There was a train running entirely within the state of Michigan with an extremely unlikely-sounding name, a name shared by a number of other railroads with somewhat more sense in the choice. When did it run, and between what nominal endpoints?
Bonus if you can find pictures of the motorcar service connecting at the east end, and tell where it went.
I am having trouble with researching any kind of sensible question, so anyone with something interesting, go ahead in the meantime.
HistoricBridges.org has a gallery of images:
HistoricBridges.org - Sarah Mildred Long Bridge Photo Gallery
Rail movements across the new bridge are rare, usually steel in and DODX fuel transport cars.
It is not as unusual as the original 1937 bridge, which had a more conventional double-deck arrangement in the lift span for road over rail BUT featured a retractable section near one end for 'recreational' traffic which was kept open; this actually lifted and rolled on the railroad rails, which is an arrangement I've never seen described anywhere else.
Incidentally, it was an accident during the construction of this bridge that put B&M 3666 in the river, where it was carefully documented as 'found' a few years ago...
The new bridge indeed has a lighter main span (and higher free opening when lifted) by the simple expedient of fixing running rails in the road deck, and closing the bridge to road traffic as if for a boat crossing when a train needs to use the track.
Wow! Thasnks! Is there any other bridge like that anywhere else in the World? Can someone post a photo?
The Eastern via Portsmouth was used for a few through trains until the early 1950s. The Manchester and Portsmouth had daily Gas-Electric and mixed train service until the late 1950s. The line was more-or-less intact until the mid 1980s, when rail was removed between East Manchester and Rockingham Jct. The remaining rail between Manchester and East Machester came out in the early 2000s. CSX continues to operate the remainder into Portsmouth, with stubs of the old Eastern north to the shipyard in Kittery ME and south a couple of miles to serve a few customers. The line to Kittery operates over the recently replaced Sarah Mildred Long bridge. When movemets are made to the shipyard, the lift bridge's deck is lowered to rail level from its normal position at highway level.
Sorry for memory mishap thast substituted "Beverly" for N. Berwick, but--
in 1950 the Eastern was still used between bPortsmouthg and N. Berwick.
The track from Portsmouth that is still used for freighgt had a gas-or-diesel-elecdtric doodlecug that continueed weswt to Nashua, p;ossibly continuing to Manchester and posssibly Concord or even Plymouth.
The former Eastern Railroad (which included the Beverly Branch) runs entirely to the east of the Boston & Maine (Western Route), which the Eastern crossed in North Berwick, Maine. From there to Scarborough, just south of Portland, the line ran to the west of the B&M. From Scarborough into Portland both routes shared track under various arrangements until the Eastern was absorbed completely by the B&M. Some through trains were routed via Portsmouth as late as 1950, but even those used the original B&M rather than the former Eastern. The B&M shed lots of branches in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including the former Eastern between North Berwick and Scarborough.
The "Eastern" was west of vtghe "Western" only north of Beverly. perhaps brefore WWI. The track bvetween P:olrtsmouth and Bevcerly remained into 1950 or 19512. I then had a girlfriend living in Lynn, and after a date one evenhing, saw her off at Noirth Station ojn a trasin through to Portland, with one of the tenb Pullman Standard LD coachnes with reclinuing seats, thev other coasches being Amnericasn Flyers.
Winter of 1952-1953, when I regularly rode GP-7s 1567 and 1568, Boston - P:ortsmouth on the c4pm passenger and returnedc on the nhighgt Portsmouth - Sommerville vYard freight, sane e3ngine vcrew cand locomotive, the link nfrom Portsmjouth to nBeverly waw gone. The branch between Portsmouit west to the Main Line remains.
B&M acquired the Eastern RR by lease and then by purchase by 1890. Most of the Eastern was built to lower standards than the Boston & Main main line, which became the Western Main Line. The Eastern is still operated by the T as far as Newburyport MA, and some bits remain around Portsmouth NH. The Western Main Line, which was relabelled the Freight Main Line at some point, has passenger service over its entire length, by the T south of Wilmington, by Amtrak and the T between Wilmington and Haverhill MA, and by Amtrak to Portland. Appears to be the CSX Portland Sub north of Haverhill, which is where the T's ownership ends.
On to you, Overmod.
B&M Boston-Portland, including the site of that awful wreck at Revere in 1871 (on the Eastern)...
Overmod Central Vermont and CNE?
Central Vermont and CNE?
Further east...
Mr. Klepper... try New Haven.
C&NW did have two routes between Chicago and Milwaukee, both largely intact today, but the freight line to the west of the passenger route was built by C&NW and did not result from a merger.
The Eastern route I'm looking for was known as the Eastern even before the merger. It was leased first, then merged into the company that owned the Western Route, all of which took place before 1900. All of the remaining Eastern route is east of the Western Route.
C &NW between Chicago and Milwaukee?
The Western Route got its name because it left its southern city to the left - or west - of the Eastern route, which was already named so before the merger. The two crossed about halfway betweern the two endpoint cities. Passenger service is offered today on all but a short portion of the Western route, and the southern third of the Eastern route.
CSSHEGEWISCHI am going to say that the road in question is Seaboard Coast Line.
rcdrye Since I got no response to the last question... By merger this railroad ended up with an "Eastern Route" and "Western Route" between its two major cities. For part of the distance the "Eastern Route" ran to the west of the "Western Route". Only one of the two routes remains today as a through route.
Since I got no response to the last question...
By merger this railroad ended up with an "Eastern Route" and "Western Route" between its two major cities. For part of the distance the "Eastern Route" ran to the west of the "Western Route". Only one of the two routes remains today as a through route.
But please give us the answer vto your unanswered question. Thanks!
Bumping this thread up.
While I'll take West Bridge Junction as an answer, the "station" sign on the former SP Sunset Route says "Westwego" (West Bridge Jct is in Westwego LA!)
Indeed it does. The interchange point between NOPB and SP is West Bridge Junction.
The name of the New Orleans Public Belt's Junction with the SP Sunset Route says it all.
I gave lots of hints, and the vedry obvious answer is loop operation, most unusual for a Class One. This allowed multiple services on the Over-the-Bay Line:
Penn. Sta. - Penn Sta. Clockwise and couterclockwise.
Atlanic (Brooklyn) Term. - Atlantic Term. clockwise and counterclockwise
Penn. Sta. - Atlantic Term. cl9ockwise and counter., and the reverse of each/
Additionally were Atalantic Term. and Penn. Sta. to and from Rockawat Park
Summers saw some service from Penn Sta. to and from Rockaway Park via Valley Stream and Far Rockaway, the long way around, not over the Bay.
Somromr rlse please ask the next question.
Possibly operation of the New York Central - Bostan and Albany Highland Branch (until conversion the the "D" Green-Line Light-Rail) and even the Elevated in downtown Chicago can be considered smaller-scale examples?
Is not it unusual, after going from A to B, to rerturtn to A by boarding a train at B going in the same direction as the train that you left when arriving at B?
So what does that say about what was unusual?
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