Is your favorite main line now full of weeds and wild flowers?

[techguy57]

I went back to my hometown of Indianapolis this past weekend and was reminded once again of the B&O line that ran through the city and out through the western 'burbs like Speedway and Brownsburg. Unfortunately it has been abandoned for some time now with seeming little hope of making anything out of it at all. I remember trains running on that line behind my grandparents farm house when I was just a kid. Even got to see a steam excursion every once in a while. That's the line I miss most.

Mike

[gabe]

The only abandonment of a railroad that hasn't left me sad is the abandonment of the underground railway due to the abolition of slavery.

But, to answer the question, IC's Springfield - St. Louis abandonment has to be the one that hit the hardest for me.

Gabe

P.S. Kudos on the map of the month. I enjoyed it (an IC/GM&O one like that would be really cool).

[Angela Pusztai-Pasternak]

Is your favorite main line now full of weeds and wild flowers? What abandonments have left you angry or shedding a tear?

Don't miss the Map of the Month on the ACL+SAL merger in February 2005 TRAINS .