What's your favorite railroad spot or railroad line?

[southpennrailroad]

 
The South Pennsylvania Railroad and a great exploration access for me is on the Pennsylvania Turnpike between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Latrobe, and Connellsville and even Ohio Pyle and Confluence. For a railroad that was never completed it is my only interest as to how this line would have impacted our area. I often tell others had it been completed I would have no interest in railroads at all. With all the detailed maps I have I have been exploring this route for the past 14 years looking for all things drawn on them. This includes farm houses, barns, creeks, bridges, tunnels and all things drawn by the railroad on their maps.

 

This link on trains shows a lot of what I have been doing. enjoy. It begins as a topic of one thing but eventually gets into the South Penn moderator Ok'ed the hijack as this is part of the beginning opening but was worth the stay and change by him to a different topic but slightly relaited. 

 

http://cs.trains.com/forums/1/783723/ShowPost.aspx#783723 

[bigboy50]

I would say the New York Central's water level route. Well, I guess maybe we should call it Amtrak's water level route now.

[al-in-chgo]

I guess the Folkston Funnel in extreme southeastern Georgia.  Almost always very busy with freight of all kinds, even manifest, and gets three Amtraks a day:  Silver Meteor, Silver Star, and AutoTrain.  Also Tropicana (fresh orange) juice train, though I've yet to see it myself. 

 

[Packers#1]

There's this one spot in downtown aiken. It is basically this huge hill that the Railroad just cut straight through. Let's put it this way: I think the land extends past the top of GP50 on the rails. There are several bridges over it, and the first one (which we just so happen to drive over to get to school) Is this wierd one. It rises, tops flat, then falls down. let em go to paint real quick and make a schematic of it.

Rough sketch of bridge:

[dorfantiques]

The stretch of former RF&P (now CSX) between Doswell and Ashland, VA. Constant action with CSX, some NS and Buckingham Branch (at Doswell), Amtrak and Auto Train. You basically cannot run the two mile stretch between the north end of Ashland at Randolph-Macon College and the small Baptist Church at the south end of town without seeing a new headlight. The old RF&P Main Line splits Main Street down the middle, and the station and interlocking tower (now o/s) at Doswell make this area a real winner. Would be a shame if the plans ever come to fruition to reroute traffic over the old C&O between Doswell and Richmond, thereby bypassing this bit of interesting trackage.  

[Great Western]

Mine is the Milwaukee Road's pacific extension. Just love all those trestles and tunnels.

 

I agree and would have loved to see The Little Joe's at work  

 

[nickinwestwales]

Plenty of good spots in the old country-what do you want ?-Dawlish in Devon where you can do your spotting lounging on the beach or eating an ice-cream on a bench on the sea-wall img{}/img Or perhaps North Wales where they have gorgeous little steam engines winding through the trees... img{}/img My favourite would have to be:-anywhere in Ireland,50 years ago img{}/img Well-it works for me............... A.T.B  Nick

[Packers#1]

Nick:

lol, I have both Welsh and Irish blood in me.

[al-in-chgo]

Plenty of good spots in the old country-what do you want ?-Dawlish in Devon where you can do your spotting lounging on the beach or eating an ice-cream on a bench on the sea-wall img{}/img Or perhaps North Wales where they have gorgeous little steam engines winding through the trees... img{}/img My favourite would have to be:-anywhere in Ireland,50 years ago img{}/img Well-it works for me............... A.T.B  Nick

Please remind me what side of the Isle Devon is on?    - a.s.

 

[nickinwestwales]

Al-Hi !-Right,slightly weird description ,but roll with me here-looking at a map of Britain try and see it as somebody sitting in an armchair seen from the left in profile--still with me ??-well Devon is the bit between the waist and the knees,more or less-has both N&S facing coastlines with some fairly bleak moorland between-Dawlish is on the south coast,between Exeter & Plymouth--well worth a visit if you are ever over here A.T.B Nick

[Los Angeles Rams Guy]

My favs:

(1) By far and away the former MILW mainline between Samoa (Sabula, IA.) and River Jct. (La Crescent, MN.) now belonging to the ICE and soon to become part of my employer, Canadian Pacific, again.  The River running and street running in both Bellvue and Lansing are awesome and the little River hamlets are neat as well.

(2) The CN's Iowa Division (ex IC/ICG/CC) between Dubuque and Waterloo but also like NW Illinois as well.

(3) The UP's (ex-CNW) "Overland Route" mainline and the CN's Iowa Division mainline between Denison and Missouri Valley/Council Bluffs that parallel each other.     

[Fadingechos]

My Favorite railroad spot is Station Road right here at home.

 http://s333.photobucket.com/albums/m388/class_for_cats/?action=view&current=HPIM2394.jpg

The tracks have been removed and the.  Trains never leaves town.

[Great Western]

I am totally biased of course but the seven miles from Paignton to Kinswear (opposite the ancient Port of Dartmouth) tales some beating.  For the first part of the jouney to the iintermediate summit station of Churston (where I am often to be found) countryside and sea are the views.  The drop down to river level is again countryside, woods and a very beautiful river and estuary.

Incidentally the train passes in a tunnel beneath the home of the late Agatha Christie of "who dunnit fame".