Interesting reading I grew up near there and never heard of this station or the one mile long spur as a kid. Allegedly some of the rail is still in place.
What’s the big deal? You can take Metra to Mars or Metro North to Vahalla.
You may no longer take a train to Gravity, Iowa. You can fly there, if you have a helicopter.
On the Strasburg RR, you can take a train from Intercourse to Paradise. Kind of a short trip, but fun.
Lets see… Moscow,KS; Siberia,CA; Bagdad,CA; Paris, TX; Nowhere & No Name, CO; North Pole, CO, Earth, TX, Cairo, IL … worked or visited in all those places. (and two placenames that the software is pre-disposed to sensor)
Are any of them on here?
http://www.estately.com/blog/2016/09/the-complete-list-of-lewd-sounding-town-names-in-america/
The FEC could have taken you to Jupiter, Florida.
that’s the best trip yet
Maine central ran through China and St. lawrence and atlantic runs through Paris and Norway.
There is a Paris, AR also; went there a number of times.
There is also a Two Egg, FL.
The towns of Wewahumpka and Coleman are near each other in Central FL. Federal Bureau of Prisons built a prison complex between the two, but nearer Wewahumpka. They chose to call it FCC (Federal Correctional Complex) Coleman; guess FCC Wewahumpka just didn’t have the right “ring” to it.
You could go to Denmark, S.C. on three roads–ACL, SOU, and SAL. You can still get there by Amtrak.
There is a Paradise, Mich., but unless there was a logging RR, you couldn’t get there by train. There was a Hell, Mich. which was just off the GTW.
My favourite such destination is Hell, just north of Trondheim in Norway.
I could have visited it but didn’t realise how close it was when I was in Trondheim.
Postcards are sold for English speaking visitors of the freight forwarding shed at Hell station, preferably under snow in winter.
The signs on the shed read “Hell” and “Gods Expedition”…
Peter
B&O on it’s P&W Subdivision went to Mars.
Remeber as a kid (1953-54ish), attending a Pittsburgh Division picnic that was held at a facility at Mars that was adjacent to the tracks - A Westbound coal train was climbing Bakerstown grade - 1 mallet on the head end and 2 mallets on the rear end shoving - cinders fell from the sky for 10 minutes after the train’s passing.
You beat me to it. As I recall, there was a news item when it became possible to direct dial from Hell to Paradise…
At one time, you could take a train from Carthage (NY) to Copenhagen (NY). The village of Copenhagen is located in the township of Denmark…
You could travel to Mexico (NY) by rail at one time, too…
The East End of CSX’s Cumberland Terminal is in Mexico.
I think everyone missed the point of the article which was more the ICE HARVESTING then the name of the station.
Perhaps, but we had a lot more fun with station names. And I also can take Metra to Manhattan, Hollywood or Beverly Hills (Five stations).
We can go there, too.
I think ice is a little heralded commodity - many thousands of tons of it were hauled by the railroads in the days before mechanical refrigeration came to be.
The various lakes in the central Adirondacks provided ice not only for local use, but for use by the NY Central for icing reefers. When I tell folks on the trains that tidbit, it’s usually a “I’d never thought of that before” reaction.
Many areas still do ice cutting each winter, more as a show than anything else.
It wasn’t a rail facility, but the ice house in White Lake, NY burned at one point, leading to local lore about the huge pile of ice that took a long time to finally melt.
Larry,
Why is it that people aren’t aware that the amenities of today weren’t available to the generations before us? I would hazard a guess they didn’t read their history books.