Laurel, Mississippi Trains?

[Benchedthatpiece]

it helps a lot, very interesting. Thank you!

Jay

 

samfp1943

To "Benchedthatpiece"  I did a little research on the NO&NE at Laurel, Miss.    It was suceeded by the Southern Rwy and then the NS. Between Meridian,Ms and New Orleans. 

 

Here is a linked site {Mississippi Rails};inclusive of a system map. { map can be 'exploded' to larger size!}  @  https://www.msrailroads.com/NO&NE.htm

Hope this helps.

[mudchicken]

Sadly, the station you refer to is nothing more than four really thick walls , no windows and no roof today. 

Part of my project at Gary had me 8 blocks south of Gary station at Millers (nobody knows about that place on the NYC/MC/IHB Dune Park branch - but the foundation and cinder platform remains are still there.) Quarter corner is still there, a piece of 60# rail. Surprised nobody tried to dig that one up yet. The Wabash main at Millers is on borrowed time. 

Sad to see all that high speed track reduced to 10 MPH or just sitting in the weeds. Not far away is the former PRR main with 136#CWR on new ties, laid- but never used. Weird.

[BaltACD]

mudchicken

 

BaltACD 

Lithonia Operator

Where is Pine Junction? 

Gary, IN 

(Tolleston, Buffington & Dunes country - spent a decade there one week only to discover that the railroads aren't sure who owns what in there thanx to a USRA /CR/InDOT screw-up from the 1970's.)

In my qualifying for Train Dispatcher on the B&O's Akron-Chicago Division, I rode Train #7 from Akron to Gary as a part of my Road Review.  I hung around the station for a hour or two and then caught a Eastbound freight back to Willard and another train from Willard to Akron.

In hanging around the station at Gary I got to see the bullet marks in some of the concrete walls around the station that were earned in the 1930's Chicago area gang warfare - Al Capone and others.

[Deggesty]

Yes, Pine Junction would have a little more traffic than you could find in Laurel.

Thanks, Sam for the reference to the NO&NE--and the Queen and Crescent Route (which also extended to Shreveport from Meridian); the Q&C ran from the Queen City to the Crescent City, and had two through trains a day in 1892.

[MMLDelete]

I've passed through Gary on the train, and I've seen Laurel on TV.

Laurel, hands down!!

There are plenty of plaes I'd rather live than in Mississippi (where I did, in fact, live for five years as a kid). But man, if one could get on their waiting list, that HGTV couple does an awesome job on houses that can be had for a song. Even after the reno, you are looking at the cost of a crummy, tiny one-bedroom condo in/near most major cities. And, ya know, the train watching is good ...  It's not something I'd rule out, TBH. I don't plan on being in Maine when I'm 80; that's no country for old men.

[mudchicken]

BaltACD

 

 

Lithonia Operator

Where is Pine Junction?

 

 

Gary, IN

 

(Tolleston, Buffington & Dunes country - spent a decade there one week only to discover that the railroads aren't sure who owns what in there thanx to a USRA /CR/InDOT screw-up from the 1970's.)

[samfp1943]

mudchicken

15-20 trains/day on the NO&NE District (10 in the daytime)

FRA record 

  To "Benchedthatpiece"  I did a little research on the NO&NE at Laurel, Miss.    It was suceeded by the Southern Rwy and then the NS. Between Meridian,Ms and New Orleans. 

Here is a linked site {Mississippi Rails};inclusive of a system map. { map can be 'exploded' to larger size!}  @  https://www.msrailroads.com/NO&NE.htm

Hope this helps.  

[mudchicken]

Lithonia Operator

Where is Pine Junction?

 

Chicago/Indiana Side - in da swamp SE of town, just east of Clarke Junction and CP-501, West of the USS Gary Mill/ Curtis & Kirk Yards

[BaltACD]

Lithonia Operator

Where is Pine Junction?

Gary, IN

[MMLDelete]

Where is Pine Junction?

[Benchedthatpiece]

Wow, that's a bit depressing. Driving 11 hours and 2 minutes / 732 miles for ten trains in the daylight hours or Pine Junction which is 12 hours and 15 minutes / 765 miles? The last time I went to Pine Junction I got 92 trains in the daylight hours. Looks like a trip north is in order. Thanks mudchicken, I greatly appreciate your help! : )

Jay

[mudchicken]

15-20 trains/day on the NO&NE District (10 in the daytime)

FRA record

[Benchedthatpiece]

Hi all, I have been watching and enjoying the TV show Home Town. I have noticed quite a few trains passing through Laurel but I can't find much info on the number of trains? From what I have researched it is the Norfolk Southern Crescent route which would mean it is a main line? There are not a lot of videos from there on Youtube and the Frograil site doesn't list it anywhere. I am toying with the idea of going down there in May for National Train Day. It is closer than my other choice of Pine Junction, IN which I have done a couple of times already. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Jay