I grew up with the ACY in my backyard in Akron, Ohio but there is ONLY the Blue Line running to Los Angeles in Long Beach, CA!
I'm right on the northeast corridor and near the Trenton N.J./ Morrisville Pa. stations and train yrds. Commuter lines of Jersey as well as a double decker (though I don't know where it serves). To Philly commuters and of course Amtrak and the Acela go sprinting by. The train yrd located on the Pa. side is quite a site at night; trains lined up, lights aglow, side by side of about 10 or more sets of rails and maybe in strings of 4-8 cars. All just waiting for the AM rush to begin.
Plenty of frieght and my favorite of those is the Staley plant cars. Staley processes corn syrup and I see quite often soft drink tanker trucks, (such as Coke), hauling away from the yrd. The Staley cars will cause some traffic jams as they traverse through Morrisville crossing 3 city roadways.
Must be quite a switching task getting everyone to where their going.
cooltech
If you are going to be in the callaway gardens area then to really see alot of rail action take hwy 27 north to Lagrange GA which becomes Hamilton Road in LaGrange and at the light where 27 turns to your right at the junction of hwy 219 (whitesville Rd) go straight across and the main line will be approx 1/8 mile ahead, just as you cross the tracks there is the old depot parking lot on your right. This is just before the Altlanta to Montgomery and the Manchester to Montgomery lines split to go to Bham Al. I have railfanned there many many times and have seen as many as 30 trains during daylight hours.
Have fun & be safe
loco4501
Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.
Daniel G.
Unfortuantely i dont... since i go to college elsewhere i dont get much time back home. i might after spring break though.
Chessie HO and SP N in Collegehttp://collegerailroad.blogspot.com/
Isn't the concept of a railroad to go from one town to another, as in connecting various settlements, it would seem strange for a railroad to get close to a town then skirt around and avoid going near the town.
The idea of a train going in a town and then out of town again sounds actually quite practical.
super cheif n how many people here have train line that goes in and out of there town.(not including little passenger lines) my town has like 1 main line going in and out it. hopefully one day i plan to do a module on my down town part with the movie theater as the main focus(n scale)
how many people here have train line that goes in and out of there town.(not including little passenger lines)
my town has like 1 main line going in and out it. hopefully one day i plan to do a module on my down town part with the movie theater as the main focus(n scale)
Little town of Sodus, MI, there were 2 lines, first was an interurban/streetcar line, Benton Harbor St Joseph & Light, ran north/south to my west near the river, long abandoned, bikeriding I found a spike nailed into a post near where it ran. Further north it crossed the road, and after abandonement it was just paved over the ties minus rail, time went the ties rotted and lefted a lumpy drive over them. Rumor is a local Campsite operation had some of the carbodies as rentals to live in, but now it has built housing, but that business is gone now.
2nd is the Michigan Central branch I believe that ran from South Bend to BH/SJ, abandoned several years now, some of it bike trailed I think. This line unique where down in Niles there was a triple overpass, of it, the MC (amtrak now) main, and the Northern Indiana interurban which had a branch to Benton Harbor. There is a pic of this in one of the books I have around here, searched online if any, none yet.
NS yard, multimodal (container) facility, and Amtrak station in the city of Charlotte, NC, where I live now.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCC&cp=35.240451~-80.820739&style=a&lvl=15&tilt=-90&dir=358.99867937325&alt=2694.8170160763&cam=35.240451~-80.820739&scene=21382234&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
Lackawanna, later Erie Lackawanna, yard in downtown Binghamton, NY. The city where I was born and raised.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCC&cp=42.104803~-75.903203&style=a&lvl=17&tilt=-38.3002405599971&dir=359.775559442653&alt=1245.01509831846&cam=42.090503~-75.902718&scene=24184316&phx=-0.573550211998335&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
D&H Yard right at the Binghamton city line.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCC&cp=42.087093~-75.847698&style=h&lvl=15&tilt=-89.9999800136714&dir=9.59262226416392&alt=3127.75420688838&cam=42.087093~-75.847698&scene=24184502&phx=0.157740533859856&phy=0.157330050193871&phscl=1.45883898304845&encType=1
Callicoon, NY in the Catskills. A town I used to live in. Erie, later Erie Lackawanna, double track main line right through the center of town.
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCC&cp=41.764159~-75.065665&style=a&lvl=17&tilt=-41.8211062436264&dir=9.47618792620671&alt=1247.12837256119&cam=41.754813~-75.058367&scene=26597013&phx=0.276753840876913&phy=-0.433866780437853&phscl=4.89778819368446&encType=1
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
The line in and out my town is still standing there... Montmorency Subdivision of the Quebec Railway Light and Power. Almost everything that could remember there was railroad activities there was wiped out by our "dear" Canadian National: the station, the sidings, the stone crushers, the 3 littles wharves, the mile post and the flag stop. I was living on a hill about 1.5 miles from the track and could only see the train with a cheap telescope in a curve about 5 miles further. I enjoyed when the train was passing by the school during recreation times. It's crazy how this not so far away time miss me (1986 to 1993), when seeing a train was a big event and the guy in the caboose did wave the hand. When we lost our caboose, it's like if the wailway died a little bit, losing a part of its inhabitant. There was aout 4 trains back then, with 60 to 100 cars pulled by a pair of M420.
And yes, I do dream of building the village with it's interurban cars, electric box cabs and pilgrims trains i when I get the place. When I got 18 back in college, I bought myself a C424 from Atlas and kitbashed it in a M420. At the time, you could find nothing on the market and had to do many pieces.
Matt
Proudly modelling the Quebec Railway Light & Power Co since 1997.
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Like, down main street where the road is shared by automobiles and trucks with pedestrian sidewalks shops and all?
Because of the research I needed to do so I can be reasonably authentic with the location my model railway will run through I do know that railroad tracks in the middle of the road appeared in St Petersburg and Tarpon Springs, Florida. I like this feature and I plan on including the SAL curbside depot as part of my layout. It's an interesting modeling opportunity.
Bruce
Ok, I have had the NYC, PRR and CIRwy here in Anderson IN. That changed and became the PR and CI and then the Conrail and CIW (Central Indiana & Western). Now it's the CSX, NS and CIW. Hmmm, I guess that you could say that the railroads are fairly healthy here. :-)
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I now live just south of Cleveland, where we have NS, CSX, W&LE and Newburgh and South Shore.
I grew up in Toledo, OH where we had the Toledo Terminal, Detroit & Toledo Shoreline, Detroit, Toledo and Ironton, Wabash, Nickle Plate Road, C&O, B&O, NYC, PRR, Ann Arbor, Ohio Pulic Service, Toledo, Angola & Western. The Toledo Terminal is the perfect Model Railroad, it is an oval that connects with all the above railroads.
I also lived in Denver with the BN, DRGW, ATSFand Up and Alaska with the ARR.
Regards
Rick
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Good thread. It was interesting to see that there was already a post about where I currently live (Holland, MI), with CSX tracks running north, south and east, as well as spurs. I recently discovered that we have a wye right in the middle of town. It's not obvious because it's tucked inbetween the north and south parts of town and is bisected by a river and wetlands, but the wye stands out on Google Earth. Our local switcher derailed twice recently in the center of my primary commute artery (by the old Chris Craft plant) which resulted in the road being torn up for a month to replace the sharply radiused spur crossing the road.
I model south west St. Louis, MO, where my wife and I grew up. My inlaws lived until recently in Oakland, MO (St. Louis suburb) right next to the BNSF main. At that point, the UP main is only 1/4 mile north of BNSF. Both are double tracked, with the UP getting about twice as much traffic as BNSF(about 1-2 trains per hour for UP, I think). The UP also hosts Amtrack, which runs through St. Louis city, makes a local stop at Kirkwood, and on to points west. The Kirkwood station (former Mopac) is a nicely preserved stone structure and is still used for it's original purpose.
My little burg has one line going through it. It was a branch of the old B&O and most recently was part of the Ohio Central system. Last year, it was announced the Ohio Central was being sold to another railroad whose name I can't remember. The sale was contingent on state approval. It will be interesting to see if the line survives. A portion of it about 10 miles to the north was abandoned a few years ago and there was talk of abandoning the whole branch until the state provided some money to improve the track. The only purpose of the branch is to serve a few grain elevators. At most, one train a day will go up and back down the line.
My home town was Enid Oklahoma, probably around 36,000 when I was growing up. Had a Rock Island north/south main line, a Frisco east/west mainline, a branch line, going southwest, and the Santa Fe Enid district, from Guthrie to Kiowa KS., big grain hauling route. My dad was one of the switch engine engineers for Santa Fe in Enid. All the lines are still in operation today, although under different names now. UP replaced Rock, BNSF replaced Frisco and Santa Fe, and Grainbelt/Farmrail slipped in on the branch lines. Wheat harvest, last of May through June was a big deal as Enid was third largest in US in storage capacity, plus there was a Champlin refinery.
After college I came to the Kansas City area via Topeka Ks in the 60's and Kansas City metro from 1970 to the present. Won't even begin to talk about railroads around KC.
Bob