Just out of curiosity, and for something to talk about, how close do you live to the train tracks and which railroad runs there?
I live about 50’ from the only remaining active part of the old KD subdivision of the CNW; about 1/2 mile from the Milwaukee sub of the UP; and about 1 mile from the C&M sub of the CP, all in Kenosha County, WI.
I live directly above the former PRR, Penn Central, and Conrail- currently NS mainline between Altoona and Cresson, PA, Close to horseshoe curve. I reside above The Gallitzin Tunnels, exactly in the middle of them. I can go east or west for about 1/4 mile and there is the Railroad, and if I were to dig a very deep hole in my yard, I would also be able to see the RAilroad. The interesting part is listening to the Trains, the hill used to be all bare, no trees or growth, but now it is thick as ever, and you can’t actually see any tracks from my house, but you can hear the trains all day and night. You must have a good ear to determine what is what, and what tunnel it is entering/exiting. There are 2 seperate tunnels, the Gallitzin Tunnel, and the Portage Tunnel. When I am home, there is usually not a day goes by I don’t stroll down over the hill (east end) to watch a few trains.
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I grew up about 150 yards from the South Shore Line. Behind its embankment was the CWI (EL, MON, C&O) and NKP mainlines. PRR Bernice Cutoff was about a mile away to the east.
I currently live about a mile south of the crest of Clearing Yard’s bi-directional hump. The IHB is about 2 miles to the west. Metra’s Southwest Service is 3 miles to the south and serves as my ride to work.
I regularly hear the squeals from the retarders at Clearing and often hear horns from just about anywhere.
I grew up right next to a busy Frisco main line, but now live about a half mile from a U P mainline (ex MO PAC).
I live about 15mi. from the old SP main line that runs thru Woodland Ca. that California Northern, (a short line) operates and about 55mi from the Roseville Ca. yard and loco shop. [:(][:(!][V][}:)]
IT SUCKS !!!
Closest tracks are about 4 miles away. My terminal is about 72 miles away in the other direction. Just right for a 1 1/2 hour call…
LC
North/South BNSF is 1/2 block away from my home. Another BNSF line is 20 feet outside my office window. My summer home is 50 feet away from East/West BNSF very very busy double set of tracks.
I used to live 50’ from Union Pacifics Jefferson City Sub in the City of Kirkwood. but know I am 3/4 of a mile away from the BNSF Hannible sub. and before I moved to missouri, I lived along the BNSF Clovis Sub…
Right beside C&O branch line; about 4 miles away from old VGN main line; 10 miles from C&O main line.
Grew up 1 mile from Boston and Maine; granny lived right beside the New Haven’s Shore Line.
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I used to live less than a 1/2 mile from the WSOR line (nee MILW) in Madison, WI. Now, I live about a 20 minute drive from the BN main along the Mississippi R. and about 30 - 40 minutes from lots of train traffic in the Twin Cities. Closest passenger station: Red Wing, MN - a real pretty river town.
Well, I live about 11 blocks from some tracks, about 3 miles from where I watch trains and in nice weather, when the windows are open - right in the street below the bedroom window!
La Moo
I live about 150 ft from a CSX mainline. It’s nice to be able to sit on the front porch and railfan!
Derrick
I was born and raised about a quarter of a mile from the CMStP&P (now CP) Lakewood Branch in Chicago but now live where I can hear and see (top half only) UP, Amtrak and AT&SF trains passing through Richmond, California on the ex-SP line. Also lived a few years in Royal Oak, Mich. a block from the GTW station during the switch from steam to diesel.
About 15km from the WHRC (shortline gypsum and grain hauler) and about 100km (60mi) from the CN main at Windsor Junction outside Halifax. Both of these are much too far away for my liking.
Jeff
Nearest RR to where I live now is probably NS (ex-Southern) line from Manassas, VA to Washington, DC. Grew up about 15 miles from Seaboard Air Line’s line from Savannah, GA to Montgomery (I think) AL. My wife’s parents’ backyard backs up to the old SAL’s secondary main from Jacksonville to Chattahoochee, FL, which is now CSX’s line from Jax to New Orleans.
MP 87 Candain Pacific Railway’s Galt Subdivision. It is preactically my back yard! Then the station and yard id less then a kilometer away. Good spot for railfanning.
Then there is the CN Dundas Sub on the other side of town. Also great for railfanning!
I live about a mile from NS’s Pittsburgh Line and can hear eastbounds grinding upgrade and either direction blowing for the Railroad St. crossing in Wegley.Also,my church is located a block away from the same line and I work in NS’s former Pitcairn Yard,now known as the Pittsburgh Intermodal Terminal,loading & unloading the trains and repairing trailers & chassis. It’s a good thing I like trains!Good luck and stay safe.
At home I am about 6 miles north of the Busy NS Decatur mainline. About 2 miles south of the shortline Decatur Junction.
At School I am literally about 200 feet from the CNIC mainline going through Carbondale, Illinois.
About a half mile from the WC/CN Shops Yard in North Fond du Lac, WI.[8D]
I live 0.62 miles from UP’s ex-CNW east-west main line, which is to the north of me (that’s via the streets; as the crow flies it’s probably a half mile).
Further north is CN’s ex-CC&P line, which I can reach as well by going east less than five miles.
BNSF’s ex-BN main line is about six miles to the south.
EJ&E is less than 12 miles west (using streets that come as close to the UP as possible!).
IHB is 10 miles or so to the east, measured over bicycle trails that utilize portions of one or two now-abandoned railroad main lines. In another three or four miles I hit the WC.
I’m surrounded! Please don’t feel too sorry for me.
Carl