Mike — [Y][bow]
Yours is an excellent solution to the quandry of stringing wire along the right-of-way. I have held off on installing line poles for this reason.
I don’t want to deal with stringing wire and the associated hassles of the wire (thread) always interfering with track maintenance or, shudder the thought, a derailment.
Perfect solution, excellent photos [Y]
Cheers, Ed
I know this is an old post, but people like me read old posts, so I thought I might shed some insight.
The track that runs under the coaling tower is a main line of the CSX from Atlanta to Montgomery, AL called the A&WP Subdivision of their Atlanta Division. About 35 miles south of here at a place called LaGrange, trains can turn onto the Lineville Subdivision, east towards Manchester, and Waycross, GA. (and ultimately Savannah and Florida) or west towards Birmingham, AL (then Nashville and all the way to Chicago).The track crossing from left to right is Norfolk Southern’s Cedartown District. It is a remnant of the former Central of Georgia main line from Chattanooga to Savannah. It is FRA excepted trackage (10mph, no passenger moves permitted) and dead ends at Senoia, GA, where there is one customer that is served once or twice a week. To your left, out of the frame, there used to be a connecting track that allowed Central of Georgia passenger trains to exercise trackage rights on the Atlanta and West Point Railway, to and from Atlanta. The Southern’s Crescent used to operate on the A&WP and its sister road, The Western Railway of Alabama from Atlanta to Montgomery and then on the L&N to Mobile and New Orleans, before it was moved to it’s current route through Birmingham, Tuscaloosa and Meridian.
This was a mainline coaling tower, used by A&WP/WofA locomotives. there was no yard The station served both railroads and the foundation is still there to the right of this track. The CofG had its own cinder platform to the right as well, and the remnants of it are still there.
Probably the way I could include these sort of details on my railroad is with the Carbon Coal Company’s power plant, abandoned due to local regulation.
Here is a satellite view of the ex-D&RGW west of Grand Junction where a realignment has left a former ROW scar on the south side of the present line. Following the line either east or west of this point shows other realignments. You might need to tap the satellite icon on the lower left corner.