SADLY: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14667455 Mason Street claims another one (and yes, headline and story do not match, typical yellow press) Mason Street is where BNSF’s Front Range Sub. /Old C&S Ft. Collins District, does its street-running.
Not sure if this has been mentioned or not, but there’s also Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio where CSX’s former Conrail line from Toledo to Columbus passes on the west edge of campus. Of course, when I looked for an apartment when I was in grad school up there, I looked for a place with a view. [:)]
Kevin
The joint Seaboard Air Line/ Southern line ran through NC State Campus in Raleigh. Now CSX & NS (NC RR w/lease to NS)
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (WAHOOWAH!). Former SOU now NS line between Alexandria VA and Atlanta runs just east of the UVA Grounds. Also, the former C&O, later CSX now some bloody short line the name of which I no longer recall, over which ran the George Washington and Sportsman, C&Os two premier passenger trains, plus a few desultory freights, crosses the NS main a half-mile east of campus and runs west from downtown Charlottesville tangent to the UVA Grounds.
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University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, located a half mile east of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor Kingston, RI station…
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University of Chicago. Lies majestically along the majestic Midway in south-side Chi-Town, the east side of which is bounded by the elevated tracks of METRA Electric, once the four-track IC.
*Randolph-Macon College, Ashland VA. CSX’s RF&P line runs through the middle of town and right past this fine liberal arts institution.
The short line is the Buckingham Branch. The C&O’s F.F.V., also a good train, ran through Charlottesville.
Mostly ex-Pacific Electric ROW, soon to return as the LACMTA light rail Expo Line. Just to the north, the LACMTA Blue Line passes the large Los Angeles Trade-Technical College campus.
The Muni M line runs adjacent to San Francisco State University.
There is a set of tracks next to the campus of Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, KS. I am not sure of who owns the line. My sister is enrolled there and complains of the noise. I don’t know why she is complaining, she has lived really close to set of tracks all of her life.
The University of Alabama! Location, Tuscaloosa, AL. Norfolk Southern does run right beside the campus, right beside the softball fields too. It might run beside the practice fields too. You might could count KCS in the mix too as NS and KCS interchange not too far from there. You can easily hear a train thread its way through T-Town in the stands of Bryant-Denny Stadium, well that is when its not game day.
Roll Tide!
WATCO/ SE Kansas & Oklahoma RR = SEKO (Pittsburg, Gorillas & all, is home to WATCO and the Webb family)
The CSX (ex-NYC “St. Lawrence Div”, né RW&O) runs thru Canton, NY on the west side of the St. Lawrence U./SUNY-Canton campii (??? Campuses?). The village is on the west side. I rode the “night train” (the “Canton Creeper”, with Pullman sleepers) and the day train (a “Beeliner” [RDC, or two]) on many occasions to/from Westchester, either via Syracuse or Utica to/from Watertown.
Last time I was at the USMA (“West Point”), the station was still there and in very good shape (it is a stone building), protected by a very tasteful wrought iron fence, and is easily driven to. Just look for a road going downhill. Many-a football special departed this station.
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.
The Amtrak Passenger Station though is east of the WMU campus in downtown Kalamazoo.
Andrew
Oh, there’s so many! PRR into Princeton, NJ, the B&O through WVA Weslyan in Buckhannon, the LV’s EC&N at Cornell (gone), DL&W at had Drew U. at Madison, Fairligh Dickenson and St. Elizabeth’s at Convent Sta. How close to Alfred is the old Erie passenger main? And Elmira College sitting atop the knoll at Fifth Street. Can’t foreget the West Shore under and alongside West Point! I think this thread has a long way to go!
University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH, USA has an Amtrak station for the Downeaster. It is convenient to the New England Center where many of the UNH events occur.
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY in Boston has two rail lines slicing through the campus. Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor/MBTA Commuter Rail Line and the MBTA Orange Line cuts through the eastern half of the campus while the MBTA’s Green Line E-Branch runs down the middle of street in the western half of the campus. Northeastern University has for better or for worse its own commuter rail station (Ruggles) which is a great spot for railfanning after a class.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY has the MBTA Green Line B-Branch running through the middle of their campus plus MBTA’s Worcester Communter Line/ CSX’s ex-Beacon Yard on its northside.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUATE OF TECHNOLOGY has a lightly used branch line also cutting its campus in half. The MBTA and Amtrak use the branch line to transfer equipment between South Station and North Station.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY has Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor slicing through the southern part of it’s campus. NJT/Amtrak trains stop at the New Brunswick train station.
University of Oregon in Eugene
The UP mainline runs between the steam heat plant and a soccer field on the north edge of campus.
James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA - NS runs a coal train through the middle of campus.
I think there is a community college campus in Denver just west of Union Station wrapped by someone’s tracks. Don’t know if it’s UP’s tracks or BNSF’s, though.
Montclair State University in New Jersey is located on the New Jersey Transit Boonton Line. There are two stations on campus. The original station was Montclair Heights. At one time the station building was supposed to be purchased from the erie Lackawanna for use as a student recreation center. The station is still in use although the original building burned down before the sale took place. The new station on campus has a five story parking garage and serves as the transfer point between the diesel powered and electrified trains. A shuttle bus is available to bring students to the central part of the campus from the station.
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The CSX ex WM “Dutch Line” and the Gettysburg Northern both abut the Gettysburg College campus in GBG, PA. In earlier years, the Gety ran thru the campus, but the college and the RR exchanged some property to facilitate the new football field. Now, the Gbg Northern runs down the west side of the field to I/C with CSX and board passenagers @ the station. ( Students seem to take offense at having to vacate the tracks for tourist trains operating on home-game Saturdays.) CSX ex WM Lurgan Branch may still be through the Shippensburg College in South Central PA. The Arkansas & Missouri passes by the Fayettevlle campus, U of Arkansas… RetGM
RTD’s Auraria line and UPRR’s ex-DRGW Burnham Lead (demoted original main line MP 0-4, now an industrial lead) run along the extreme west side of the campus.
Auraria Campus (Metropolitan State College at Denver + CU-Denver + Denver University -Auraria)…not a community college, all are 4Yr regional institutions.