What kind, if any, of rail line goes through your town? Mine is the NJT
Bergen/Main line. It connects with the southern tier route which, for those of you familiar, means little if any freights. I have to travel about ten miles to see any real trains. Is anyone fortunate enough to have an active mainline that isn`t all commuter trains nearby?
I live at the end of the line. Halifax is the most eastern terminus for CN Intermodal and Via. Dartmouth has a refinery and Auto port as well as a Gypsum dock. Though I don’t get to see much of the trains I do see a lot of Container and Gypsum ships as well as Auto Carriers come and go. The Intermodal forms up in Farview and the Via departs from the South End.
Mine is the Grand Rapids Eastern/ Mid-Michigan/ XConrail. It hooks up with CSX downtown.
Norfolk Southern Cement Secondary.
P.S. The Bergen Line is about the only NJT line I’ve never rode on.
CSX runs one train a day into Decatur,Indiana.Traffic is mainly covered hoppers and tank cars but there are interesting locomotives including road slugs.Back in 1970 the EL ran 15 trains a day,the PC had four and the N&W two a day.
i live in Idaho and the line thats runs through here. its called Idaho Northern & Pacific
they wont give there rights th athearn or kato or ect… called there offices and they said plainly they just wont, oh well just do em my self
Currently, the rail-borne stuff in downtown Sacramento includes the Union Pacific (running over former SP and WP track), RT Metro Light Rail (running over former SP, SN and PG&E track, as well as its own private right-of-way) and the Sacramento Southern Railroad (which is primarily a tourist line run by CSRM, but also carries freight, running on three miles of former SP track, but will go south to Hood REAL SOON NOW!)
used to have a ton of CNW and UP freight trains go through. now we’re down to probably 3-6 trains a day, all UP, and i hate UP.
the only time i go out and get to take pictures is when i go to shows with my friend and thats like 40-50 miles away in Newport Minnesota. its like the CP and BNSF mainlines.
Greetings,
Living just south of Tomball Tx I have seen many interesting roads come by.
The old FW&D and CRIP in the good ole days. Burlington Northern and The Rock was always good train watching.
Now its BNSF but at least 16-20 trains a day.
Even saw a MRL SD40-2 not to long ago.
Mark in Texas
Right now I have Canadian Pacific & Canadian National through town. [:)]
I have to cross the Canadian Pacific to get to work! DARN!!! [;)]
Gordon
I guess I am fortunate. I live on a UP main, former MoPac Sedalia Sub. This one of two parallel mains running from Kansas City to St. Louis in Missouri. This line runs only west-bound freight traffic for UP, mostly empty coal drags headding back to Wyoming to refill, double stack traffic, auto trains, an a bonus Amtrack which runs one train each direction between KC and StL daily. I am also fortunate to have a MOW siding and one local industry, an LPG distributor which receives three or four tankers per week in the winter, on per week the rest of the year. Not bad for a town of only 450, eh?
Ron
The Illinois Central’s Iowa Division goes through town (CN? Who’s that?), and the C&NW (now Borg) dead ends here too (we maybe see one train a week from them). A shortline, Illinois Railnet, has trackage rights and some of it’s own track in town too, and they run as needed.
Sort of sad, considering there used to be seven roads and one trolley line here in the good old days…
[#ditto] I live near the same city as Jetrock.
PS-- Jetrock, have you seen the new RT lightrail cars? Looks like they’re from the future.
The UP runs daily coal trains, and often comes to town to service the local Flour mill, or run covered hoppers through town The tracks are about a block and a half from here. The BNSF also runs through town, crossing about a block from here, but view is obstructed by other houses. Being a BNSF fan they do service a feed pellet plant [:D]…but not real often. [:(]
Abilene Kansas
You hate UP??? How can you? Oh well, you’re probably a BNSF fan, and since I am a UP fan, I can’t talk to you anymore.[:-^] If you’ll excuse me, I must go worship UP[bow][bow][bow][bow][bow][:)][:D].
The nearest rails to my house are those of the new Gold Line from Los Angeles to eastern Pasadena. This used to be the AT&SF’s Pasadena Subdivision. We traded the Pasadena Subdivision for a light rail line!!![:(!][|(][|(][|(][banghead][banghead]The nearest major railroad is the UP (ex-SP) line through Glenale. If you study a map closely, you have a pretty good idea of where I live.
Sincerely,
Daniel
Yeah, I saw them for the first time a year ago when I was scouting out where the old Sacramento Northern’s Swanston branch line ran and stopped by RT’s Swanston light rail servicing/testing facility. Then I saw 'em scuttling around in the middle of the night during the spring and summer while they were testing the cars and the new Meadowview line, now I see 'em all the time downtown. I haven’t taken a ride on them yet but mean to do so Real Soon Now–especially because they go right threw the old WP “Jeffrey Shops” area by Sacramento City College (mostly torn out but there is still some old track used by Sac City’s “Railroad Operation” classes!)
Where I live now, we only have an industrial park served by the UP.
Where I grew up, we had the Chicago & North Western, the Milwaukee Road, and the Soo Line. Then it was just the C&NW and the Soo Line. Eventually we got Wisconsin Central. We also had RTA and then Metra commuter service over the C&NW North West Line.
Today, they have Metra on both the North West Line and the North Central Line, the UP, CPR, and CNR.
CSX (ex Chessie) and CNIC (ex GTW) cross at grade in my town. Enough trains, but boring new power.
I live in the Dallas Metroplex and close by we have UP, BNSF,KCS,AMTRAK, the TRE.
RMax
Norfolk Southern’s Delmarva Secondary (EX - Conrail) which runs through all of Delaware and the eastern shore of Maryland. See website link below ( the one marked local site)