Read through this and if someone mentioned Miller Park I missed it. CP, former Milwaukee Road, has a double track main line curving around the grounds on the west.
The Minor League Hockey Team in Everet, WA has a train horn proudly displaying the BNSF logo for when the Silvertips make a goal.
A whistle would go well with the cannon in Columbus!
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I report .. you decide ... The Blackhawks and many others definitely !!
https://youtu.be/OS7_oUApY_E
Anaheim Ducks and San Jose Sharks probably ship or fog horns.
LA Kings and Winnipeg Jets definitely train horns.
Someone should break from the pack and use a Steam Whistle!
Chicago Blackhawks. Columbus Blue Jackets, Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators would be good candidates!
Come on guys, DO IT!
guetem1isn't there a major sports stadium that uses a train horn to signal a goal?
Fairly common at hockey arenas, I think.
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I'd nominate Liberty Bowl Stadium at memphis,Tn. Off Hollywood Street. The crossing is withing about 50 or 60 yards of the East side of the stadium.
It is the ICRR (now CNR's East Memphis -double tracked- Freight By-Pass.) Back when the RRRR Circus had a train, and it was playing at the Fargrounds; they would park the train just off that crossing and parade through what was the Stadium parking lot.
And also the "Pyramid" venue at downtown Memphis was hard by the ICRR's (Now CNR's) Passenger line on the Bluff, and the old Poplar Streeet Station 'yard'was right by the station{ Of Casey Jones fame). Events that required trains of animals or gear[either Royal AmericanShows or RRBB] would unload at the Poplar St yard, and parade to the area's venues.
Lithonia Operator When I went to Univ. of Georgia, a CofG branch line ran right behind one end zone. At that time, there were no substantial stands at that end. The track was on a high embankment, and lots of people would watch games from there. On game days sometimes a train would come; it would approach VERY slowly, and blow and blow until the crowd moved off the tracks. Once the train was gone, the fans returned.
When I went to Univ. of Georgia, a CofG branch line ran right behind one end zone. At that time, there were no substantial stands at that end. The track was on a high embankment, and lots of people would watch games from there. On game days sometimes a train would come; it would approach VERY slowly, and blow and blow until the crowd moved off the tracks. Once the train was gone, the fans returned.
Memorial Stadium in Champaign is close to the old IC line. Years ago, there were some football specials from Chicago that parked on a siding and returned postgame. Once the entire West Point corps of upperclassmen made the journey by rail.
jeffhergert The Iowa Northern (IANR's Dan Sabin was behind the idea) supplies the cars and a locomotive, painted in a RI passenger scheme and the IAIS supplies the operating crew. Car attendents are volunteers. The train shuttles back and forth a few miles between the stadium and parking facilities in Coralville.
The Iowa Northern (IANR's Dan Sabin was behind the idea) supplies the cars and a locomotive, painted in a RI passenger scheme and the IAIS supplies the operating crew. Car attendents are volunteers. The train shuttles back and forth a few miles between the stadium and parking facilities in Coralville.
Correction- TWO locos, one on either end.
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Los Angeles Rams Guy Don't forget Kinnick Stadium, the football home of the Iowa Hawkeyes which has the former Rock Island (now IAIS) Chicago - Omaha mainline running by it on the southwest side of the stadium. I vividly remember when I was an elementary school kid back in the late 60's hearing the RI freights that rumble by.
Don't forget Kinnick Stadium, the football home of the Iowa Hawkeyes which has the former Rock Island (now IAIS) Chicago - Omaha mainline running by it on the southwest side of the stadium. I vividly remember when I was an elementary school kid back in the late 60's hearing the RI freights that rumble by.
Back in RI days, they used to have a "Stadium track" where football specials unloaded and were parked during the game.
That track is gone, but on game days one can still take the train to the game. The Iowa Northern (IANR's Dan Sabin was behind the idea) supplies the cars and a locomotive, painted in a RI passenger scheme and the IAIS supplies the operating crew. Car attendents are volunteers. The train shuttles back and forth a few miles between the stadium and parking facilities in Coralville.
Here's a flyer from a previous season.
https://www.iowanorthern.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/hawkeye_express_2014_flyer.pdf
Jeff
Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor is next to the Ann Arbor Railroad, which decades ago hosted multiple special football passenger trains, including power and cars from GTW and C&O.
Spartan Stadium in East Lansing used to have a C&O spur next to it, which also had football specials.
I was doing research on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and I found they ran
a passenger train from Union station to Buffalo Stadium, Houston, Texas
on Oct, 3, 1941
Michael Lowe
The Binghamton Mets stadium was built mostly in a train yard in the early 1990s.
Freight trains would interrupt games regularly. The organ plays various train songs while the players pause. I remember watching the through trains above the left field fence. Henry6 will be able to correct me but the track bed is higher than the fence and you hear *everything*. Smoke also pours out over the field depending on the wind.
It's sort of like when the jets fly over Shea Stadium.
ChuckCobleighdesertdog At one time, the C&E / Milwaukee Road (a/k/a the "Lakewood" Branch) ran right past Wrigley Field. There was even a siding. John Timm Probably brought a lot of coal to the coal towers (silos?) that were between the ballpark and Clark St?
desertdog At one time, the C&E / Milwaukee Road (a/k/a the "Lakewood" Branch) ran right past Wrigley Field. There was even a siding. John Timm
At one time, the C&E / Milwaukee Road (a/k/a the "Lakewood" Branch) ran right past Wrigley Field. There was even a siding.
John Timm
Probably brought a lot of coal to the coal towers (silos?) that were between the ballpark and Clark St?
I understand that there was a team track there. It was before I lived in Chicago and spent any real time there so I do not know for certain. There were many coal companies along the C&NW and the C&E at one time--and even the EL which had electric freight service--, so the answer is probably "yes." As you may already know, there is an excellent website that covers the history of the line right up to what is left of it today: http://www.mannresearch.com/lakewood/
All the replies and know one mentioning the oldest Major League Ball Park in America.
The Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park is located in the Back Bay section of Boston. Built in 1912, rail service then was a must, and still is. Today the double track rail line is the CSX main line into Boston and is also used by the MBTA Commuter Rail Service. There is a passenger platform at Fenway Park called "Yawkey Way", named for the former Red Sox owner, it is used only when a Home Game is scheduled. Also, Boston's "Green Line" Subway (one of four Subway Lines in Boston) stops two blocks away from Fenway at Kenmore Square. I have never driven to a game when working in Boston.
Fenway is noted for it's Left Field Wall know as the "Green Monster". When a "Home Run" is hit over it, just clearing it, the ball will land in a parking garage behind the wall, hit a little harder it lands on the Railroad tracks, if the ball is "crushed" it can make it beyond to the Massachusetts Turnpike.
While most of the "Home Runs" land on the top deck of the garage, that double track Main Line of CSX (formally the Boston & Albany) runs next to the garage, 100 feet or so behind the "Green Monster".
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The Los Angeles Coliseum is going to find itself adjacent to a rail line once again.
The old PE "Santa Monica Air Line" ran down the middle of Exposition Blvd. (the border between USC and the Coliseum/Exposition Park). In the 1930s and 1940s, these tracks were also used by both UP and ATSF to park and show off new passenger power and/or equipment.
Passenger service (Red Cars) left in the 1950s, freight service sometime maybe in the 1970s.
The right-of-way was preserved, and light rail service is coming to this route.
Some years ago the LA Times had a story about a stadium in the Mexican League that had a freight line cutting across the outfield. They had to hold up the game when a train came through.
Jack
It has already been mentioned that the Superdome in New Orleans is near its Union Passenger Terminal--but the only thing between them is the New Orleans Arena, where the Hornets play their home games; just a street and a fence separate the Arena from the UPT tracks.
Also, as previously mentioned, IC trackage does run right by Alex Box (baseball) stadium at LSU in Baton Rouge, and then it's an easy enough walk from there to Tiger Stadium and the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, where LSU plays football and basketball, respectively.
The Bob Devany Sports Center in Lincoln NE is right next to the BNSF line. Once while at a basketball game there was a PA announcment..."To the owner of the blue Oldsmobile Cutlass license 16-16y42 you are parked too close to the tracks. You may pick up your car in Havelock, Waveryly, Greenwood and Ashland after the game."
If University Stadiums count, University of Louisville Football Stadium (Papa Johns Cardnial Stadium) is on the site of the old L & N Shops abd us at the junction of the Former L & N Main Stem and Short Line.
Bob Dawson
Busch Stadium in St. Louis is close. We have a light rail system that stops right at the Stadium.
Union Pacific has a big yards nearby (former MoPac yards). Their trains can be seen from the stadium heading out to go over the river. Amtrak also passes nearby as it heads for the tunnel under the Arch.
Busch Stadium in St Louis is close (about a block away) from a large TRRA yard and the approaches to the MacArthur Bridge - from the upper deck concourse, there is a pretty good view of the bridge. A lot of the parking lots are near a large train yard.
Marshall University has a CSX locomotive painted in its colors thanks to the Huntington Locomotive Shops - it used to go to the home games and some of the road games. apparently there is a spur right next to the stadium where they would park it.
Also on the college level, James Madison University's football stadium sits right next to Norfolk Southern tracks (ex-Chesapeake & Western). Back when I was young, students and others used to sit on the hill to watch the games to avoid the prohibition of alcohol in the stadium. Occassionally, they made announcements saying that a train was coming and the game was stopped while the train passed - the JMU band would pay tribute to the train by playing "The Orange Blossom Special." Eventually, they used increased train traffic to close off the hill and now while the tracks are still there, any view from the hill would be blocked by a new scoreboard.
Richmond's former minor league stadium (now used by VCU) used to be near a spur off of the former SAL Hermitage Road yard, but I think its been removed, but CSX trains still roll by only about a block away.
The now demolished football stadium in Roanoke (best known for hosting the formerly fierce football rivalry between Virginia Tech and VMI) sat near the Virginian station which is last time I saw a burned out hulk. NS trains still go by there frequently.
RFK Stadium sits across the Anacostia River from the ex-B&O (now CSX) Benning Road yard in Washington, DC. Uline Arena (long closed and converted to a trash transfer station - best known for hosting the first Beatles concert in the US in 1964 while known as Washington Colisseum, but also hosted basketball and boxing) is very close to the Ivy City engine terminal near Washington Union Station.
spokyone Madison Square Gardens have tracks very close. I couldn't see any trains from my seat however.
Madison Square Gardens have tracks very close. I couldn't see any trains from my seat however.
Look straight down.
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The Florida East Coast Railway's branch to the Port of Miami passes just in front of Miami's American Airlines Stadium. Considering TriRail trains for special games/events can travel down this spur, it is particularly amazing that no station planning was included when the stadium was constructed.
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