As a curiosity, I am looking for streets named after the railroad’s INITIALS. Santa Fe does not count, that is part of the name. Frisco / Nickel Plate / Cotton Belt do not count, they are nick names (I know, NKP became the name).
Espee (SP) is one name that would count. Katy (M-K-T) is another. As a side note, I think Houston has the biggest RR named road in the Katy Freeway, although some "Santa Fe"s travel thru several towns.
So, any other roads named for railroad INITIALS out there?
Phil
Before the Atlantic Coast Line was merged away, there were several Acline streets in this area. I don’t know if any still exist tho. I once saw a mailing address for Mopac Highway for some place in Texas.
There is a Katy St in New Braunfels, Texas. The MKT mainline ran along the street (behind the houses on the “west” side of the street). I am not sure if it was actually named for the Katy, but it makes sense.
Just initials or names? We have a street named after Erie locally, and there are several Lackawanna references out to the west.
Burlington Avenue Lincoln Nebraska - yes, very close to old CBQ tracks, now BNSF
Mooks
18 B&A ave , Derby Maine
Soo road , Byron Wis
Mopac Expressway, Austin, Texas.
Most towns have a railway avenue.here in town we have baltimore ave which runs by the B&O and wabash ave that runs by the M&W(former wabash track).North of willard the is a road called B&O pike that goes along the north side of the yard.
stay safe
joe
I know that there are quite a few streets named after the railroad. I am after streets named after the initials. That Acline probably counts. Burlington would not, same with Erie (railroad name not initials). Wabash, and Baltimore would not count, B&O and B&A would. Mopac and Soo are probably closer to nickname than initials.
And Railroad Ave is just too generic.
Phil
I think it’s Columbus, Ohio, that has a Corr Road (for C&ORR).
There is a WB&A Boulevard in Anne Arundel County, MD south of the the Thurgood Marshall BWI Airport. This road appears to be named after the former Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad, an interurban line linking its namesake cities. The road appears to be on the alignment of the Washington-Baltimore segment of the line
In Fresno County, Calif., there’s SJ&E Road, named for the San Joaquin & Eastern.
This is on the way up into the Sierra Nevada mountains. The line (now long abandoned) was built in connection with the Big Creek hydroelectric project of the Southern California Edison Co.