Toledo would be neat also.
I am looking for the tracplan of Spokane area to model GN in HO scale. Can anyone please help me?
New Orleans would be great. I have been looking over my 30+ year collection of Trains Mags, and N.O. has really been ignored.
I enjoy the Trackside Guide in your magazine. At times it does seem like a lot of reading, but the photos are great. As for everyone who wants to see their town or city in the next issue: be patient! I’d love to see Florida in Trains as a Trackside Guide, but all we have is the Jacksonville area as a multi-rail center and compared to other areas, I know I’ll be waiting a looong time to see this area in the Guide.
Chattanooga,TN…or the home of the Chattanooga Choo-Choo.
5 NS lines and a CSXT main.
I THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE GUIDES FOR ALL CITYS THAT HAVE A YARD WETHER BIG OR SMALL UN LESS ITS E ST LOUIS ILL THE ONLY SHOTS AROUND THERE ARE NOT FROM CAMERAS BUT CHICAGO ST LOUIS CALGERY ALBERTA AND A LOT OF OTHER PLACES NEED GUIDES THERE IS A LOT OF HOT LINES
Anyone who thinks Railpace started the Trackside Guide criteria obviously doesn’t know about Chicago Railfan/Publisher John Swajkart who has had trackside guides for Chicago, Kansas City, and St. Louis guides available for the last 10 years. The Chicago Chapter National Railway Historical Society owns a copy of John’s Trackside Guide to Chicago that dates before Amtrak.
Steam Powered Video puts out a Pacific Northwest edition oftheir Atlas books which covers the Spokane Area including the Great Northern Hillyard and the mainline from Newport into Spokane. Also look at Microsoft Streets & Trips so you can follow the right-of-way through Spokane.
I was told that the “Trackside Guide to Memphis” was accpeted for publication, but has been delayed for a number of reasons. My encouragement would be to do 2 a year in certain months; that way we know when they are coming and can anticipate it. I always look to see if a trackside has been published in my back issue collection if I am visiting the area soon. Course, I would like to see “Hot Spots” come back (2 page profile) because they meant alot to me also. Hope the new TRAINS editor picks up on publishing these old gems series in the issues in the future.
I’m with you Bruce. Been looking for a Memphis Trackside Guide for some time now.
i enjoy the trackside guides very much…i live in australia and enjoy reading about other cities and following the different railroads across the page…when i visit america i use the maps as guides… i must agree with one of the forum members and say too much european…i like the articles about the railroads of central america etc however if i wanted european railroads i would buy european magazines…i would love to see more articles about modern railroadsand less about old stuff, if i wanted steamers and articles about the old days i would buy classic trains…Q.how many times does classic trains have articles about double stackers…peter
I, too, have really enjoyed the Trackside guides in Trains. I would like to see at least 2 a year done for US and Canadian cities. I like seeing what is going on in cities around the country that I’m not familiar with, but I’d also like to see guides done for cities close to me. Places like Oakland/Fremont or Sacramento/Roseville. I’m really hoping that this is not a series that has gone by the wayside.
Just go to Mapquest. Ask for maps. Put in Spokane Wa & hit the enter key. When the map comes up hit the 2nd bar from the top on the right & find the tracks & you are in biz. Good hunting. [:D]
MHO opinion is that LAX or Colton would have been a far greater choice then Cinncy. [:D]
Talking about the Colton area, in August, 1992 CTC Board had an article about the West Colton Yard, complete with track map inside the yard.
For Los Angeles, I think Sam Pottinger’s STEEL RAILS WEST PRESENTS: may have a Los Angeles rail map and guide. Unfortunately I don’t has any website information about how to get the address for this guide.
Thanks for your assistance but I was saying Trains Magazine should have done articles on such a key area as LAX [:)]
To everyone: there are a lot of interesting things to see in every part of this country, along with some of the webpages that people are introducing to check out; but I checked in with a Steam Railroad group to see if there were any maps of any of the old roads, and this is where they told me to go look:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtm/rrhtml/rrhome.htm. Check it out and maybe you all will find the answers to all of or most of your questions.
ralph zimmer ralphn9kym@aol.com
Ralph Zimmer suggested a Library of Congress link, but it’s broken. Sorry folks.
I checked again, and the URL was changed. For Library of Congress railroad maps, try:
Did a Trackside Guide/Hot Spot ever get printed for Toledo?