BaltACD ACY One of my favorites has always been Lester, Ohio, on the B&O. Passenger service ended over 60 years ago, but the station still exists. Other interesting B&O stations at junction points were at Deshler, Ohio, Midland City, Ohio, and Newark, Ohio. Tom The Willard-Cleveland manifest train had a HIGH transformer that the Clearance wire very clumbsly stated was to operate via Medina (where the B&O crossed the ACY at grade).
ACY One of my favorites has always been Lester, Ohio, on the B&O. Passenger service ended over 60 years ago, but the station still exists. Other interesting B&O stations at junction points were at Deshler, Ohio, Midland City, Ohio, and Newark, Ohio. Tom
Other interesting B&O stations at junction points were at Deshler, Ohio, Midland City, Ohio, and Newark, Ohio.
Tom
The Willard-Cleveland manifest train had a HIGH transformer that the Clearance wire very clumbsly stated was to operate via Medina (where the B&O crossed the ACY at grade).
ACYOne of my favorites has always been Lester, Ohio, on the B&O. Passenger service ended over 60 years ago, but the station still exists. Other interesting B&O stations at junction points were at Deshler, Ohio, Midland City, Ohio, and Newark, Ohio. Tom
When I transferred to the Akron-Chicago Division as a Train Order Operator, I made my first day at Lester. Of course then you had the line to Cleveland, the line to Lorain, the line to Sterling and the line to Lake Jct. via Medina.
The Willard-Cleveland manifest train had a HIGH transformer that the Clearance wire very clumbsly stated was to operate via Medina (where the B&O crossed the ACY at grade). Instead the Dispatcher and Train crew thought the shipment was to operate the 'normal' route (where the ACY crossed over the B&O on a overhead bridge). The high load hit the bridge and moved it a couple of feet off the bridge piers - a number of careers were seriously interupted (mine wasn't one of them) and the transformer had to be returned to the manufacturer. I believe the ACY got the bridge repaired in less than a week.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
One of my favorites has always been Lester, Ohio, on the B&O. Passenger service ended over 60 years ago, but the station still exists.
The Southern station in Charlottesville served both the C&O and the Southern, though when Amtrak began operating it had been many years since C&O trains stopped there. Now, you leave the station on one side to take the Cardinal, and you leave the other side to take the trains on the former Southern line. Signs inside the station direct the unfamiliar passengers to the correct door. The two roads cross south/west of the station.
The current station building is not big enough to seat all the passengers taking the train to Boston (personal experience last month).
Johnny
White River Junction, Vermont has tracks on two sides. One side is on the New England Central (originally Central Vermont), used by Amtrak's Vermonter, and the other on the state-owned former Boston and Maine line towards St. Johnbury, now operated by Green Mountain Rail System's Washington County. The latter is used for occasional excursion service using GMRS equipment. Year ago there was a B&M track on the third side heading towards Boston, with a diamond protected by a ball signal.
Clybourn Ave. is the first outbound stop on the C&NW North and Northwest lines in Chicago.
cbq9911a Boyd I know I've seen multiple pictures of a RR passenger station where one track curves away to one side and the other track curves away to the other side. I would guess that there has been more than one station between two tracks in North America. Where else has this occurred? Clybourn on the UP (ex C&NW) North and Northwest lines. As you head outbound, the North line goes to the right and the Northwest line goes to the left. The station is between the two lines.
Boyd I know I've seen multiple pictures of a RR passenger station where one track curves away to one side and the other track curves away to the other side. I would guess that there has been more than one station between two tracks in North America. Where else has this occurred?
I know I've seen multiple pictures of a RR passenger station where one track curves away to one side and the other track curves away to the other side. I would guess that there has been more than one station between two tracks in North America. Where else has this occurred?
Clybourn on the UP (ex C&NW) North and Northwest lines. As you head outbound, the North line goes to the right and the Northwest line goes to the left. The station is between the two lines.
Modeling the "Fargo Area Rapid Transit" in O scale 3 rail.
The DL&W Station at Netcong (still in use) used to be between 2 lines--the main line to Scranton / Buffalo and the Sussex Branch. It is also a two level station. The mainline was several feet higher than the branch. The mainline is still used by commuter trains. The branch is long gone. The station looks strange now, because the bay window from the agents office now faces a parking lot (where the branch was). The station looks built backwards. http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/uploaded/wks/netcong.jpg
What a great picture. Stunning.
NorthWest Point of Rocks, MD, on the B&O is probably the most famous example.
Point of Rocks, MD, on the B&O is probably the most famous example.
Firelock, didn't the C&O station in Richmond have tracks in a V at one end?
Antinito, CO on the D&RGW narrow guage, between the lines to Cumbres Pass/Durango and the remainder of the line to Santa Fe.
Gilman IL on the Illinois Central used to have a similar arrangement prior to 1971 with separate platforms on the north-south line and the line to Springfield and St. Louis.
The Reading Company's Reading Outer Station sat in the middle of a wye. Passenger trains used all three legs.
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