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the L&N used to pass the wsm radio station and the sound of the whistle came in over their brodcast. so every afternoon at a certain time they would blow the whistle.I dont think the radio sation does that anymore.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
I live only a block from the Ellis & Eastern's mainline, and I can always tell from which direction they are coming. I can usually hear the rumble of the engines even before the engineer blows the airhorns for the 14th St. crossing. Oftentimes when I am on my way home from running errands in the downtown area and I can hear them in the far off distance, I will wait for them midway between 14th St. and the old Rock Island bridge which spans the Sioux River. It has almost become something of a ritual to me.
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JoeK failed to mention that it was the sound of the L&N's flagship southbound Pan American that was broadcast daily to area radio listeners.
Mark
BNSF's main line into the northwest side of Houston.
Former Fort Worth and Denver, (joint Rock Island and CB&Q).
Inbound Casey Yard Transfer run to PTRA...
I get to listen to my work heading to ....well, my work!
05:30 sharp every morning, seven days a week.
If I leave when they hit the crossing at 43rd street, I can beat them to North Yard by an hour at least.
Ed
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Right now I live in a Residence Inn that overlooks directly a 25-train-a-day main line plus a major light-rail line. I asked for a room on the railroad side, and they sure looked at me funny.
Sounds great, because the Class I is working up a heavy grade with mostly loads.
RJ
"Something hidden, Go and find it. Go and look behind the ranges, Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go." The Explorers - Rudyard Kipling
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miniwyo wrote:No, I can't do that. I live along the UP line.......
I can't neither as I live along the busy 4 track mainline from Rotterdam Central to Dordrecht here in the Netherlands. However, in the evenings, 10 minutes before the hour (say between 20.00 pm and 2.00 am) a freighttrain comes along and starts braking while on it's way to the harbor or Kijfhoek hump yard. I haven't timed other trains recently.but there are plenty of passenger and a growing number of freighttrains....
When it is leaves on the ground time of the year I have a front row seat too.
greetings,
Marc Immeker
Way, way back, when I was in junior high school, I walked about a mile to school (uphill both ways, but that's a different tale). During the 20 minutes of my walk, I could almost always expect three northbound C&O freights to come through town, essentially running on each other's markers.
One might have been a southbound, though - I really don't recall. There is a passing siding about three miles north of the village. Regardless - they were almost always there.
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I live a few blocks away from the tracks that the SDIV and MTS trolley run on (now owned by the transit authority). The freight can't run when the trolleys are running so the freight only runs at night (really fustrateing for picture takeing). So on nights that the SDIV runs from San Diego down to San Yisidro yard the train leaves after the last trolley gets off the line. You can't quite set your watch by it but it passes by my house between 2:10-2:20am. The return trip passes by around 4:00am.
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Mookie wrote:I can hear Amtrak perfectly from our closet duplex. I set my watch by it every day! I also show up at work at different times each day!
I'd like to see the look on your boss's face when you explain that you were late because Amtrak was.
Weird! I hope you don't also have a bathroom duplex, that would be awkward.
1435mm wrote: Right now I live in a Residence Inn that overlooks directly a 25-train-a-day main line plus a major freight-rail line. I asked for a room on the railroad side, and they sure looked at me funny.
Right now I live in a Residence Inn that overlooks directly a 25-train-a-day main line plus a major freight-rail line. I asked for a room on the railroad side, and they sure looked at me funny.
My last visit to Steamboat Springs, Colo. included an overnight stay at the Rabbit Ears Motel located downtown. On one side of the complex is a set of rooms that face both the Yampa River and the U.P. (nee DRGW) Moffat extension to Craig. Those rooms were $10/night extra because of the river view.
When I told the motel clerk that I wasn't at all interested in view the river view but I wanted a room that faced the tracks she said, "Hmmm, you must be a railfan. For railfans that'll be $20 extra because you're getting the tracks and the river as an added bonus!"
AS FOR LOOKING AT YOU FUNNY, I got the same reaction while checking in at Fitzgerald's Club in downtown Reno three years ago. The place is located on Virginia St. right at the U.P. (nee Espee) mainline crossing. While very nice and accomdating, the lady behind the desk gave me a puzzled look and a "humor him" smile when I too asked for a room facing The Overland Route mainline. I was mildly surprised that she didn't charge me extra for such a superior location within the hotel.
"Being a member of the railfan fraternity is a mental condition where to the initiated, no explanation is necessary; but, to the unintiated, no explanation is possible."
Kevin C. Smith wrote:There is a northbound CN train that gets to Green Bay at just about 3:00pm weekdays. The problem is, if I'm a little late and it is too, I get caught at the crossing for the better part of ten minutes. Since my job is just across the tracks (and river), I call and tell them they'll see me in the door two minutes after they don't see the train anymore!
I work a few blocks from the main line through town. If anyone ever questions why you were late getting anywhere, all you have to do, is shrug your shoulders and "rock train". Everybody knows what you mean.
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