What kind of trains do you see near your home? How about some picks! Heres mine
CN Petitcodiac NB Canada
Leaving the Spur to the Sawmill
Backing down the Mainline to connect with rest of train
Blasting out of Town!
I have CSX's Nahunta Subdivision going right through on the ex-Atlantic Coast Line, and I have the Georgia Central wich operates the 33 miles of ex-SCL trackage south of Savannah. (It goes to Riceboro, GA, where it serves a paper mill there)
The only pic I have took is this one:
And this is a pic of a GC unit: (Not mine)
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.....Nice photos. RR's here in my area.....Currently CSX, ex Conrail, ex NYC. Also have NS, ex Nickle Plate. Years ago we also had a branch of Pennsylvania RR. Accessed {trackage rights, I assume}, via the NYC I believe over in Anderson, In.
We had a Muncie Belt RR around the city too.....some trackage is still in place.
And the area was {at one time}, saturated with interurbans.
CSX is double track east / west. NS is in and out in several directions.
Old C&O depot was beautifully restored back in 2003-4 for current use as Trail Head on our {ex C&O}, Cardinal Greenway Trail and has been very successful as folks come from afar to use it.
Quentin
Celina Ohio now has RJ corman was NKP trackage.They also had the Cincinnati Northern(NYC branch line)that track is gone.
Defiance has CSX(former B&O) and the Maumee and Western(former wabash).
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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").
The UP runs three or four trains through here...per hour! Metra adds a couple.
Rumor has it that CN runs along the northern edge of town.
There are also a couple of former rights-of-way that make good bike paths.
Carl
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Right now there aren't any... The old B&M line is underwater (Yes, I did say underwater... it was in a valley that was dammed so the people of Boston would have water to drink) and the trolley line down Main St. in under asphalt. I know where it ran in front of the library, but I'm not sure where it goes after that. There's also an abandoned tunnel and the site of a huge bridge over a valley, but it's long gone now. I've been through the tunnel once, it's pretty cool inside.
There are plenty of railroads near our house, including CSX's branch line from Framingham to Leominster, the Pan Am line from Worcester to Ayer, and of course CSX's for B&A line from Boston to Selkirk, NY.
Marion, NC has old Clinchfield CSX running north/south on the west side of town. The NS-S line runs east west through town. Both routes lead to engineering marvels: the Clinchfield loops through the northern McDowell County mountains and the Old Fort loops heading toward Asheville. The abandoned "peavine" line parallels much of CSX south of Marion. I remember slow moving Southern freights on thatline as a kid. It was part of the original "3C's."
CSX runs about 30 trains a day and NS is very busy as well. The S-line is on the list to get Amtrak service if our "good" govenor ever decides to do something good for Western North Carolina. The depots are ready, the interest is high, just waiting for the go from Raleigh.
Good train watching around here.
CShaveRR wrote: The UP runs three or four trains through here...per hour! Metra adds a couple.Rumor has it that CN runs along the northern edge of town.There are also a couple of former rights-of-way that make good bike paths.
Similar to Carl, we have very many BNSF, Metra and Amtrak (with occasional EJ&E and an appearance each day by RailNet) trains here PER HOUR so you are almost always in for some sort of action when going trackside at just about any hour...day or night. I have not ever counted the train traffic in 24 hours but my guess would be that we have about 100 plus train movements a day.
I live on the DM&E in Cavour, South Dakota. Mostly grain hoppers, some boxcars filled with woodchips from the sawmill in Belle Fourche, bentonite clay from the end of the line in Wyoming, once in a while 2 flatcars of crushed cars (always 2, never more or less).
Then there's what I call the BCS trains. Brookings County Specials. They leave Huron with empty hoppers and tankers for the soybean plant in Volga and empty tankers for the ethanol plant in Aurora. Full cargo going that way is center beam flatcars with California redwood for the playground equipement factory in Brookings and cement for the distribution facilty north of Sioux Valley Junction, which has 2 1-mile long sidings on the south side of the main line.
The trains are left at the junction and distributed by the locomotives kept in Brookings. These trains move in both directions, with full tankers and beaners, and the empty flats and cement cars coming back to Huron for redistribution west.
Hopefully the CP coal trains will be coming through, but it will be 2012 at the earliest.
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.....That certainly is beautiful stone work on that ex RR tunnel. Probably has not had much maintenance in recent years either....Beautiful work.
I'm 3 miles east of the BNSF's Hinckley Sub (former GN) between Minneapolis & Superior. UP and CP operate on trackage rights as well. There used to be Amtrak service on the line until the late 80s but there's continued talk of renewed passenger service someday.
I just got back from breakfast up in Cambridge, MN, and I saw three BNSF unit trains on Labor Day: 1 northbound empty ore train, 1 southbound loaded ore train DPUed (long one too - 3 units - 2 up front and 1 one pusher), and 1 southbound empty coal train.
Largest inland port in the US. BNSF,CP,CN,UP,NSSR, LS&M, many grain elevator switchers, and breathtaking scenes.
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Southington CT, trains, trains everywhere, but not here anymore. Well, almost, they took up the tracks on the only rail line in town and made it a "Rails to Trails" paved bike path.
Don't feel sorry for me, 6 miles to the north is Bristol with the Guilford line to Waterbury CT (former New Haven, former New York & New England) --- 12 miles to the west in Waterbury is the Naugatuck (tourist) Railroad --- 20 miles east is the Providence & Worcester Middletown branch line --- 30 miles south east is the Essex (Connecticut Valley Railroad - tourist) Steam Train & River Boat ---- 26 miles to the south is the Northeast Corridor at New Haven with hourly Acela Bullet Trains and Metro North Commuter Rail to New York City --- 40 miles to the north, at Springfield, is the CSX main line to Boston.
Love those Trains.
Don U. TCA 73-5735
choochoobuff wrote:NS over ex-NYC trackage, also Indiana and Ohio (RailAmerica) over ex-DTI and Erie trackage. The ex-PRR is now pretty much a bike path.
It sounds like you live near me. Im in Marion.
At the railyard in Calumet City, IL, we see:
Indiana Harbor Belt
Norfolk Southern
BNSF
CSX
And Union Pacific
TonyM.
Right across the street is the BNSF. About a mile to the east is the Indiana Harbor Belt. and then about 3 miles farther south is the BNSF ex-Santa Fe, Chilicothe Subdivision, I believe.
Trains through here as near as I can tell: Any given weekday, METRA trains. about 96 (48 each direction) total. 6 Amtraks, and probably 30-50 freight trains, depending on the day,I guess. It has been a bit quiet freight-traffic-wise around here... doesn't seem to be as many as there used to be..... On the IHB we get CSX, CP, CN, and UP action, as well as IHB stuff.
Plenty to see...
there is not much down her but as far as i know there is the Ex-IC to new orlens wich can be busy.
I cross CSX every day on the way to work and home, and even when I head out to work on the railroad. With just two through trains and a couple of locals, though, actually seeing one is a treat.
An hour south puts me on the CSX Chicago line - plenty of traffic there (including some that Joe sees, too). There's Susquehanna action there on occasion as well.
MA&N runs sporadically nearby, as well as in Utica (2 hours away), so I often see them when I'm running on our Utica trains.
A short jaunt into Canada will net me CN and CP, although I didn't see anything last time I was up there. Of course, I can see CN power on the CSX line here, too.
Three hours south gets me CP, SuzyQ, and possibly some NS.
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Well, here in Louisville, Ky, we still have a bunch of trains running everyday; may not
be quite what it was from earlier days; but we still have the CSX, NS, P & L, L & I,
INRD and CP come in here.
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About the only thing that does not suck about being stationed in CT is the proximity to different railroads.
The Providence and Worcester runs right through town, although I do not have any really good photographs of it.
The New England Central runs right across the river.
Amtrak's NEC also runs through town:
And, not too far away is the Essex Steam Train.
So many scales, so many trains, so little time.....
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