larak wrote: We have one - the Hudson River west shore line has a long yard here on their main line.There used to be three other railroads that originated/ended here:the Ulster & Delaware, the Walkill Valley and part of the Ontario & Western. Ah the good old days. You get to guess which town this is. Shouldn't be too difficult.
We have one - the Hudson River west shore line has a long yard here on their main line.
There used to be three other railroads that originated/ended here:
the Ulster & Delaware, the Walkill Valley and part of the Ontario & Western. Ah the good old days.
You get to guess which town this is. Shouldn't be too difficult.
I model St. Johnsbury, VT circa 1975 due to the variety of railroads found in town.
First and foremost, because it is the primary railroad that I model, this is the Maine Central's most westerly terminus (thus the layout name "Maine Central's WEST END"). As well, running north/south through town between Montreal, QC and East Deerfield, MA are CP Rail/Boston & Maine pool power mainline trains. CP Rail also operates locals between Newport, St. Johnsbury and Wells River, VT. Lastly, from the west, the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad comes into town from Morrisville, VT to exchange traffic. I model that part of the Mountain Division between Whitefield, NH and St. Johnsbury, VT, including the paper mill in Gilman, VT and a newly added B&M branchline to the [1975] paper mill in Berlin. The rest of the traffic is operated from an 11 thru-track staging yard.
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Roanoke, Alabama where I live has a heavily traveled CSX main line which sees 20-25 trains per day most days of the week.
There is a long passing siding which runs through town also and up until just a year or so ago there was an old depot but it was destroyed by fire.
The old depot area is a great place for railfanning and several of us have been trying to get the city and CSX to let us build a railfan platform but no luck so far.
There is also plenty of run thru traffic powered by Union Pacific, BNSF, and occassionaly NS.
Loco4501
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loco4501 wrote: Roanoke, Alabama where I live has a heavily traveled CSX main line which sees 20-25 trains per day most days of the week.There is a long passing siding which runs through town also and up until just a year or so ago there was an old depot but it was destroyed by fire.The old depot area is a great place for railfanning and several of us have been trying to get the city and CSX to let us build a railfan platform but no luck so far.There is also plenty of run thru traffic powered by Union Pacific, BNSF, and occassionaly NS.Loco4501Joseph Navratil
Ah, you live on the CSX Lineville Sub--I'll be in that area Labor Day weekend at Callaway Gardens, and of course I already have plans of sneaking in some railfanning (shhhhhhhh...don't tell my family ). Jamie
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I live in a town of about 1,000 people. No traffic lights and if you use all of your fingers and a few of your toes you can count all of the stop signs. We do not have a gas station or convenience store. We are on a branch of the Union Pacific. The train comes through every day at about 11:00 AM. We used to be on the main line of the Utah and Idaho Central. It was an electric railway that ran freight and trolleys between Preston, Idaho and Ogden, Utah. The U&IC RR main line ran right down main street (right across the stree from my house). Our U&IC station still stands - fully restored; we use it for our city building.
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I live in solon ohio, 20 miles out of cleveland, about 50 years ago, the erie lackawanna, use to run from akron-canton to cleveland, picking up passengers going to work, the train would pass the house around 5:45am and return at 6:00pm in the evening heading back to akron canton, in downtown solon the "NKP" crossed the erie lackawanna it ran north an south, to this day have no idea where it went, about five years ago NS reopened the nkp lines and the W-LE, runs from solon down to akron, basicly switching industries, we call it the garbage train. At one time they where talking about opening up the lines for comuitor service but the people didn't want any kind of trains running around here.
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Here in coastal Ventura County we have the UP (ex SP) coast line:
As a little kid, I watched 4200's (AC's), 4400's (GS's), then black widow F7's, then
SP's boring bloody nose paint jobs.
Now it's UP armour yellow: The Leesdale every week day (LA to Oxnard and back), Oxnard switcher, VCY railway in Oxnard to the Port of Huemene,
lots of Amtrak and Metrolink commutes, Amtrak 11 and 14, and frieghts just when you are giving up and going home: lots of GE and EMD AC power. UP road freq. is 161.55 (FRA 96)-DIsp.73.
Metrolink dispatcher covers Moorpark to LA- freq. 160.55 (FRA 29)
Out where I live, the PRR/RDG used to go through. In fact, one railroad's main line went right down the middle of the main street! noe, the trail road is mostly around the outskirts but it still is active (NS). not more then five mins from the town is a CSX main.
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Here in Salt Lake City, we mostly have Union Pacific--with BNSF having trackage rights; but we also have the Utah Transit Authority (commuter rail/light rail), a new shortline called the Savage, Bingham & Garfield, another shortline called the Salt Lake, Garfield & Western, and the Utah Railway, which has evolved into a kind of regional railroad. Back in the day, of course, SLC was home to the Rio Grande and the Western Pacific.
My hometown (Henderson, Texas, population 11,000) was at the end of a 16-mile Missouri Pacific branchline. I used to get cab rides from the local crew all the time (mostly in GP38-2s, GP15s, and B23-7s). No doubt that's why I model the MoPac in East Texas, rather than the UP/BNSF in Salt Lake City.
NS2591 wrote:The CN Flint sub gets about 30 trains or so a day, And the CSX Saginaw Sub gets about 4 a day Those of you that aren't all boned up on Michigan history(Probably most of you no offense) The CN Flint sub runs East and West, Thats for former GTW Line through Flint(Not the old main, the new Main) Used to be really busy back in oh say, probably early 70's. Trains Ga-freaking-lore, we used to have a ton of business here too until GM started to pull out, Same goes for the CSX. They used to get a lot of traffic on the North South Saginaw sub, Buick City(If any one here owns a buick older than I think like '96 Chances are it is was built there) But with the closure of that plant and so many others here, CSX has dwindled to about 4 or so a day, and the CN line, While being the main East West for CN between Toronto & Chicago, only gets maybe 30 on a good day, they are usually Infrequent but long, they tend to be 120 or more and the move, Trackspeed is 60(I think) from Port Huron to Durand, at Durand it drops to 45 becuase of the diamonds and then returns to 60 west of town(Again I believe thats what it is)
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Where in the Flint area are you from? I live in Oxford and do most of my 'fanning at MP 290 (Lapeer) when I can get out. Heading down to either Deshler or Fostoria the Wednesday after Labor Day, though, for a one-day trip.
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You have any pictures? sounds like you live in a busy rail area!
Iow Inerstate RR on the ex Rock Island RR tracks going through Walcott Ia.
Single track now. other track is a siding now.
I live in Ft Wayne Indiana. It doesnt matter which way you travel out of Town you will hit a RR track At one time we had the NKP,Wabash, PRR, NYC, the Union Belt, and all of there subs. Like the GR&I, FFtW&W. I can rmrmber going with Grandma to pick Grandpa up at work and watching the Wabash flying by the parking lot back in 64'. Hummm the good old days.
Now its all NS with a sprinkling of C FtW and E with a little of CSX . KB
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BNSF with a fairly good size container operation.
Holland, MI has a line (CSX) running pretty much through the middle of town coming from the Chicago area to the south and going to the NE to Grand Rapids. Another line goes north to Muskegon and beyond which has heavy welded rail until just north of West Olive where the coal trains ( West Olive Turn) go off to the power plant at PortSheldon. North of that spur, it's still jointed rail up through Grand Haven and Muskegon. There is also a relatively short line going pretty much parallel to M-40 to Hamilton where it now dead ends. This line used to go all the way to Allegan. The last service on this line was to Hamilton Farm Bureau and I'm uncertain as to whether they still use the railroad.
We also have several spurs in town which served various industries at one time and still do some. One used to serve the Chris Craft Boats plant and a chemical plant across from the boat plant, another still serves the Heinz Pickle Factory, and a short one off that spur serves Padnos Iron and Metal, which also has it's own switcher, not sure , but I think it's an old GE.
The power plant at Port Sheldon hads it's own switchers, 2 GEs and one cow and calf set (I think, could be a slug).
It's hard to get pictures of any of those switchers as the facilities are fenced in and they are very security concious.
We also have the Padnos Transportation Center downtown which utilizes the old depot which I believe was originally built by the Pere Marquette railroad which serves MAX(our local bus line), Indian Trails Bus Line, local taxi service, and Amtrak's Pere Marquette which runs between Grand Rapids and Chicago.
Needless to say, 100 car unit coal trains are not very popular with local drivers, especially where a tight curve necessitates slow operation across one of the busier streets LOL .
There is also a small yard right at the confluence of those lines and spurs, called Waverly Yard, just north of town.
Town I live in is Kansas City KS, which has the BNSF transcon and the UP main. both have major yards, BNSF has the Argentine diesel shops.
Kansas City MO of course has the same plus ICE, KCS, NS, and some little short line/switching lines. Think I am leaving one out, but we do have a lot of activity. Oh, forgot Amtrak also, coming in on UP lines, and also on the BNSF.
Here I am in Sioux City, IA with a population of about 90,000. We have 3 main lines through here. The BNSF is the main one, UP second and the CN(IC-ICG-GT, etc). There are better than 20 trains a day in and out hauling coal, ethanol, and of course, grain.
Dick
Located on the former West Shore Line of the New York Central RR. Conrail, for a while, now CSX freight only. Single track (down from 3). At least 30 trains a day.
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When I was growing up from the late 40s and into the 70s, Lorain Oh had the Nickle Plate running East-West and the B & O running North - South, with an interchange right in downtown. I grew up watching passenger trains pulled by E units, and freights pulled by 2-8-4s at least till about 1958 or 1960,then being replaced mostly by Alco RS-11s. Although it seems the 0-6-0 was the predominant switcher for model railroading, the Lorain B & O yards were serviced by L 1 or 2 0-8-0s shunting carloads of Taconite for the local steel plant or for EM-1 Yellowstones to take South, after those big guys dropped strings of coal hoppers for loading onto ore boats by way of the lifting rotary dumper. In fact, until about 1961 or so, the B&O even had a car shop with a Bucyrus-Erie 200 t crane and supporting cars. South of town there was a roundhouse with at least 10 or 12 stalls and an elevated covered coaling dock. And the Steel Plant, which is still in business, has it's own Lake Terminal railroad with a number of EMD switchers and a couple oddball units interchanging mostly with what is now the Norfolk Southern. The former B & O yards are now a small Chessie stub that doesn't even make it to the former NKP, Now NS mainline. The former double tracked NKP used to cross the river on a gantleted swing bridge, but it is now single track with a center lift bridge.
It's also a shame that beautification efforts now have created a ridge that blocks the dumping of the slag ladles along one edge of the steel plant property. That used to be something to see. But, seems there are a lot of influential people are ashamed of the area's blue collar heritage.
And I still remember the day I went to the B&O yards to take pictures of the EM-1 2-8-8-4s, only to see some strange looking somethings. An A-B-A lashup, Baldwin RF-16s. Over the next couple years, the tac and coal loads were handled by Q class 2-8-2s, S-1 2-10-2s, I think a couple 4-8-2s, and switching eventually was handled by a couple SD-9s and GP-7s. Even one evening I was surprised to see a U class 0-10-0.
And in the mid 70s, one of the city parks got in the first 0-6-0s I had ever seen for display, and the nearby Avon Lake power plant replaced their fireless steam 0-6-0 with a diesel. The fireless is appparently now on display in Bellview, Oh.Sorry for rampling. Senior Moment. (or half hour)
ARVADA Co. I've got the BNSF Golden sub (ex Colorado and Southern) to my immediate south (less than 1/2 a block) and the UP (ex Rio Grande) to my north maybe 1/4 to 1/2 a mile. both are busy. Golden sub serve Coors and I've seen Geeps on up to SD70aces. occasionaly they still use a caboose.