Besides the ones in Alaska and Hawaii?
I think the Reader is when it lost its connection. Possibly some other tourist roads like EBT, the Colorado narrow gauge, funicular.
I don’t know about freight revenue roads. Do know there used to be the DeGray RR in Arkansas that was an isolated logging operation.
Dave Vergun
Dave,
The Black Mesa & Lake Powell is isolated. It is electric and its sole purpose is to haul coal from mine to power plant. It is in the Arizona or New Mexico or Utah area,but I am not sure which one it is in.
Jay
…Some noises are being heard among the static now once again of a possible project to finally connect Alaska RR with the lower 48 but for sure nothing really official that I’ve heard.
Bonanza/ Deseret Western RR (Coal Mine to Power Plant) NE Colorado
(Bonanza, UT to near Rangely, CO)
Lake Powell & Black Mesa/ Navajo RR (Coal Mine to Power Plant) NE Arizona, goes from Page, AZ towards the Four Corners Area…
Colorado, Leadville & Southern (Leadville, CO…ex-BN Climax mine run) is now disconnected, at least for a while
Durango & Silverton is disconnected since 1969
there is a coal mine operation in western pa. that goes from the mine to the river about 18 miles that has no connection to any othewr RR it use sd 40-2. it starts at garats fort pa to the mon river
Most subway lines are
BART in the San Francisco Bay area is isolated because it was built to 5’ gauge instead of Standard Gauge. (correction BART is 5’-6" gauge)
The Sacramento Southern, a museum/tourist line in “Old Town” Sacramento CA became isolated when the crossing of the UP main line connecting it to the UP yards/shops was removed. In addition to its tourist operation it has a freight customer. To interchange with the UP a temporary rail ramp is placed crossing the UP main.
There are five railroads in Northern Quebec that surve the iron ore industry. Quebec Cartier, QNS&L, Arnold, Walbash Lake, QIT.
-Justin
The Mt Washington Cog Railway. in New Hampshire
Yup, that’s what I’ve heard too.
It sounds to me like CN will be getting in charge of that as soon as (if) the competition bureau accepts the takeover of BC Rail…
It’ll be neat to see happen, if it does.
Muskingum Electric in Ohio was one I believe
THe rail road to Newport, RI is isolated on the acount of an out of service swing bridge in Tiverton RI.
Hey Dave, imagine meeting you here. You and I seem to think alot alike (you might want to get that checked).
I have 2 pentrex videos on Eastern Quebec Ore lines about the lines mc367 mentioned. They are all pretty much isolated, hauling ore from mine to Port Cartier. You might want to check them out… after you get that thinking alike thing checked, that is.
US Gypsum narrow gauge line in southern Calif.; runs to Plaster City for transloading to standard gauge UP (SP/SD&AE).
Reserve Mining and Erie Mining in northern Minnesota were isolated from the rail network, but both are now closed?
Staten Island Rapid Transit (whatever it is called now) was disconnected from the main lines for a while, but I think that connection is being rebuilt…
I saw that movie with the Cartier Railway, but I have never been able to track down the second video.
I got the Cartier one at my local library, but they didn’t have the other one.
Great movie, though, I recommend it to everyone.
Interesting enough, I heard that they now run Engineer Only Trains.
If you like the tape you’ll love the real thing! I was able to get there three times before the GE’s showed up, what a show. The QNS&L (which never did get to see) dose run with engineer only trains, but as far as I know the Cartier is still a two man crew.
One railroad i would like to see up there is the electric railway near Labador City on the Quebec/Labador Border. That is also on the second tape, they run mine Trains with no crew and remote control locomotives. Like a conveyor belt system more then a train. Intresting stuff in the North woods of Quebec, well worth the trip, and its a Beautiful part of the country.
-Justin Franz
macguy-The second vid is still listed in the Pentrex catalogue, try to get your library to order it. It is a great video, and really fun to watch.
mc367- I’m jealous, that would be a great trip on so many different levels.Sure is pretty country. And you saw the Alcos. You are soooooo lucky.
I always thought that the Cartier would be the PERFECT model RR, 2 reverse loops with ore flood loaders and rotary dumps,about 10 passing sidings between, with isolated camps and then there are those Alcos. In fact, I watch that vid about every other month.
See ya, folks.
The SIRT connection is being rebuilt for freight service and it will probably be Conrail Shared Assets for both CS and NS, but who can tell?
The New York City subway system had freight rail connections with the LIRR at several points in Brooklyn and still has one with New York Dock and New York and Atlantic in the Bay Ridge area. The IRT used to have a 3rd Avenue El connection for the whole IRT at the Willis Avenue Branch just north of the Harlem River, but now the “A FDivision” is connected to the rest of the World via the Concourse Yard’s connection to the “B” Division (the old IND and BMT that have been integrated since “Chrystie Street” and “Ditmas Avenue” many years ago). The “South Brooklyn Railway” was a Transit Authority, formerly BMT, subsidiary that regularly handled freight. At one time the IRT subway in Brooklyn MAY have had a connection at the LIRR’s Flatbush and Atlantic Avenue Terminal (saw the roadbed many times) so August Belmont’s private car MInneola, now at the Branford Electric Railway Association’s Shore Line Trolley Museum, could tour both systems.
Doesn’t Chicago’s CTA still have a connection near Skokie Shops?
Philadelphia’s Broad Street Subway has a rail connection to the Delaware Port Authority’s Franklin Bridge-Camden-Lindenwold line at Ridge-8th Street Station, and then there is a connection to New Jersey Transit’s Atlantic City Line (formerly used by Amtrak) at Lindelwold
I had forgotten about special-case harbor railroads. New York used to have some isolated ones that were not connected to the NYC westside line, accessible only by car ferry.
And, there used to be one in an Alaskan port city that I think has since been abandoned.
I don’t know if the Staten Island subway is connected to anything or not.
Also, there may be some light industrial railways, possibly narrow gauge, serving industries today. Also some semi-railroads, which feature tracked systems to move trains or boats to a harbor. These latter two are very interesting and are rarely if ever modeled.
Dave Vergun
CTA also has a connection just south of 63rd St with the former PRR.
Reserve Mining and Erie Mining were both private haulers but did have interchange points with DMIR.