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Originally posted by GN-Rick Absolutely. I live very near to the old Everett & Monte Cristo Railway. The right-of-way is just across the river I live on. It was a short line built in the 1890s to service the mines at Monte Cristo, Wa., and trans- port the concentrated ore to a smelter in Everett. It went through many incarnations-E&MC, then Monte Cristo Railway, then was sold to the Northern Pacific in 1899 as the Monte Cristo branch and then spun off to another private owner and operated as the Hartford Eastern using gas cars and doodlebugs. It finally was abandoned in 1933. Today, some of it is a trail in a very scenic river canyon. [/quote I know the line you are talking about. I hike down in Robe canyon once in awhile. It is a great little hike. You can easily imagine the steam locomotives coming through the tunnels. I live in Lake Stevens so it is not too far away. Reply GN-Rick Member sinceMay 2003 From: Robe Valley, Wa. 719 posts Posted by GN-Rick on Sunday, August 28, 2005 1:11 AM Well, andrewjonathan, I live uphere in Robe, so I have really close proximity to this line. I also happen to own an original Hartford Eastern Public Timetable and have a brake shoe I found up in the area. Age of this is obvious-being from an outside-brake beam truck. It's interesting-thought I'd just mention it.[:)] Rick Bolger Great Northern Railway Cascade Division-Lines West Reply BNSF_GP60M Member sinceJuly 2006 From: BNSF MP968.3 in California 247 posts Posted by BNSF_GP60M on Sunday, August 28, 2005 1:30 AM Here in Kings County, Ca there is was a branch for the San Joaquin Valley Railroad that went from Lemoore to Stratford that was torn up in the mid 90's. where this line crossed a highway, you can still see the RXR on the pavement. In Tulare County, Ca there is all the old grades for the Visalia Electric (SP subsidiary) with some crossing signals still standing and a few bridges. Also there is the old Santa Fe line that were part of the valley district. Many of the grades are still there and even part of it is a walking trail. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 28, 2005 7:49 AM There are many in the Southwest Missouri/Southeast Kansas area. Northeast Oklahoma,Joplin & Pittsburg,Southwest Missouri Electric,Missouri Pacific, St. Louis - San Fransico,Miami Mineral Belt,Kansas Oklahoma and Gulf, Kansas City Southern,Missouri and North Arkansas,many mining company owned narrow gauge lines and some grades that where built but never got rail. Reply Edit Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 28, 2005 7:53 AM Please for give me for omitting the ATSF in the abandon lines of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas. Reply Edit Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 28, 2005 7:54 AM Please for give me for omitting the ATSF in the abandon lines of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas. Reply Edit Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 28, 2005 7:57 AM There are many in the Southwest Missouri/Southeast Kansas area. Northeast Oklahoma,Joplin & Pittsburg,Southwest Missouri Electric,Missouri Pacific, St. Louis - San Fransico,Miami Mineral Belt,Kansas Oklahoma and Gulf, Kansas City Southern,Missouri and North Arkansas,many mining company owned narrow gauge lines and some grades that where built but never got rail. Reply Edit alcodave Member sinceJanuary 2004 From: marion 234 posts Posted by alcodave on Sunday, August 28, 2005 8:12 AM At one end of my street is the abandoned Erie/Erie Lacawanna dayton branch and at the other is the old Erie marion yard.Also there is an abandoned interurban line in my town. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:20 AM I lived in Susanville, California for a number of years where I developed an interest in logging railroads. These logging railroads had long since been abandon, but I tracked them down. Here is a map of logging railroad grades that I put together from one of the operations in the area, it was the Fruit Growers Supply Company, buying arm for the California Fruit Growers Exchange, now called Sunkist, the Orange People. http://home.att.net/~lassen.logger/FGS_Map.htm Jim - Lawton, NV MP236 Reply Edit Junctionfan Member sinceFebruary 2004 From: St.Catharines, Ontario 3,770 posts Posted by Junctionfan on Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:31 AM In my area we had 3 very busy lines that now have gone. The Canada Southern line which was owned by the NYC, the Cayuga Subdivision which was CN, and the Dunnville Sudivision which was T,H&B. At one point in time, CN, CP, TH&B, Wabash/NW and NYC used to go through the area. Andrew Reply CShaveRR Member sinceJune 2001 From: Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois 13,681 posts Posted by CShaveRR on Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:37 AM I use two abandoned rights-of-way to bike to work--both are within two miles of where I live: the former Chicago, Aurora & Elgin and the former Chicago Great Western. Both are pretty well preserved as rail trails. Carl Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!) CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM) Reply SchemerBob Member sinceJuly 2005 From: Northeast Missouri 869 posts Posted by SchemerBob on Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:41 AM I live close to Ottumwa, Iowa and they have several abandoned spur tracks. An abandoned railroad bridge still crosses the Des Moines River and the tracks still come down from the bridge. The spur follows the BNSF mainline for a ways and then goes behind the water plant. All the spur tracks are still there but havn't been used for several years. Long live the BNSF .... AND its paint scheme. SchemerBob Reply miniwyo Member sinceJanuary 2003 From: Rock Springs Wy. 1,967 posts Posted by miniwyo on Sunday, August 28, 2005 11:27 AM The South Pass branch here is still used, but not as it was origonally bilt for, It is just used through town now, it services lots of industry, and also a local Progress Rail Services, railcar shop. It used to run all the way up to Atlantic city to service a couple of the mines up there, but the tracks now end at an abandoned coal mine that was shut down about 15 years ago. RJ "Something hidden, Go and find it. Go and look behind the ranges, Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go." The Explorers - Rudyard Kipling http://sweetwater-photography.com/ Reply doghouse Member sinceMay 2005 From: Where it's cold. 555 posts Posted by doghouse on Sunday, August 28, 2005 12:44 PM Bangor & Aroostook. Reply CSXrules4eva Member sinceAugust 2004 From: Louisville, KY 1,345 posts Posted by CSXrules4eva on Sunday, August 28, 2005 1:24 PM Do I have any abandoned line were I live. Man do I have tons of them. There are more abandond rights of way than active one here in my state PA. The ones that I'm really familiar with are located in the Philadelphia, Lehigh, and Susquehanna reagions. In Philadelphia area: Abandoned ex Philadelphia Reading passanger line a cut off from Cresham that lead to Whitemarsh on what is now NS Harrisburg Division ex PRR. I have ex Reading now Septa R5 line, a little cutoff from Orland ex Reading to Allentown PA is abandoned. I know of a branch line that goes from Landsdale, PA up to Quakertown which was Reading now CSX that has part of it's line abandonded at Hilltop Shelly all the way into Bethlehem Steel. Was ex Reading then East Penn Railroad. I know of ex Penn Central which went from Fernwood to Newtown Square. I know of ex PRR lines that went from Norristown to Oaks which was a branch line. Actually at the old Oaks inerlocking there is an old 45 toner abandoned there. Lehigh Valley: I know of ex Northampton and Bath trackage that went from Navarro to Bath yard. I know of Wilkes Barre & Eastern track that went from Stroudsburg over to Suscon. Whole buch of LV trackage taken up or abandoned one place is at Hawk Mountain in the upper portion of Lehigh Valley. Susquehanna both Upper and Lower Counties: Near the Endless Mountains who bunch of Erie, Lackawanna, Delaware Lackawanna, and Delaware and Hudson. One line that was sold by NS to a regional railroad includes the famous Struckka Viaduct (spelling) I beleive that was old Erie trackage. Of course there is a whole bunch of abandoned Reading and PRR ROW along with LV. LORD HELP US ALL TO BE ORIGINAL AND NOT CRISPY!!! please? Sarah J.M. Warner conductor CSX Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 28, 2005 2:12 PM There are some abandoned railroad lines in Walla Walla that goes from the penitentiary to the east end of town, it was formerly used by the Burlington Northern railroad, then the Blue Mountain railroad took over the BN and the UP lines in the Walla Walla Valley area, the Blue Mountain railroad still uses the UP lines going from Walla Walla to the Boise Cascade as well as north of Walla Walla to somewhere way east in Washington and south to Pendleton, Oregon. Reply Edit chemung Member sinceJune 2003 From: Omaha,Nebr 87 posts Posted by chemung on Sunday, August 28, 2005 2:50 PM Waba***race,63 miles south from Councill Bluffs.on the old Wabash line from St.Louis to Omaha.http://wabashtrace.connections.net/wbthome2.html hope the link works.Gives discription and info. Dave W. Omaha,Nebr. A travling man AF&AM Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 28, 2005 3:36 PM Almost every former C&NW R-O-W out of Fond du Lac is abandoned. First to go was the FDL-Sheboygan line, torn up in the "60's. Then the FDL-Clyman Junction line was torn up about '85. The FDL-Wisconsin Rapids line was abandoned after WC took over the FV&W in '88. And most of the line from FDL-Butler Yard came up about 3 years back. The FDL-Clyman line became the Wild Goose trail, and parts of the FDL-Wis. Rapids line became the Mascoutin trail. Reply Edit GP-9_Man11786 Member sinceJuly 2004 From: Spartanburg, SC 1,503 posts Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Sunday, August 28, 2005 3:46 PM I live near the old NYC Walkill Valley line, now a rail trail. The old station hear in New Paltz is now an up-scale Italian place. In addition the old New Haven Maybrooke Line passes through the outskirts of town. A sectionb of it, leading up the the Poughkeepsie Bridge is also a trail. Further north in Kingston, is the old NYC Catskill line. Most of it is abandoned except for two isolated sections, which are now tourist railroads. Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale. www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com Reply railfan619 Member sinceMarch 2004 From: Somewhere near the tracks 927 posts Posted by railfan619 on Sunday, August 28, 2005 3:54 PM WE got a few of them here in wisconsin one is the old SOO line that runs from the old milwaukee road yard (dont know the real name for it ) any way it runs west towrds the old allis chambers plant and I even think it interconnects with. The ex CN&W now Up but not to sure on that last I heard they were going to try to turning that line into a bike path [:(][:(] Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 28, 2005 4:14 PM yeah the old sanat fe branch form strong city to cottonwood Falls to Bazzarr, you can see it in alot of places they just abandonded the strong city to cottonwood falls part in the early 80's so alot is still pretty visable, the bridge piers over the cottonwood River are still there. Reply Edit pat390 Member sinceAugust 2004 From: Valparaiso, IN 113 posts Posted by pat390 on Sunday, August 28, 2005 8:00 PM old wabah abandoned in the 60's with rails ripped out about ten miles north of town Reply waltersrails Member sinceJuly 2005 From: CSXT/B&O Flora IL 1,937 posts Posted by waltersrails on Sunday, August 28, 2005 8:46 PM Yes theres a few near where i live if you count a 30 mile raduis. The one in my town was an ex-CSX / B&O line. ANd 20 miles east is an old ICG/Wabash line. i wi***hey still ran mostly the B&O. I like NS but CSX has the B&O. Reply 12 Join our Community! Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account. Login » Register » Search the Community Newsletter Sign-Up By signing up you may also receive occasional reader surveys and special offers from Trains magazine.Please view our privacy policy More great sites from Kalmbach Media Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy
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CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
RJ
"Something hidden, Go and find it. Go and look behind the ranges, Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go." The Explorers - Rudyard Kipling
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