Dagget, Ca
Caliente, Ca
Barstow, Ca
Needles, Ca
Colorado River Bridge between Ariz & Cal (BNSF)
Colton,Ca
Cajon Pass (summit)
Dolton, IL
Rochelle, IL
Ft. Madison Iowa
Here are mine in no particular order
1.) Dolton, IL
2.) LaGrange, IL
3.) West Chicago, IL
4.) Greenwich, Ohio
5.) Palmer, MA
6.) Cresson, PA
7.) Elmhurst, IL
8.) Attleboro, MA (NEC action)
9.) Rochelle, IL
10.) City train station Kharkiv Ukraine, main line through from Germany & Poland to Moscow and points east.
A bit diverse I admit, but makes for great train watching!
I dispatch the Marion, OH Diamonds on 2nd Shift Conrail,C&O and NS.
-Casey
The California towns that you mentioned, which RR company goes by there, my guess is BNSF, I’m not sure if both BNSF and UP goes by there or not.
UnionPacificRR6737 All the places mentioned are both UPRR & BNSF sites except Needles & the bridge between Cal & Ariz which is a BNSF site. Naturall Dolton being in the Chicago area you get all sorts of trains. I saw CPRR, South Shore, NS, CSX, BNSF & UPRR
WHAT? NO CRAWFORD HILL?(BNSF).
BNSF railfan. Sorry have not reached their yet. However, my interest is more of interlocking then of watching trains crawl their way up hills. If you go to the Cajon pass in Ca you can see 3 tracks of trains going up & down hills. To me it becomes boring after a while. More interesting is say Caliente at the bottom of hill where a BNSF EB is being held as the UPRR WBer is coming down & will take the switch & after the UPRR passes the BNSF EBer gets the signal to proceed. Or Dagget where you can see a UPRR WBer entering the BNSF on track 1 . A UPRR EBer on track 2 exiting the BNSF & on track 3 a BNSF East or West bounder intermodal Z going by at speed.
My list has to be this, even though I’m way late on a response.
#1 Marysville, PA: Home of the Rockville Bridge, there is this place called the Bridgeview Bed & Breakfast. Great place to just sit down and watch.
#2 Rochelle, IL: Just a diamond. Pretty self explanitory when I mention how busy the UP and BNSF lines are.
#3 Cresson, PA: Good spot to watch the Pittsburgh line. Nice photos there too.
#4 Flagstaff, AZ: Amazing spot with BNSF there. Neat photos with the desert.
#5 Cozad, NE: Any place in Nebraska off US 30 in between Grand Island and North Platte is good for train traffic with 120 or so trains a day. Make sure you have a lense to catch 65 - 75 MPH trains, though.
#6 Fostoria, OH: Just a great place with a great diamond with CSX and NS.
#7: Selma, NC: A diamond with the CSX A-Line with NS running 3 trains a day on the other track, and 50 for CSX. Also notable, CSX is planning on building an intermodal terminal similar to North Baltimore, OH. Supposed to be done by 2020.
#8 Galitzin, PA: A very easy-to-get-to tunnel on the Pittsburgh line just East of Cresson.
#9 Centralia, IL: Has CN, BNSF Coal Corridor, and NS’s Southern District. CN runs on the old IC line here.
#10 Last but not least, Kansas City, MO: Santa Fe JCT is a very very busy spot for BNSF and UP, but if you get bored there, which I doubt you will, KCS, NS, UP, BNSF, and some shortlines run through!