Former C&O branch runs by the house; former VGN mainline is about 5 miles away and former C&O mainline a little bit further. Lots of coal cars…
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I live in the Kanas City metro area so I see BNSF, UP, NS, KCS, and probably some others, but here in eastern Jackson County that’s what I see most of.
Ed
CSX Tampa. Once and a while there is something from UP.
Greensburg, Pa., is located at MP 322 of the original (Philadelphia-Pittsburgh) PRR mainline, 30+ miles East of Pittsburgh.
Once 4-tracked, 2 tracks now run between the twin platforms; Amtrak #40/41 Three Rivers and #43/44 Pennsylvanian each stop daily in both dircetions.
Currently owned by Norfolk Southern Corporation, we see between 45-75 trains a day. Altho NS is installing color-light signals throughout the area, there are STILL a set of “as-God-intended” PRR-style position-light signals visible from the Penn Station.
Just East of the station ‘was’ SW Junction, the connection to the PRR South Western branch, torn-out in the late '50s/early '60s. Formerly the site of ‘SW Tower’, the ‘duck-under’ is now part of a bicycle trail.
3 miles West of the station is ‘CP RADE’, the remaining connection to the SW branch. Now with color-light signals, in PRR-days, it was ‘RG Tower’.
This branch is now operated by the South Western Pennsylvania (SWP) Railroad, running thru Youngwood, and also inter-changing with B&O (CSX) in Connellsville, Pa., and serves the SONY/USA TV-plant in New Stanton, Pa.
GT now CN.
Now it is the Gillford Lines or something like that, it use to be MEC
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I’m really lucky! I live in Tolono,Il-in the central part of the state. I can look out my front window and see, a half mile to the north, an east-west line on which I usually will see lots of UP and BNSF traffic–lots of intermodal! A half mile to the west is a north-south line, on which I get to see lots of CN,IC, NS, Wisconsin Central, and Amtrak. I even get to see some E,J, & E freight cars (one of the 4 lines I model). Now, if only my house were a little closer!
I have 3 railroads in my area. NS Southern Tier line, NYSW Binghamton/ Syracuse/ Utica line and CP’s D&H line. The traffic is not heavy but enough to keep me on my toes with three railrad and CN trains on trackage rights. But it sometimes seems that when I have some time to railfan they stop all the trains. I have spent 3hrs line side and seen nothing or 15 min and seen 4 trains so I never know what I will find.
I grew up south of Minneapolis, MN in Bloomington. The rail line in this area was the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern. I think this was absorbed into the Soo Line and then Canadian Pacific or National. Now I live in Northern MN. I am 30 miles away from any rail. However, these rails are where the Northern Pacific and Great Northern shared trackage. This then became the Burlington Northern and is now the BNSF. There are lots of coal unit and container unit trains heading both ways. What is nice, is I am 39 miles away from Detroit Lakes where I can get on Amtrak around three in the morning heading in either direction and have done so. The west bound is only 20 minutes before the east bound.
Ahh someone else that feels exactly the same way I do. Glad to hear I’m not alone. [:D]