QUOTE: Originally posted by MP57313 Originally posted by mudchicken DRGW Marysville post Thistle Trying to make a comeback?! Amazing! (How much business could there be...) FD-34075 on the STB Website ("Six County Rail Initiative") Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west Reply CSSHEGEWISCH Member sinceMarch 2016 From: Burbank IL (near Clearing) 13,540 posts Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:51 AM I'll cast my vote for the Minnesota ore haulers: Reserve Mining Company and Erie Mining Company. Honorable mention would go to Delray Connecting in Michigan, most of its trackage is on an island in the Detroit River with no public access which is occupied by a a steel mill. The daily commute is part of everyday life but I get two rides a day out of it. Paul Reply spbed Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Austin TX 4,941 posts Posted by spbed on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:52 AM How about the Copper Canyon RR in Mexico? Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply MP57313 Member sinceJune 2001 From: L A County, CA, US 1,009 posts Posted by MP57313 on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:47 AM As for abandoned lines, in the eastern Sierra region of California there was the Bodie & Benton Narrow Gauge. It ran from (now ghost town) Bodie to Mono Mills near Mono Lake. Never made it to Benton (on the Carson & Colorado, later SP Narrow Gauge). Reply MP57313 Member sinceJune 2001 From: L A County, CA, US 1,009 posts Posted by MP57313 on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:44 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken (3) Hawaii's surviving NG railroad/ tourist hauler The Lahaina Kaanapali & Pacific! QUOTE: DRGW Marysville post Thistle Trying to make a comeback?! Amazing! (How much business could there be...) QUOTE: (13) What's left of the old ATSF SanJac (Perris, CA) Orange Empire Museum ran a charter train on this, Perris-Highgrove, a couple of years ago. Actually more carload freight customers than I would have imagined...a feed mill, some covered hoppers (plastics/resins?), a quarry on a spur, and several boxcars on other sidings. Not sure if there is much left past Perris though. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:00 AM What about hardest mainline to parallel? Try doing any train watching on UP's "Washy" line between Wallula and Cheney WA. There aren't even any mountain biking or hiking trails nearby. Reply Edit dldance Member sinceAugust 2003 From: Near Promentory UT 1,590 posts Posted by dldance on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:41 PM In the late 1950's the Atomic Energy Commission ( now DOE) built an unusual 4 rail track between several experiment locations and a pair of shielded machine shops where radioactive materials could be safely worked on. This was in connection with a proposed nuclear powered airplane. (Glad that didn't fly.) The railroad is not connected with any other railroad but is still in place at the Idaho Nuclear Energy site. That facility is about the size of the state of Rhode Island and the railroad is many miles from the nearest acessable highways. It is in restricted airspace so you can't even fly over it. The facility was used to do the post-mortum on the Three Mile Island reactors. dd Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:28 PM What about the Chicago Tunnel Company? http://users.ameritech.net/scalemodel/tunnel6.html Reply Edit mudchicken Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Denver / La Junta 10,820 posts Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:11 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by Dunkirkeriestation I would have to say the White Pass and Yukon,, Narrow gauge and does not connect to anything Add to that premise of railroad "Islands": (1) Navajo RR (Black Mesa & Lake Powell) in NE Arizona (mine to Powerplant) (2)Deseret Western (Bonanza UT to near Rangely, CO) (mine to powerplant) (3) Hawaii's surviving NG railroad/ tourist hauler (4) Nevada Northern Ely,NV (*) (5) Colorado Leadville & Southern Climax-Leadville(*) (6) California & Western RR (Willits-Ft. Bragg, CA) (*) (7abc) Durango & Silverton/Cumbres&Toltec(*)/Georgetown Loop NG (8) SSLV=Southern San Luis Valley (somebody forgot to abandon) (9) SP's former Mina Branch (USG-Hawthorne, NV)(*) (10) DRGW Marysville (UT) BR (Looking to re-emerge post Thistle) (11) Columbiana County Port Authority (old Youngstown Southern) (12) Southwest Portland Cement (Victorville, CA) & Cushenberry Br. (13) What's left of the old ATSF SanJac (Perris, CA) (14) Trona RR (15) Apache RR (Alcos and all) [?][?][?] (*) Connected to the rest of the world by the thinnest of hopes Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:33 PM I would have to say the White Pass and Yukon,, Narrow gauge and does not connect to anything Reply Edit Noah Hofrichter Member sinceJanuary 2004 From: Reedsburg WI (near Wisconsin Dells) 3,370 posts Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:43 PM Brandon, What town does your dad work in? Most of the WSOR trackage is still operatonal, they haven't abondoned anything that I know, but I could be wong. there's only a few places too where they don't operate that often that the track could get that over grown. I'm curious. Noah Click the image above to visit my website, Badger Rails. My Model Railroad Club's website: http://sandhousecrew.webng.com Reply martin.knoepfel Member sinceDecember 2003 400 posts Posted by martin.knoepfel on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:45 PM there used to be a mine-railroad on the Norwegian-Soviet island of Spitzbergen. I once saw a pic of a steam engine. Perhaps, in the Russian mines, there are still operational railroads. in the former GDR, there was a railroad, the "Windbergbahn", that hauled uranium for the USSR. The entire area was no-go for foreigners, perhaps even for GDR-subjects. You better didn't trespass there. generally, most steelworks have railroads, but they don't admit visitors. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:33 PM Thats a tricky question to me, the only railroad like that, would be the old Wisconsin & Southern tracks by my dads work terminal. On the way there, you drive over an old railroad crossing where the crossing is asphalted over. You can just barely see the tracks in the summer time because of the weeds and grass but the signs are still there. p.s. Wisconsin & Southern is still an operational railroad. Woo Hoo! Reply Edit espeefoamer Member sinceNovember 2003 From: West Coast 4,122 posts Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:21 PM There is a hotel in Industry,CA.that has an incline railway between the hotel and the golf course.There is a street behind the golf course where you can get a distant view of the railroad. Ride Amtrak. Cats Rule, Dogs Drool. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts The Most Secluded Railroad!!!! Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:16 PM What is the most secluded Railroad? A railroad that is very hard to see or photograph. A railroad that is so embedded into the wilderness that to see it, one must go searching. It could be active or abandoned. Pictures would be great! Reply Edit Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. 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Originally posted by mudchicken DRGW Marysville post Thistle Trying to make a comeback?! Amazing! (How much business could there be...) FD-34075 on the STB Website ("Six County Rail Initiative") Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west Reply CSSHEGEWISCH Member sinceMarch 2016 From: Burbank IL (near Clearing) 13,540 posts Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:51 AM I'll cast my vote for the Minnesota ore haulers: Reserve Mining Company and Erie Mining Company. Honorable mention would go to Delray Connecting in Michigan, most of its trackage is on an island in the Detroit River with no public access which is occupied by a a steel mill. The daily commute is part of everyday life but I get two rides a day out of it. Paul Reply spbed Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Austin TX 4,941 posts Posted by spbed on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:52 AM How about the Copper Canyon RR in Mexico? Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply MP57313 Member sinceJune 2001 From: L A County, CA, US 1,009 posts Posted by MP57313 on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:47 AM As for abandoned lines, in the eastern Sierra region of California there was the Bodie & Benton Narrow Gauge. It ran from (now ghost town) Bodie to Mono Mills near Mono Lake. Never made it to Benton (on the Carson & Colorado, later SP Narrow Gauge). Reply MP57313 Member sinceJune 2001 From: L A County, CA, US 1,009 posts Posted by MP57313 on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:44 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken (3) Hawaii's surviving NG railroad/ tourist hauler The Lahaina Kaanapali & Pacific! QUOTE: DRGW Marysville post Thistle Trying to make a comeback?! Amazing! (How much business could there be...) QUOTE: (13) What's left of the old ATSF SanJac (Perris, CA) Orange Empire Museum ran a charter train on this, Perris-Highgrove, a couple of years ago. Actually more carload freight customers than I would have imagined...a feed mill, some covered hoppers (plastics/resins?), a quarry on a spur, and several boxcars on other sidings. Not sure if there is much left past Perris though. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:00 AM What about hardest mainline to parallel? Try doing any train watching on UP's "Washy" line between Wallula and Cheney WA. There aren't even any mountain biking or hiking trails nearby. Reply Edit dldance Member sinceAugust 2003 From: Near Promentory UT 1,590 posts Posted by dldance on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:41 PM In the late 1950's the Atomic Energy Commission ( now DOE) built an unusual 4 rail track between several experiment locations and a pair of shielded machine shops where radioactive materials could be safely worked on. This was in connection with a proposed nuclear powered airplane. (Glad that didn't fly.) The railroad is not connected with any other railroad but is still in place at the Idaho Nuclear Energy site. That facility is about the size of the state of Rhode Island and the railroad is many miles from the nearest acessable highways. It is in restricted airspace so you can't even fly over it. The facility was used to do the post-mortum on the Three Mile Island reactors. dd Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:28 PM What about the Chicago Tunnel Company? http://users.ameritech.net/scalemodel/tunnel6.html Reply Edit mudchicken Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Denver / La Junta 10,820 posts Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:11 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by Dunkirkeriestation I would have to say the White Pass and Yukon,, Narrow gauge and does not connect to anything Add to that premise of railroad "Islands": (1) Navajo RR (Black Mesa & Lake Powell) in NE Arizona (mine to Powerplant) (2)Deseret Western (Bonanza UT to near Rangely, CO) (mine to powerplant) (3) Hawaii's surviving NG railroad/ tourist hauler (4) Nevada Northern Ely,NV (*) (5) Colorado Leadville & Southern Climax-Leadville(*) (6) California & Western RR (Willits-Ft. Bragg, CA) (*) (7abc) Durango & Silverton/Cumbres&Toltec(*)/Georgetown Loop NG (8) SSLV=Southern San Luis Valley (somebody forgot to abandon) (9) SP's former Mina Branch (USG-Hawthorne, NV)(*) (10) DRGW Marysville (UT) BR (Looking to re-emerge post Thistle) (11) Columbiana County Port Authority (old Youngstown Southern) (12) Southwest Portland Cement (Victorville, CA) & Cushenberry Br. (13) What's left of the old ATSF SanJac (Perris, CA) (14) Trona RR (15) Apache RR (Alcos and all) [?][?][?] (*) Connected to the rest of the world by the thinnest of hopes Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:33 PM I would have to say the White Pass and Yukon,, Narrow gauge and does not connect to anything Reply Edit Noah Hofrichter Member sinceJanuary 2004 From: Reedsburg WI (near Wisconsin Dells) 3,370 posts Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:43 PM Brandon, What town does your dad work in? Most of the WSOR trackage is still operatonal, they haven't abondoned anything that I know, but I could be wong. there's only a few places too where they don't operate that often that the track could get that over grown. I'm curious. Noah Click the image above to visit my website, Badger Rails. My Model Railroad Club's website: http://sandhousecrew.webng.com Reply martin.knoepfel Member sinceDecember 2003 400 posts Posted by martin.knoepfel on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:45 PM there used to be a mine-railroad on the Norwegian-Soviet island of Spitzbergen. I once saw a pic of a steam engine. Perhaps, in the Russian mines, there are still operational railroads. in the former GDR, there was a railroad, the "Windbergbahn", that hauled uranium for the USSR. The entire area was no-go for foreigners, perhaps even for GDR-subjects. You better didn't trespass there. generally, most steelworks have railroads, but they don't admit visitors. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:33 PM Thats a tricky question to me, the only railroad like that, would be the old Wisconsin & Southern tracks by my dads work terminal. On the way there, you drive over an old railroad crossing where the crossing is asphalted over. You can just barely see the tracks in the summer time because of the weeds and grass but the signs are still there. p.s. Wisconsin & Southern is still an operational railroad. Woo Hoo! Reply Edit espeefoamer Member sinceNovember 2003 From: West Coast 4,122 posts Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:21 PM There is a hotel in Industry,CA.that has an incline railway between the hotel and the golf course.There is a street behind the golf course where you can get a distant view of the railroad. Ride Amtrak. Cats Rule, Dogs Drool. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts The Most Secluded Railroad!!!! Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:16 PM What is the most secluded Railroad? A railroad that is very hard to see or photograph. A railroad that is so embedded into the wilderness that to see it, one must go searching. It could be active or abandoned. Pictures would be great! Reply Edit Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. 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FD-34075 on the STB Website ("Six County Rail Initiative") Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west Reply CSSHEGEWISCH Member sinceMarch 2016 From: Burbank IL (near Clearing) 13,540 posts Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:51 AM I'll cast my vote for the Minnesota ore haulers: Reserve Mining Company and Erie Mining Company. Honorable mention would go to Delray Connecting in Michigan, most of its trackage is on an island in the Detroit River with no public access which is occupied by a a steel mill. The daily commute is part of everyday life but I get two rides a day out of it. Paul Reply spbed Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Austin TX 4,941 posts Posted by spbed on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:52 AM How about the Copper Canyon RR in Mexico? Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub Reply MP57313 Member sinceJune 2001 From: L A County, CA, US 1,009 posts Posted by MP57313 on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:47 AM As for abandoned lines, in the eastern Sierra region of California there was the Bodie & Benton Narrow Gauge. It ran from (now ghost town) Bodie to Mono Mills near Mono Lake. Never made it to Benton (on the Carson & Colorado, later SP Narrow Gauge). Reply MP57313 Member sinceJune 2001 From: L A County, CA, US 1,009 posts Posted by MP57313 on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:44 AM QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken (3) Hawaii's surviving NG railroad/ tourist hauler The Lahaina Kaanapali & Pacific! QUOTE: DRGW Marysville post Thistle Trying to make a comeback?! Amazing! (How much business could there be...) QUOTE: (13) What's left of the old ATSF SanJac (Perris, CA) Orange Empire Museum ran a charter train on this, Perris-Highgrove, a couple of years ago. Actually more carload freight customers than I would have imagined...a feed mill, some covered hoppers (plastics/resins?), a quarry on a spur, and several boxcars on other sidings. Not sure if there is much left past Perris though. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:00 AM What about hardest mainline to parallel? Try doing any train watching on UP's "Washy" line between Wallula and Cheney WA. There aren't even any mountain biking or hiking trails nearby. Reply Edit dldance Member sinceAugust 2003 From: Near Promentory UT 1,590 posts Posted by dldance on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:41 PM In the late 1950's the Atomic Energy Commission ( now DOE) built an unusual 4 rail track between several experiment locations and a pair of shielded machine shops where radioactive materials could be safely worked on. This was in connection with a proposed nuclear powered airplane. (Glad that didn't fly.) The railroad is not connected with any other railroad but is still in place at the Idaho Nuclear Energy site. That facility is about the size of the state of Rhode Island and the railroad is many miles from the nearest acessable highways. It is in restricted airspace so you can't even fly over it. The facility was used to do the post-mortum on the Three Mile Island reactors. dd Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:28 PM What about the Chicago Tunnel Company? http://users.ameritech.net/scalemodel/tunnel6.html Reply Edit mudchicken Member sinceDecember 2001 From: Denver / La Junta 10,820 posts Posted by mudchicken on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:11 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by Dunkirkeriestation I would have to say the White Pass and Yukon,, Narrow gauge and does not connect to anything Add to that premise of railroad "Islands": (1) Navajo RR (Black Mesa & Lake Powell) in NE Arizona (mine to Powerplant) (2)Deseret Western (Bonanza UT to near Rangely, CO) (mine to powerplant) (3) Hawaii's surviving NG railroad/ tourist hauler (4) Nevada Northern Ely,NV (*) (5) Colorado Leadville & Southern Climax-Leadville(*) (6) California & Western RR (Willits-Ft. Bragg, CA) (*) (7abc) Durango & Silverton/Cumbres&Toltec(*)/Georgetown Loop NG (8) SSLV=Southern San Luis Valley (somebody forgot to abandon) (9) SP's former Mina Branch (USG-Hawthorne, NV)(*) (10) DRGW Marysville (UT) BR (Looking to re-emerge post Thistle) (11) Columbiana County Port Authority (old Youngstown Southern) (12) Southwest Portland Cement (Victorville, CA) & Cushenberry Br. (13) What's left of the old ATSF SanJac (Perris, CA) (14) Trona RR (15) Apache RR (Alcos and all) [?][?][?] (*) Connected to the rest of the world by the thinnest of hopes Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:33 PM I would have to say the White Pass and Yukon,, Narrow gauge and does not connect to anything Reply Edit Noah Hofrichter Member sinceJanuary 2004 From: Reedsburg WI (near Wisconsin Dells) 3,370 posts Posted by Noah Hofrichter on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:43 PM Brandon, What town does your dad work in? Most of the WSOR trackage is still operatonal, they haven't abondoned anything that I know, but I could be wong. there's only a few places too where they don't operate that often that the track could get that over grown. I'm curious. Noah Click the image above to visit my website, Badger Rails. My Model Railroad Club's website: http://sandhousecrew.webng.com Reply martin.knoepfel Member sinceDecember 2003 400 posts Posted by martin.knoepfel on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:45 PM there used to be a mine-railroad on the Norwegian-Soviet island of Spitzbergen. I once saw a pic of a steam engine. Perhaps, in the Russian mines, there are still operational railroads. in the former GDR, there was a railroad, the "Windbergbahn", that hauled uranium for the USSR. The entire area was no-go for foreigners, perhaps even for GDR-subjects. You better didn't trespass there. generally, most steelworks have railroads, but they don't admit visitors. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:33 PM Thats a tricky question to me, the only railroad like that, would be the old Wisconsin & Southern tracks by my dads work terminal. On the way there, you drive over an old railroad crossing where the crossing is asphalted over. You can just barely see the tracks in the summer time because of the weeds and grass but the signs are still there. p.s. Wisconsin & Southern is still an operational railroad. Woo Hoo! Reply Edit espeefoamer Member sinceNovember 2003 From: West Coast 4,122 posts Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:21 PM There is a hotel in Industry,CA.that has an incline railway between the hotel and the golf course.There is a street behind the golf course where you can get a distant view of the railroad. Ride Amtrak. Cats Rule, Dogs Drool. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts The Most Secluded Railroad!!!! Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:16 PM What is the most secluded Railroad? A railroad that is very hard to see or photograph. A railroad that is so embedded into the wilderness that to see it, one must go searching. It could be active or abandoned. Pictures would be great! Reply Edit Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. 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QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken (3) Hawaii's surviving NG railroad/ tourist hauler
QUOTE: DRGW Marysville post Thistle
QUOTE: (13) What's left of the old ATSF SanJac (Perris, CA)
QUOTE: Originally posted by Dunkirkeriestation I would have to say the White Pass and Yukon,, Narrow gauge and does not connect to anything
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