This is about a mile from my house, a branch line that comes into to town a couple of times a week to serve the sole surviving rail customer in Cambridge...
The NS Delmarva Sub is about 45 minutes away.
And this...
...is in my attic!
Lee
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I'm about 2 miles from the old Pasadena Line. I actually don't know the name of the line I just know that it used to go into Pasadena. BNSF uses the tracks daily for the Local to service the Miller Brewery in Irwindale and a few other industries. A lot of well cars are stored past that on the tracks. I guess they are going to rebuild most of the tracks from Pasadena back my way for a light rail service called the Gold Line. The only thing exciting besides the daily local is the annual City of Hope Passenger Train where BNSF takes the cancer children for a ride on the first Sunday in December. Sadly, I have never seen that train since I am always at church.
When I am at work in Anaheim, Metrolink, Amtrak Surfliner and the UP Local pass by right behind our back wall. So I get to see trains all day long. I just wish I had some more freight to see.
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Roughly 5 miles from a branch line of the Ohio Central which was bought by another railroad about a year ago. I don't know if they are still running under the OC flag. It was a former B&O branchline that used to run as far as Sandusky I think but now it terminates in Mt. Vernon, OH, about 12 miles from my house. At most, one train a day goes from Newark up to Mt. Vernon and back. I think grain elevators are its only customers.
I grew up in the early '60s in a house that loooks down on the Groton wye. From our large kitchen window I could look out and watch seemingly endless freight trains (New Haven, soon to be Penn Central). As a teen my freinds and I would walk north along the tracks toward the sub base and collect items like spikes, glass insulators, caboose lantern chimneys (NYNH&HRR). Wish I still had them.. and taken photos of it all.
About 200 ft from the CSX main that runs from Ashtabula south to Pittsburgh I can watch trains from the end of my driveway, I can hear them about a mile away here in Brookfield, Ohio.
I'm about 1 1/2 miles from the now defunct Northwest Pacific RR track. About 10 miles down the road is where the GP7's and 9's are "stored". There hasn't been any rail traffic since 1996/7, and the locomotives are slowly rusting away.
Currently about 2 miles from UP tracks that were old WP line, aproximately 6 miles from the Roseville, CA- UP yard. I grew up 5 blocks from KCS and about nine blocks from The DeQuincy Depot in Louisiana.
About 8 blocks north is the CN mainline through North Langley, including VIA. About 25 blocks south east is the CP line to Roberts Bank for container and coal trains.
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You have an electrical problem!
About a mile from my house.
BNSF, UP and Amtrack
About 4 miles to the tracks of the Essex Steam Train (all that is left of the REAL Valley RR), although the train doesn't actually come that far North anymore; it stops in Deep River, a few miles to the south.
Another 10 miles brings us to the Shore Line (Amtrak, Shore Line East, and Providence and Worcester, on a good day).
My office is right across from the "Y" in Groton where they used to turn trains. Can watch traffic on the shore line all day!
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We're five miles north of the NS(x-RDG)line between Reading and Harrisburg. Busy freight line with a rare Amtrak visit (so I've been told) when the old Pennsy mainline isn't available. On calm evenings we can hear the horns and sometimes even the rumble of five big locos pulling a mile of coal.
Here in the suburbs north of Philly, I live less than a mile from the commuter rail line, formerly the Reading, now SEPTA. Lots of commuter trains on the 2-track electrified line, a work train now and then, but no freights. And I ride that train every work day.
Cisco Kid So I guess you could say there are practical reasons to say too close is too close, especially before laying out $700,000 after taxes and all.
So I guess you could say there are practical reasons to say too close is too close, especially before laying out $700,000 after taxes and all.
Out my way there is a lot of NIMBY anti-railroad sentiment (present party excluded). The UP has used the former SP Mococo Line for car storage and now wants to reopen it for regular traffic. The newly-suburbanized communities there now are objecting. Same thing on reopening part of the former Northwestern Pacific Line in Marin County (This is even when Marin folk pride themselves on their green-ness. They want us to return to the horse-and-buggy days so they can then object to the growing horse manure problem.) Other communities object to train-horn blowing accompanying resurgent train traffic. Golly gee. If one doesn't like uninvited train sounds, don't move to a railroad environment. Same for those people who don't like floods but move to a flood plain while expecting us to pay for their rebuilding and protective dikes.
About a 1/4 mile from a branch of the wheeling and lake erie and about a half mile from the yard office here in medina ohio. About 15 minutes from the main line of csx and a half hour from a main line that runs through my buddys home town that I see union pacific, norforl southern, csx on.
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The back of my property is about 200 ft. from the old Regina to Saskatoon (CN) ROW. It has been
inactive for a number of years and only used in the winter time to store some covered hoppers, (grain).
But now that a portion of this line has been leased to a short line operator ( Last Mountain Railroad). They named it after my MRR. we should see a little more action on it again.
When it was operating back a while ago the movements were usually at 5:00 in the morning and 5:00 in the afternoon. Looking forward to see how it shakes out this time.
Johnboy out......................
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We used to live about an 1/8th mile from the ex NKP Bellevue to Buffalo main line, then 100 yards north of that was the double track ex NYC waterlevel route, so lots of trains there. Where we live now, we are 5 blocks from the embargoed ex NKP IMC Tipton to Kokomo line, so grown over you cant even look down the track, but the track is intact and the grade crossing lights remain, just turned away from traffic. The Cloverleaf District of the NKP goes thru Kokomo and is a couple miles to the north of our house, shortline uses it a few times a week. We also had the PRR thru Kokomo, what remains of the line from Kokomo to Logansport is also operated by a shortline a couple times a week or more depending on traffic. Mike
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Ok, here's the thing.
I live about 100 yards from the CN line of the old BC Rail. This is only lightly used (6 or fewer trains per 24 hours) and right now the engineers are on strike so there is no traffic at all.
However, my wife and I are looking at a new house on the market that is only 30 yards from the same line.
While I love to watch the line and it gives me no problem at the present distance, I have resisted buying the brand new house so close to the line. I know I could stand it, but I am sure the house would shake, especially the way they are build up on fill.
I don't think the resale value would be very high among any but railfans. And there is no guarantee the line won't get real busy in the next 20 years.
From my home in the west suburbs of St. Louis, MO, it's 10 miles south to the UP's ex-MP Jefferson City Subdivision and the BNSF's ex-Frisco Cuba Subdivision as they pass through Kirkwood, MO. It's also about 5 miles northeast to the Central Midland Railway's ex-Rock Island St. Louis to Kansas City line, about 10 miles northwest to the NS's ex-Wabash line from St. Louis to Mexico, MO, and Kansas City and about 20 miles northwest to the BNSF "K" Line (ex-CB&Q St. Louis to West Quincy, MO, via Hannibal).
Bill
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I'm about a mile and a half from the ATSF (now BNSF mainline). This crossing of Morello Blvd., Martinez, CA is the closest public access for me. The bridge crosses the middle of the road's "S" curve, and accommodates a tunneled pedestrian/bicycle pathway. Although only a single track, the bridge abutments were built to accommodate a siding, but I'm not aware whether there ever was one. It is adjacent to "my" local winery: Viano, the only one remaining of many that once existed in the county. There were many before Prohibition, and now there's just one.
Mark
I live about 150 feet away from the Bremen - Hamburg main line. The line sees about 150 trains a day. In winter, I can see the trains from my living room window. I am glad, that German trains do not blow their horns or ring the bells that often ... .
I live just off of Second Street in West Chester (Maud) with First Street being a double main of Norfolk Southern (the old CCC&StL Big Four - NYC line) out of the Sharonville Yard. Needless to say it has been and still is very active.
nearest rail lines here are abandoned, one is an interurban line roughly a mile away, and regular line about a mileish away. Active line maybe 5 miles. Of course there is the active one in the basement.
I live roughly 1 mile (as the crow flies) from the Northeast Corridor (AMTRAK) in Bristol, PA
Sam
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In a straight line about a 1/8th of a mile to the Rail Link's Commonwealth Railroad. There are no scheduled trains as far as I can tell. There is a lot of construction of new and rerouted tracks to handle container trains from Portsmouth, Va to Suffolk, Va. I see mostly Commonwealth locomotives but have also seen NS locomotives.
In the other direction, less than two miles, the CSX and NS can be seen. I have also spied a Conrail loco or two.
When in the yard I can hear the horns as the trains go by.
Bob
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A 10-minute drive to the Southern Pacific line that runs on the west side of Kingwood, Texas.
For me, it's a 19 mile drive to I-40 on U.S.95 North. From the overpass, you can see the BNSF hugging the old Route 66 on its way to the Arizona - California border which crosses the Colorado River at Topock, Arizona.
It really is an impressive sight to see that long string of cars heading west.
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