Wats your favorite RR land mark or scen of intrest??

[trainfan1221]

Horseshoe is the only significant one I've been to. Lots of trains there...

[DavidH]

CP's spiral tunnels. Can't believe no one has mentioned them.

David

[vsmith]

Los Angeles Union Station.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by yankeejwb

Actually, my favorite RR site isn't anything famous. In fact, there's not much left to it. It's what's left of the yard at Mechanicville NY. I found it by accident one evening ten years ago after making a wrong turn down an old gravel road. Most of the track has been either ripped up or is in ruins, but among the remains are an interlocking tower, a sanding facility, and a huge 2-stall engine house that's mostly intact. Granted, the place is a wreck, but just walking around really makes your imagination wonder[^]. Recently I've tried to find out more about the yard and what roads used it. Any info would be great.

It used to be a D&H/B&M interchange yard, after Guilford took over both railroads the yard was ripped up, today CP (the present owner of the D&H), NS, and Guildford interchange at nearby Mohawk Yard.

[cjcrescent]

Although for now it is closed and in the Railbank, my absolute favorite is Saluda Grade in NC. The grade average is over 4.5% and in places it goes to 5%. And this is on a mainline. While active you could go there and see manuevers than haven't been seen in years, like tripling the hill with a 50 car train, 3 SD-70's or GE C40-W's struggling up the hill with twenty cars in notch-8 and you can walk faster than the train is moving.
Rumor has it that NS will be reopening the grade due to increased traffic from port of Charleston SC, and expansion at the ballast quarries in and around Ashville. Plus there is the matter of any trip by rail to avoid the grade adds 150-200 miles to a trip.

[Anonymous]

Actually, my favorite RR site isn't anything famous. In fact, there's not much left to it. It's what's left of the yard at Mechanicville NY. I found it by accident one evening ten years ago after making a wrong turn down an old gravel road. Most of the track has been either ripped up or is in ruins, but among the remains are an interlocking tower, a sanding facility, and a huge 2-stall engine house that's mostly intact. Granted, the place is a wreck, but just walking around really makes your imagination wonder[^]. Recently I've tried to find out more about the yard and what roads used it. Any info would be great.

[Vampire]

I like Fostoria, Ohio and its "Iron Triangle". Lots of trains running on former C&O, B&O and NKP lines, now run by CSX and NS. Tehachapi Loop and Horseshoe Curve probably tie for second.

[Anonymous]

My "other" vote is for the Keddie Wye on the UP (originally Western Pacific) in the fantastic Feather River Canyon. Wish I could find more space on my layout to do this area justice even with selective compression.

[twhite]

Used to be Donner Pass, before SP screwed it up just before the UP takeover. Now it's the Keddie Wye on he old WP. Very busy place now, with about 24 UP trains per day and 7-9 BNSF trains off of the old Highline. And the wye trestle is about as graceful a piece of bridge-building as you'll find anywhere. I'm also very fond of Cuesta on the old SP Coast Line, just north of San Luis Obispo. Talk about snaking track down a mountainside!

[Anonymous]

Sherman Hill. The best looking "nothing" scenery in the railroad world!

[mustanggt]

a part of the mbta commuter rail on the lowell line, near a carwash, I saw the downeaster there once

[Anonymous]

It was a tough to choose bryan9664 it was either cajon pass or tehaachapi loop but Southern Pacific is my favorite railroad I went with tehaachapi loop.

[darth9x9]

I had to vote other as my favorite is B&O's Point of Rocks station.
http://www.pointofrocksagainstpowerplants.com/trainstat3.jpg
and
http://www.mcmullans.org/canal/point_of_rocks_railroad_station.htm

Located in the wye at the lower right of this satelite view:
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?S=11&T=1&X=703&Y=10876&Z=18&W=2

[Anonymous]

North Durbin on Tony Koester's Allegheny Midland.

[johncolley]

My overall favorite has to be Feather River Canyon and the Keddie Wye. After that I like the high trestles on Great Northern such as Two Medicine Bridge in Montana. As a youngster I can still (67 now) remember riding a passenger train headed by steam that took 10 minutes just to cross the Fraser River into New Westminster, BC. Of course you have to think of the breadth of Canada. It was 7 days by train from Vancouver to Ottawa. Once you got through the Rockies, the prairies went on forever.

[Anonymous]

I voted for Horseshoe Curve. But Cajon Pass, especially Sullivan's Curve, is very nice as well.

[AntonioFP45]

Any straight 2 track or multitrack mainline where the hot shot freights and passenger cruisers fly by at 70+plus m.p.h!

[espeefoamer]

I voted for Tehachapi,but one of my favcorite spots is the Columbia River Gorge,with UP on the Oregon side,and BN(SF) on the Washington side[:)].

[slotracer]

I hung the camera up after Conrail was formed but brought it out when I moved West to shoot Tennessee Pass before UP closed that down.

My favorite memories though are of teh LV between Geneva and Jim Thorpe, the EL through the Canisteo River alley as well as the old Erie Sout of Binghamton and the DL&W cutoff between Bhamton and Scranton.

Mega loads of trains, yards, lines and tacks all over Buffalo NY, magnificant stations of the NYC and DL&W in Buffalo. LAckawanna over Danville Hill and the Erie and B&O in and around Salamanca NY. Great plaxes these used to be.....

[Anonymous]

Not exactly landmarks but great viewing.

1.) The Union Station in Dallas. You get UP and BN freight, Trinity River commuter trains, Amtrak, and Dart light rail all at one place.

2.) The up lines across western Nebraska. You can literally drive 2/3 of the way across Nebraska, from Wyoming to Grand Island without being out of sight of at least one train and usually more.

3.) North Platte UP yard at night. Unbelievably large.

[cwclark]

Flatonia, Texas yard - (When the former Tower 3 was in place) , a yard plus a crossover and 3 wyes....a train crossing from San Antonio to Houston and from Victoria to Hearne with the wyes connecting them all into any given route....I also like the Englewood yard in Houston...miles of track with hump yard action...Chuck[:D]

[Anonymous]

The ENTIRE Norfolk Southern Pittsburgh Line from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh, many famous places on or near the line, Rockville, Enola, Marysville, Cove, Juniata, Altoona, Horseshoe Curve, Galitzin, Cresson, Cassandra, Johnstown, and the Pittsburgh area are famous places on the Pittsburgh Line.

[Anonymous]

I picked horseshoe curve mainly beecause there are so many spots around there to go watch trains from. Gallitzen tunnels and a veiiwing platform in cresson that has a scanner and you don't get the tourists.
Andrew

[LuthierTom]

N&W's Blue Ridge Grade

[BRAKIE]

For me,the NS at Bellevue(major yard -exNKP)CSX/NS at Frostoria and Marion...Of course these places are located in Ohio.

[tutaenui]

Rimutaka Incline, Denniston Incline Both in New Zealand and alas no more.
Landwasser viaduct and the Albula spirals on the RhB Switzerland
Chengdu -Kunming line in China

[Anonymous]

Cajon Pass
Sherman Hill
Southern Powder River Basin

[Anonymous]

Hore Shoe curve is my favorite

[TrainFreak409]

I cannot vote on this one.

I like Horseshoe Curve, because that's Pennsy. T1's, #6100 S1, and so on.

But, I also like Sherman Hill. TURBINES! TURBINES! TURBINES!

Sorry, but you made it too hard for me.

[8]TrainFreak409[8]