CSX by Emory University in Atlanta.
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The Ohio State University in Columbus - CSX's ex C&O Ashland (KY) - Detroit (MI) main line runs through campus just across the Olentangy River from Ohio Stadium and the West Campus housing area. Until the advent of AC/Heavy Haul Power, they would frequently use pushers on northbound coal trains on the long grade from downtown Columbus to Powell, OH.
University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg KY - CSX (ex L&N) Cincinnati-Atlanta Line runs along the bottom of the hills on which the school is built.
The University Of South Carolina at Columbia, SC has Norfolk Southern's (ex-Southern) Columbia-Charlotte line skirting the edge of the campus as well as a popular section for the college kids known as "Five Points". Back in the 80's, the line was suppose to be removed as part of a railroad relocation project for the city, but was never completed due to various reasons.
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scouttrainJames Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA - NS runs a coal train through the middle of campus.
No they do not. The CW, a subsidy of NS, runs grain trains to local feed and poultry plants in the Harrisonburg area. No coal.
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Paul_D_North_Jr [snip] There was a really good short column or 'frontispiece' article on that* in Trains back in the 1960's - by Michael J. Dunn, III, if I recall correctly - which involved 3 short-line railroads, but I can't quickly find a reference or citation for it. There have also been references to that kind of thing in subsequent articles on the STB and various projects and hsitories of specific railroads. But who else would care ? [snip] * the applicability and limits of the doctrine of 'adverse abandonment' of a rail line - i.e., typically a city or adjoining land owner wants the rail line abandoned so that something else can be done with the land that it occupies.
* the applicability and limits of the doctrine of 'adverse abandonment' of a rail line - i.e., typically a city or adjoining land owner wants the rail line abandoned so that something else can be done with the land that it occupies.
Only because that article does not appear in the Trains on-line Index to Magazines below, and really needs to be memorialized someplace, and the reference to it started here anyway - it is:
"Rail-to-road abandonments - a trend?" by Michael J. Dunn III, Trains, Kalmbach Publishing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 1967 issue, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 8 - 9, referring to 2 ICC decisions from 1966 and 1 anticipated in 1967, involving the Tulsa-Sapulpa Union Railway (''TSU'') in Tulsa, Oklahoma; the Feather River (''FR'') Railway in California; and the Washington & Old Dominion (''W&OD'') in Virginia. The article also referred to the leading case, Purcell vs. United States* - from back in the 1940's if I recall correctly - and a 1963 SP branch abandonment for a freeway that is not further identified by name or location.
*315 U.S. Supreme Court Reports at pp. 381 - 385 (1942). From that opinion on page 382: "The order permitted the Confluence and Oakland Railroad Company, as owner, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, as lessee, to abandon a railroad line approximately 20 miles long and to discontinue service entirely in the area now served: a semi-mountainous section along the Youghiogheny River between Confluence and Oakland Junction, Pennsylvania, and Kendall, Maryland. The appellants, who also appeared as protestants before the Interstate Commerce Commission, are the Public Service Commission of Maryland and the McCullough Coal Corporation, a coal mining company which alleges it will be forced out of business if railroad service is discontinued."
- Paul North.
Kevin C. SmithI think there is a community college campus in Denver just west of Union Station wrapped by someone's tracks. Don't know if it's UP's tracks or BNSF's, though.
RTD's Auraria line and UPRR's ex-DRGW Burnham Lead (demoted original main line MP 0-4, now an industrial lead) run along the extreme west side of the campus.
Auraria Campus (Metropolitan State College at Denver + CU-Denver + Denver University -Auraria)....not a community college, all are 4Yr regional institutions.
The CSX ex WM "Dutch Line" and the Gettysburg Northern both abut the Gettysburg College campus in GBG, PA. In earlier years, the Gety ran thru the campus, but the college and the RR exchanged some property to facilitate the new football field. Now, the Gbg Northern runs down the west side of the field to I/C with CSX and board passenagers @ the station. ( Students seem to take offense at having to vacate the tracks for tourist trains operating on home-game Saturdays.) CSX ex WM Lurgan Branch may still be through the Shippensburg College in South Central PA. The Arkansas & Missouri passes by the Fayettevlle campus, U of Arkansas..... RetGM
Montclair State University in New Jersey is located on the New Jersey Transit Boonton Line. There are two stations on campus. The original station was Montclair Heights. At one time the station building was supposed to be purchased from the erie Lackawanna for use as a student recreation center. The station is still in use although the original building burned down before the sale took place. The new station on campus has a five story parking garage and serves as the transfer point between the diesel powered and electrified trains. A shuttle bus is available to bring students to the central part of the campus from the station.
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James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA - NS runs a coal train through the middle of campus.
University of Oregon in Eugene
The UP mainline runs between the steam heat plant and a soccer field on the north edge of campus.
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY in Boston has two rail lines slicing through the campus. Amtrak's Northeast Corridor/MBTA Commuter Rail Line and the MBTA Orange Line cuts through the eastern half of the campus while the MBTA's Green Line E-Branch runs down the middle of street in the western half of the campus. Northeastern University has for better or for worse its own commuter rail station (Ruggles) which is a great spot for railfanning after a class.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY has the MBTA Green Line B-Branch running through the middle of their campus plus MBTA's Worcester Communter Line/ CSX's ex-Beacon Yard on its northside.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUATE OF TECHNOLOGY has a lightly used branch line also cutting its campus in half. The MBTA and Amtrak use the branch line to transfer equipment between South Station and North Station.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY has Amtrak's Northeast Corridor slicing through the southern part of it's campus. NJT/Amtrak trains stop at the New Brunswick train station.
University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH, USA has an Amtrak station for the Downeaster. It is convenient to the New England Center where many of the UNH events occur.
Oh, there's so many! PRR into Princeton, NJ, the B&O through WVA Weslyan in Buckhannon, the LV's EC&N at Cornell (gone), DL&W at had Drew U. at Madison, Fairligh Dickenson and St. Elizabeth's at Convent Sta. How close to Alfred is the old Erie passenger main? And Elmira College sitting atop the knoll at Fifth Street. Can't foreget the West Shore under and alongside West Point! I think this thread has a long way to go!
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Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.
The Amtrak Passenger Station though is east of the WMU campus in downtown Kalamazoo.
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The CSX (ex-NYC "St. Lawrence Div", né RW&O) runs thru Canton, NY on the west side of the St. Lawrence U./SUNY-Canton campii (??? Campuses?). The village is on the west side. I rode the "night train" (the "Canton Creeper", with Pullman sleepers) and the day train (a "Beeliner" [RDC, or two]) on many occasions to/from Westchester, either via Syracuse or Utica to/from Watertown.
Last time I was at the USMA ("West Point"), the station was still there and in very good shape (it is a stone building), protected by a very tasteful wrought iron fence, and is easily driven to. Just look for a road going downhill. Many-a football special departed this station.
wholemanThere is a set of tracks next to the campus of Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, KS. I am not sure of who owns the line. My sister is enrolled there and complains of the noise. I don't know why she is complaining, she has lived really close to set of tracks all of her life.
Deggesty BamaCSX83The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL has tracks running adjacent to the south side of campus. Not sure whose tracks, but I do know that they are active from my tenure at the university earning my degree. I have caught a glimpse of football activity on the UA campus from the Southern Crescent when going by there in the fall. This line, originally Alabama Great Southern, is now a part of he Norfolk Southern.
BamaCSX83The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL has tracks running adjacent to the south side of campus. Not sure whose tracks, but I do know that they are active from my tenure at the university earning my degree.
I have caught a glimpse of football activity on the UA campus from the Southern Crescent when going by there in the fall. This line, originally Alabama Great Southern, is now a part of he Norfolk Southern.
The University of Alabama! Location, Tuscaloosa, AL. Norfolk Southern does run right beside the campus, right beside the softball fields too. It might run beside the practice fields too. You might could count KCS in the mix too as NS and KCS interchange not too far from there. You can easily hear a train thread its way through T-Town in the stands of Bryant-Denny Stadium, well that is when its not game day.
Roll Tide!
Will
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The Muni M line runs adjacent to San Francisco State University.
Fresno City College and CSU Chico always duke it out for higher levels of pedestrian-train confrontations using the BNSF Stockton sub and UP Valley sub respectively.
The scenic ex-SP UP Coast sub passes through Cal Poly SLO.
The UP Fresno sub and RT Gold Line skirt the campus of CSU Sacramento. Nearby the ex-SP Cal-P line runs by UC Davis (my alma mater).
Loma Linda University has a good view of the UP Yuma sub. Occasionally a local passes UC Riverside on the BNSF/Metrolink San Jacinto branch.
OTOH CSU San Bernardino was just inappropriately sited too far from the busy BNSF Cajon sub triple track main.
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billio Also, the former C&O, later CSX now some bloody short line the name of which I no longer recall, over which ran the George Washington and Sportsman, C&Os two premier passenger trains, plus a few desultory freights, crosses the NS main a half-mile east of campus and runs west from downtown Charlottesville tangent to the UVA Grounds.
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* University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (WAHOOWAH!). Former SOU now NS line between Alexandria VA and Atlanta runs just east of the UVA Grounds. Also, the former C&O, later CSX now some bloody short line the name of which I no longer recall, over which ran the George Washington and Sportsman, C&Os two premier passenger trains, plus a few desultory freights, crosses the NS main a half-mile east of campus and runs west from downtown Charlottesville tangent to the UVA Grounds.
* University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, located a half mile east of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor Kingston, RI station..
* University of Chicago. Lies majestically along the majestic Midway in south-side Chi-Town, the east side of which is bounded by the elevated tracks of METRA Electric, once the four-track IC.
*Randolph-Macon College, Ashland VA. CSX's RF&P line runs through the middle of town and right past this fine liberal arts institution.
The joint Seaboard Air Line/ Southern line ran through NC State Campus in Raleigh. Now CSX & NS (NC RR w/lease to NS)
Not sure if this has been mentioned or not, but there's also Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio where CSX's former Conrail line from Toledo to Columbus passes on the west edge of campus. Of course, when I looked for an apartment when I was in grad school up there, I looked for a place with a view.
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RRCharlie BNSF has a line that splits the Campus of Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
BNSF has a line that splits the Campus of Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
SADLY: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14667455 Mason Street claims another one (and yes, headline and story do not match, typical yellow press) Mason Street is where BNSF's Front Range Sub. /Old C&S Ft. Collins District, does its street-running.
The Puget Sound Extension of the once mighty Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific ran along the northern edge of the University of Montana campus in Missoula. Today that right of way is a footpath, one which has a few block signals still in place to remind the students that a great railroad once passed through there.
Another campus just about perfectly bisected by rail is pastoral little Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa. Probably the dorms are "mixed" now, but in the old days (1960, when I was there), the men's houses were on one side of the tracks and the women's on the other. Many jokes were made about this.
The line passed from main-line M&StL to Chicago and North Western control the fall of the year I was there. The red and white M&StL diesels stayed for a while. My favorite was an 'F' with an air-chime whistle, obviously intended to recall steam and the most beautiful whistle on a diesel I have ever heard. I believe only one unit had this.
I dropped in on Grinnell a couple of years ago as a freight of successor U.P. passed the old depot (now a restaurant) shared with the main-line Rock Island in the old days. The triad air horns on the Rockets were pretty special too, enticing me to trackside for way too many hours away from the books. Hence only 1 year at Grinnell!
Thinking of that now, a branch of the old line starts a Rails-to-trail just outside of campus, one that connects a couple towns a ways off. It would be especially nice to go biking on. I'm sure, though, that many areas feature such trails, especially near colleges where such demand would be much higher.
On the north edge of my alma mater Heidelberg College (now Heidelberg University) in Tiffin, Ohio has the north edge of campus right along the CSX Chicago-Pittsburgh route (former B&O through Fostoria). Spent many times at trackside.
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