Thanks for your replies! Wow Duke, 25-35 sounds like a lot.
This morning I found a few older (2015) city-data postings that say the line that runes near Golden Ponds (so say between Airport and Sunset) is less traveled than the tracks running along Atwood. Still true?
Aperture, I think your advice to spend a few hours sitting near anywhere I might want to buy makes really solid sense. I am going to have to do that.
I am (as usual) overindulging in internet information from redfin/trulia/zillow and taxing google maps, click-learning my way around town and essentially saving a base map in my head. I won't actually be there for another week or so though. I was in town last week and we did some driving around town to try and get a feel for different areas but one can only see so much that way, and funny enough I didn't see or hear a train the entire week.
It is definitely going to take some wrangling to come up with what we want there in a muustachian price range (if one could say that even still exists in Longmont). Good schools since we likely won't homeschool forever, proximity to the J bus or Bolt to make best use of a free RTD pass, bike paths for grocery runs, and a 3 bedroom house seem like something of a unicorn in our price range. Ah well, it will happen when it does. :)