Modeling the "Fargo Area Rapid Transit" in O scale 3 rail.
Wilmington & Western in Delaware serves a brick dealer. It always causes a stir when they come up to Landenburg Jct. with their steamer, to pick up thier cars and spot them at the brick dealer.
Nick
Take a Ride on the Reading with the: Reading Company Technical & Historical Society http://www.readingrailroad.org/
See ALASKA RAILROAD; the Everything RR. Tourist, passenger and freight. I spent several weeks there last summer and will be returning this year as well. The Alaska basically runs between Anchorage and Fairbanks, with a couple of secondary branches.
JWM
The Oil Creek & Titusville in Pennsylvania does. I believe they interchange with the Western New York & Pennsylvania RR.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
the old SP track between Austin TX and Burnet TX sees an interesting mix of freight and passenger. The tracks and ROW are owned by Capital Metro which is in the process of starting commuter rail on the Leander - Austin portion of the line. Austin & Northwest Railroad has the freight hauling contract over the entire line. Lastly, there is tourist service over much of the line on weekends. Currently pulled by diesel but with an SP steamer in the last phases of a rebuild.
dd
Your friendly neighborhood CNW fan.
There is a tourist railroad out of French Lick Indiana that hauls some freight.
Good question.
Gabe
I was in North Freedom WI a couple of years ago and there was talk of extending the line to a quarry just past the end of track, to get some freight traffic. Not sure if it ever happend or not.
Bert
An "expensive model collector"
Typically, it is the other way around. There are many short lines that haul passengers in addition to freight. Perhaps it is an insider thing, but if you measure freight against passenger revenues you will find that in all but the smallest lines freight revenues far outweigh passenger.
LC
A few years ago when I rode some equipment at the Fox Valley Railroad Museum in South Elgin, Ill. the conductor announced at the beginning of our ride that the Museum was still in business to haul freight. Of course, "... to haul freight ..." to where (?), I don't know.
In the Museum's early years, they were the weekend guests of the tiny Aurora, Elgin, and Fox River Electric railroad, a diesel powered freight hauler that ran between a connection with the I.C.G. at Coleman, Ill. and the City of South Elgin. After the Illinois State Hospital converted its heating plant from southern Illinois coal to natural gas, the A.E.& F.R. lost its last customer, so it gave up the ghost and sold the trackage to the Museum. After the sale was completed the museum kept the connection to the I.C.G./ C.C.P. at Coleman; but, today I'm not at all sure that this connection is still in place. Last summer when I had a chance to ride the Museum's equipment again, no mention was made of their being open to handling any carload freight business.
Georgia Northeastern hauls some freight for extra revenue.
Bob-Fryml wrote: A few years ago when I rode some equipment at the Fox Valley Railroad Museum in South Elgin, Ill. the conductor announced at the beginning of our ride that the Museum was still in business to haul freight. Of course, "... to haul freight ..." to where (?), I don't know.In the Museum's early years, they were the weekend guests of the tiny Aurora, Elgin, and Fox River Electric railroad, a diesel powered freight hauler that ran between a connection with the I.C.G. at Coleman, Ill. and the City of South Elgin. After the Illinois State Hospital converted its heating plant from southern Illinois coal to natural gas, the A.E.& F.R. lost its last customer, so it gave up the ghost and sold the trackage to the Museum. After the sale was completed the museum kept the connection to the I.C.G./ C.C.P. at Coleman; but, today I'm not at all sure that this connection is still in place. Last summer when I had a chance to ride the Museum's equipment again, no mention was made of their being open to handling any carload freight business.
Most of the interchange track has been taken up from the CN end.
n012944 wrote: I was in North Freedom WI a couple of years ago and there was talk of extending the line to a quarry just past the end of track, to get some freight traffic. Not sure if it ever happend or not. Bert
Never happened and probably never will. The only reason I would think that tracks would ever be put back to that quarry would be just for the tourist trains to run to, as I highly doubt there is enough quarriable (if that's an adjective) rock back there to make it worth it.
Some people in the Orginization at North Freedom thought that Mid Contient should have formed a freight only company as an aside and gone after the operating contract on the former CNW line from Madison to Reedsburg, Wisconsin. There wasn't enough support for it though and so the line ended up being leased to the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad instead.
Noah
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New Hope & Ivyland R.R., in Bucks Co. in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Also, I believe a number of the short lines in New England - Cape Cod, New Hampshire, western Connecticut, Vermont, etc. - may also fit this criteria, but I'm not familiar enough with their recent operations to say for certain.
- Paul North.
Noah Hofrichter wrote: n012944 wrote: I was in North Freedom WI a couple of years ago and there was talk of extending the line to a quarry just past the end of track, to get some freight traffic. Not sure if it ever happend or not. Bert Never happened and probably never will. The only reason I would think that tracks would ever be put back to that quarry would be just for the tourist trains to run to, as I highly doubt there is enough quarriable (if that's an adjective) rock back there to make it worth it.Some people in the Orginization at North Freedom thought that Mid Contient should have formed a freight only company as an aside and gone after the operating contract on the former CNW line from Madison to Reedsburg, Wisconsin. There wasn't enough support for it though and so the line ended up being leased to the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad instead.Noah
The Boone & Scenic Valley in Iowa switches out a couple of industries in Boone. Talking to the General Manager last week a bio-diesel plant may locate there also. IIRC, they had to set up a separate company to preserve their non-profit status.
The FRA also became more interested in all their operations once they started handling freight. Some of that may have been because some UP employees didn't want to see the switching go to someone else. I personally think this helped to retain some UP jobs and traffic. It's not a large volume of cars and I think the UP would've eventually tried to get rid of this traffic.
Jeff
spokyone wrote:We drive up your way several times a year to canoe. How is the steam rebuild doing?
Mid Continent is still trying to rebuild a couple of steam locomotives for operation. I'm not directly a member of the organization so I don't know for sure, but last time I was told progress is still being made. They are currently working on trying to get the boiler put back together on the Western Coke and Coal #1. I have no idea how long it's supposed to take. The folks there are saying steam should be back "soon," but then again, they have been saying that for years.....
I beleive the Sierra RR still does some revinue frieght service, as did the McCloud RR before it went under.
Oh and its not the narrow gauge Roaring Camp RR, but the Santa Cruz, Big Trees & Pacific RR, which is standard gauge, which still has some revinue service on it, both are part of the same company, but the Santa Cruz RR interchanges with the UP in Aptos ( I beleive, its been a while).
Have fun with your trains
Boyd wrote:So the 1385 is out of commission?
(Again, let me add the disclaimer that I am not actually a member of Mid Contient, but living near it and having friends who do belong to the museum, I do hear some information from time to time on how certain projects are going.)
The 1385 has been out of service for a few years already, and things don't seem to be looking up for it. The Museum is talking about having a whole new boiler made for the thing as the old one is pretty well shot, but that would cost lots of money (were talking like 400 to 500 thousand dollars, and that's for the boiler work alone). Mid Contient simply doesn't have that much money and can't seem to raise it, or at least as an outsider it sure doesn't look like it. If they do turn a profit at all it is just barely on their passenger runs, and donors I think are getting tired of throwing money in what appears to be a bottomless pit without any real work being done. Right now there are other steamers on site that need less money for repairs and so they are concentrating a little more on those, but they do seem to still keep the restorating of 1385 in the picture. Right now though it's sitting around the yard in peices (I believe the cab is seperated from the boiler which is seperated from the frame and wheels, so many peices). Things sure don't look too good for the old girl, but there's always a little hope she could still steam again some day....
Last year we rode the Verde Canyon excursion train. Awesome. The web site claims they haul freight. I did see some hopper cars in a quarry.http://www.verdecanyonrr.com/history.htm
The Great Smoky Mountains Railway is the only one I know of and its already been mentioned. Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.
Cheese
Nick! :)
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