Represent your.....subdivisions!

[Anonymous]

Norfolk Southern Piedmont Division, Columbia District.

[Anonymous]

i live right off the BNSF Cuba sub. not far from the junction with the Thayer sub in Springfield MO.

[Anonymous]

IN DOWNERS GROVE IT'S THE BN 3 TRACK MAIN TO AUROARA LIVE ABOUT 3 MI FROM IT

[Anonymous]

I live about three miles east of the CN (old IC) main line that runs through Champaign, IL, and I work for CSX on the Woodland subdivision

[Noah Hofrichter]

I'm about a Mile from MP191on the Wisconsin and Southern's Reedsburg Sub. Unfortunately this is the end of the line which means we only get about 2 trains a week and some times only 1 [V][V][:(][

Noah[:-^][swg][:P][8D][:P][swg]

[enr2099]

I live about a mile from the abandoned CN Cowichan Subdivision in Sooke, BC and about 15 miles from the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Victoria Subdivision in Victoria, BC.

[espeefoamer]

I live within hearing distance of SANTA FEs third district.[8D] I have to move next week, and will live along the Big Yellow BORGs main line.[:(][:(!][xx(]

[jeaton]

I live about three blocks away from the WSOR branch that runs through Delavan to Elkhorn. Part of the late, great CMStP&P. Almost daily service with maybe one to three cars coming through. I'll have to wait for the up-coming (in 2520) Delavan Trackside Guide to get the sub-division name.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by railpac

I live about 3/4 mile from the BNSF River Sub. which is also known as the classic FRISCO River Line (recently noted in the March 2004 issue of TRAINS magazine, pages 22 & 23). I railfan at MP 12.5 on the River Sub. sometimes. I can hear the trains blow for a crossing about a mile and a half from my house at night.

I'm, as Railpac knows, also a BNSF River Sub guy. Live less than a mile from the sub and hear trains constantly grinding up the hill out of Lindenwood Yard. Railfanning from my house is great. It's a very short drive to the BNSF River Sub, the BNSF Springfield Sub, the UP DeSoto Sub & Oak Hill Branch, the UP Jeff City Sub.

Mark

[coalminer3]

C&O - Hinton Division - Piney Creek Sub-Division

work safe

[Anonymous]

Mark,
the St. Louis Hotspot list is up on my site. However it'll be a while until i get the directions maps finished. Thought I'd let ya know. PS: speaking of the March issue of TRAINS, did you get a glimse at either of those passenger trains, because I didn't [|(].

[ironhorseman]

BNSF's Emporia AND Doulass Subdivions. I know it's been mentioned once or twice in Trains Magazine, I'll have to go back through 6 issues to find it. The type of articles they appeared in were on transcontinental topics. But RailNews Magazine (discontinued) June 1999 did an exclusive article on the subdivision, titled "Kansas Speedway."

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P.S. - I also forgot about the BN when it went through my town, too, on a former Frisco line almost a decade ago. Now most of those rails are ripped up. The Frisco came here in 1880, Santa Fe in 1881.

P.P.S. - The Emporia Sub is part of the transcon route talked about in Trains April 2004 Railroad News.

[Anonymous]

Sanford sub also auburndale sub , csx track [:D]
but amtrack can use it to [8)]

[Anonymous]

I live within two miles of the Norfolk Southern's Central of Georgia subdivision, part of the Alabama division (according to the operations manual a locomotive engineer let me have.)

If I want real color in my life, I can take a 40 mile trip (roughly) and see CSX doing really interesting stuff in Manchester, Georgia, where the city fathers have actually built a train watcher's site. That's on the mumble mumble I don't know subdivision of the CSX.

Erik

[Anonymous]

I run on NS's Brooklyn-Lafayette district, Illinois Division.

[ironhorseman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Nora

How can I tell what subdivisions I am near? I've been wondering that for a while & this seems a perfect place to ask. I live a little north of NS's Conway yard, and a little south of the CSX New Castle yard...

--Nora

Did you ever figure out what subdivision you're on?

Before I ever knew anything about railroads I knew what subdivision went through town because at almost every crossing around here the name is stenciled on the side of the rails:

"EMPORIA SUB MAIN 1"
&
"EMPORIA SUB MAIN 2"

I don't know about the Douglass Sub. I'd have to go down to the highway to see if it's stenciled on down there. I don't go down there much because not as accessable as the other sub. I only learned about the Douglass Sub's name when I watched a train video and then through various maps from time to time in Trains and other magazines.

I wonder if other railroads stencil their subs on their rails or if this is just a BNSF thing? Or maybe they just do it on multi-track areas?