During the White Sox Mariners game on Wednesday night, some enterprising cameraman set up a camera to show the trains and whenever a train came through, if there wasn’t much action in the game the director would switch to a shot of the train. First was a double-stack, later an Amtrak train with Superliners. What line runs through there and does it actually pass under part of the stadium? It looked that way from the shots, but it was dark and a little hard to tell. This definately beats Houston’s toy train[:D][:D]
Both the Baseball and Football stadiums sit on the land one occupied by the Seattle Dome – the one with the falling ceiling.
They also share their “front door” areas with Seattle’s King Street Station - where all passenger trains stop. The foundation of Safeco Field comes downright close to the clearance line of the station lead.
And, there is only one rail line through Seattle, no matter who runs on it. BNSF.
What is sad is Enron Field…uh, I mean MinuteMaid park…or whatever the heck they are going to call it this year, sits on top of the old Congress Yard and Union Station, once home to UP, MoPac, Santa Fe and IGN passenger trains, and home terminal for the cities trolly system, and the Houston North Shore railroad, the last electric interurban built in the US…not to mention office space for the Houston Belt and Terminal, and the Port Terminal Railroad…our former offices are now a gift shop, selling overpriced tee shirts and jerseys, and big foam rubber hands…and the beat goes on.
The stadium roof opens up by sliding over the tracks. I have a photo of a train passing under the open roof. The funny thing is that when a northbound train blows for the crossing next to the stadium, the roof deflects the echo into the stadium, making it particularly noticeable during the game. I’m not sure if his was by design or not. The line is BNSF’s north-south mainline that runs generally from Everett -Seattle-Tacoma-Portland. Mostly that trains that pass the stadium are the Amtrak Cascade Corridor trains and the Coast Startlights, the Sounder Commuter Service, BNSF intermodal trains coming and going from the various ports and intermodal yards in the Puget Sound area, and finally BNSF manifest traffic coming and going from Canada or the northern Puget Sound area. I almost forgot the occasional grain load heading the the export elevator just north of downtown, and the occasional grain empty heading to Spokane via Steven’s.
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You forgot FWD and CRIG (B-RI)!! Zephyrs and Rockets!
Back when the Philadelphia Phillies played their spring training games at Clearwater, FL’s Jack Russell Stadium, I would listen to games from there on the radio and I could hear the horns of trains on the rail line (probably SCL but I don’t know who owns that line now) that came within two blocks of JRS.
One time when going to a Baltimore Ravens game at (what I choose to call) Ravens Stadium, I was making my way from my group’s bus up towards the stadium and had to wait for a southbound CSX train to make its way through the crossing before I could get to the stadium a block beyond the crossing. I’ve also seen activity on the Locust Point CSX line from high up in the upper deck at Ravens Stadium.
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I remember a movie called “Brewster’s Millions”. In it the tracks came thru the ball field. Was or is this a real ball park or one for the movie. Thanks, Railroad65