What are the Top 5 most traveled railroad lines in the US?
Annual gross tonnage and number of train movements per day are the questions I have.
Heavy rail, the ones where you get to see alot of the long freight trains go by.
I meant to ask you what is the Top 5 most railroad lines where you get to see a ton of the long freight trains go by?
I apologize for the confusion, I only wanted the ones with the freight routes, I wouldn’t mind seeing an Amtrak or a commuter train on the freight routes, I wanted to know what is some of the most traveled freight trains that goes by in certain towns with the shortest waits in between the freight trains, that’s what I’m looking for, I like to count the freight cars and see how often the trains go by in an hour’s length of time.
Willard Subdivision of CSX between Fostoria and Deshler, Ohio must be one.
BNSF’s Chicago Racetrak must be high on the list. The hourly commuters add up, + 3 Amtrak + freight.
This may be a question that’s impossible to answer. If you set up say at
La Grange Road & counted how many trains operate in each direction on a weekday?
Rochelle’s Railroad Park has GOTTA be in the Top Ten.
If what the questioner wants is total volume of freight traffic, wouldn’t UP’s triple track between Gibbon Junction and North Platte be up near the top of the list?
The poor guy only wanted to know where a LOT of long freights trains run …In typical “Foamer Fashion”,Mr. Hemphill convoluted things way beyond what was required…UPRR6737, Don’t apologise to these guys…Good Grief…I am a conductor on the BNSF Transcon out of Needles,California,running both to Barstow,Cal. to the west and to Winslow,Ariz. to the east…We get about 100 trains a day through here,most above 7,000 feet long,many going west with helpers or distrubuted power on the rear,or BOTH …GRAIN trains usually have 4 head -end units, 3 mid train units & 2 or 3 on the rear…9 to 10 DASH-9,s totally …
This is BIG TIME railroading on the Needles Sub.
Many stack trains (intermodal) have helpers,some trains exceed 8,000 feet long…
By the way,we go 70MPH with these monsters across the desert…IT MAKES EASTERN RAILROADING LOOK LAME, HUH…Hope this helps…
Lighten up,my friend,you know that a few take some of this WAY too seriously…You seem to be highly educated to the business aspects of railroading( YES,I have heard of you)…I sometimes wonder of your knowledge of RR operations,especially from a Train Crews point of view…Sorry,I could not resist the “Foamer” label…You must admit, We on the transcon see railroading not seen in the east…
By the way,A LOT of NS & CSX guys would kill to work out here for the long mileage paying jobs we have…They don’t want to give up the seniority they have working in the MINOR leagues… .Peace…
MWH-
Did you get to run any of your Mountain Diesel Transportation F units on the WYCO ?
The railroad tracks that went at the Chicago Racetrack, wasn’t the line formerly used by Burlington Northern or ATSF?
About how many times per day (on average) would you see a train at the Chicago Racetrack?
BNSF’s Chicago Racetrak must be high on the list. The hourly commuters add up, + 3 Amtrak + freight.
This may be a question that’s impossible to answer. If you set up say at
La Grange Road & counted how many trains operate in each direction on a weekday?
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I really appreciate your input about where a good place to go if you wanna see alot of trains go by, plus I do hear that the BNSF (Santa Fe) line from LA to Chicago is quite a heavily travelled railroad, I would love to visit anywhere from Barstow to the Needles Sub to watch the trains go by, I’ve seen photos of those areas and they sure have a ton of trains go by there, I also understand that it can be really hot going in those areas from late spring to the early fall season.
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The poor guy only wanted to know where a LOT of long freights trains run …In typical “Foamer Fashion”,Mr. Hemphill convoluted things way beyond what was required…UPRR6737, Don’t apologise to these guys…Good Grief…I am a conductor on the BNSF Transcon out of Needles,California,running both to Barstow,Cal. to the west and to Winslow,Ariz. to the east…We get about 100 trains a day through here,most above 7,000 feet long,many going west with helpers or distrubuted power on the rear,or BOTH …GRAIN trains usually have 4 head -end units, 3 mid train units & 2 or 3 on the rear…9 to 10 DASH-9,s totally …
This is BIG TIME railroading on the Needles Sub.
Many stack trains (intermodal) have helpers,some trains exceed 8,000 feet long…
By the way,we go 70MPH with these monsters across the desert…IT MAKES EASTERN RAILROADING LOOK LAME, HUH…Hope this helps…
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I hear alot of great things about Rochelle’s railroad park, what kind of trains do they have there? I do know that the UP line was formerly used by CNW and the BNSF was formerly used by BN, I once thought that the BNSF line in Rochelle was formerly used by ATSF.
A typical location on one of the four-track main lines of the New York City subway system sees about 800 trains a day counting all thracks Both directions). Harrison, east of Newwark on the NEC, sees about 400 trains a day, counting PATH, NJT, and Amtrak.
Top 5 for number of road trains operated on NS are
Chicago to Cleveland
Conway to Harrisburg
Altanta to Chattanooga
Danville KY to Oakdale
Decatur IL to Peru
Yes I tried pacing one between Needles & Barstow going WB & I was doing 80MPH & he was pulling away until he hit a caution lite & finally slowed so I finally was able to catch & pass him. I caught him again going thru Daggett going at a decent pace as well. Since you are a conductor more/less on average how fast are the EBers going on the most south track @ Daggett? Also more/less how fast on average are the WBers going when they have the green signals also @ Daggett?
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I agree with teamdon about the Needles Subdivision on the Mojave Desert in California. I live in Helendale, CA just west of Barstow and we get about 122 trains a day (BNSF & UP combined) on a double track main through here on the way to Cajon Pass. I have watched many trains here, Cajon Pass, Tehachapi Pass ( just over an hour away) and also out on the desert east of Barstow all the way to Needles. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else for train watching all year around !
Yessiree I come from SE Florida to your area EVERY year to trainwatch. I will be there next week again. So I agree with your comments entirely. I keep telling my other half I am going to buy one of the houses right across the street from the juncture point of the UPRR & BNSF @ Daggett. [:o)][:p][:)]
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