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' is a variant of this: it was built directly under the rail line as a place for the work crew to live during its construction. Those who couldn't afford to move somewhere else ended up stuck there, turning it into one of the city's two known slums. As one character comments, "There ain't a side of the track more wrong than under 'em."

* In ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', Elwood takes Jake to his tiny room in a broken-down flophouse. Aside from the fact that there's no room to move, the UsefulNotes/ChicagoL passes by ever time the window is shown.

* ''Series/{{Speechless}}'': In the pilot episode, it's shown that the [=DiMeos=] always choose "the worst house in the best school district". A flashback to a previous home has Maya complain that it's next to the freeway. Jimmy points out that it's only ''near'' the freeway, it's ''next'' to the railroad, and at that point a huge train comes roaring past.
* ''Series/{{My Name is Earl}}'':In "Randy´s List Item", one of the witness protection identities for Joy and Darnell is a poor New York family living in an apartment right next to an elevated train. And with the vent from a steam cleaner going through their floor.

* In ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', Elwood takes Jake to his tiny room in a broken-down flophouse. Aside from the fact that there's no room to move, the UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} "L" passes by ever time the window is shown.