To the editor:

I could not agree more with Donald W. Coffin’s letter, “A good track record,” which was published on Dec. 8.

The residents in the Brunswick West area need to come down from the ledge. It seems like Doomsday when you talk to anyone who lives over in that area, where the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority proposes to build a train layover facility.

The tracks were there long before I was around and before most of the houses were even there. If you bought a house in the past seven years and your real estate agent didn’t tell you the train was coming back, scream at them.

Like Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur said to the people of the Philippines, “ I shall return.” Residents of this town have known for years the train would come back. That’s why the tracks stayed.

I personally wouldn’t buy a house next to the tracks if I had a problem with the trains. It’s common sense that if there are tracks there will be a train on them at some point.

I live in East Brunswick and have heard the planes from the Navy base all my life. But like anything else, the jet wash became white noise.

Let’s not waste a great opportunity for this town to thrive, and please stop with the closed-door meetings.

You’re not making any friends.

Rob Peabody

Brunswick