Hello,
Anyone live near a railroad line?
I live near what now is BNSF between Tomball TX and Houston.
Still get get excited when I hear the horn or get caught by the train at the grade crossing.
I do miss the old BN and CRIP.
Mark
Doesn’t everyone??? Oh, that was back in the 50’s when there was train service to almost every town, Gee, exactly the way it is in Europe now.
I live a couple blocks from TWO different railroad lines in Peru, Illinois. One is the old Rock Island line, now currently used by CSX and the Iowa Interstate RR (IAIS). The other is (was) CB&Q/BN, but I read just recently they have abandoned/sold the line to Illinois RailNET. Both lines run along the north side of the Illinois River here.
I live by CSX and CP’s mainline to Detroit and the local shortline, Grand Rapids Eastern.
I live 1/8 of a mile from an NS line, there is a bunch of trees in the way so I can’t see the tracks. [:(]
The DM&IR is only a block from my house and the BNSF is about a half mile from my house now. When I was a kid I grew up between the DM&IR tracks three blocks above of my house and the DWP 3 blocks below my house and the Soo Line a half mile below my house. The BN was a mile from my house.
There used to be the end of a steam locomotive reversing wye in the woods behind my house. The Wisconsin Central used it for years to store rolling stock. When the CN bought the WC, they tore it up. I live in a small town and there is one CN mainline flowing through it about a quarter mile from me. Plus another about a mile from me in the distant fields. you can hear the trains pretty clearly at night.
I’m less than 2 miles from the CSX mainline that runs from Tampa to New York. CSX and Amtrak trains zip by between 50 and 70 mph.
However, when the horns blow the trains sound more like they’re 5 blocks away!
No complaints from me.
I live about 3 blocks from a KCS line, formerly a Mid South line, formerly an Illinois Central Gulf line, formerly a GM&O line. [:D]
The BNSF goes through Boulder. Most every night when I lay in bed, I can hear the horn of a freight train rolling through. It’s music to go to sleep to [:)]
The other day, I was with some buddies out driving around and we got stopped by one of those BNSF freights. They sat there and complained about having the trip interrupted and how long the train was, but I sat there quitely thrilled and enjoyed watching the freight cars go by. I don’t get to see enough of that stuff these days!
Cheers,
There used to be many railroads where I live–Southern Pacific (now UP), Western Pacific (now UP), Sacramento Northern (now UP), and Central California Traction (replaced by UP.) I live about a mile from the UP, formerly WP, north/south mainline. While most of the traffic through town is UP, occasionally we get BNSF traffic (saw a great combo this weekend–a quadruple-header, pulled by one engine in BN green, one in AT&SF “Blue Bonnet”, one in “Warbonnet”, and one in BNSF orange!)
There is also a light-rail (trolley) line that runs along former SP right-of-way a few blocks away, and one of the world’s best railroad museums downtown!
California Northern and Yolo Short Line tracks are a few miles out of town.
I have a NS/Amtrak line about 10 blocks from my house.
Reed
I have a CSX spur across the street from my house, and live 5 minutes from the CSX DeWitt NY Yard
I live 1/2 block from the BNSF Topeka Sub in Topeka
Ch
I’m within a very short drive of the UP freight yard in Roseville. In fact, when the breeze is blowing right, I can hear them making up trains. But I spent a lot of my youth being able to look down the hill into Truckee, CA, when SP was still slugging about 40 trains a day through their Donner Pass Line with Cab-forwards. Now THAT was a time!
Tom
Union Pacific RR.
The UP, former MP, former T&P, main line west out of Fort Worth cuts our ranch in half. Were at mp270. Our crossing is 269.9. When I’m working the fields I can take a train break and watch them go by. About 30+ per day.
pedm; Sounds like your in a good spot. How is the traffic since the take over?
Paul
Duluth, Superior, & Southeastern
“The Superior Route”
Avoid the perils of the sea. Take the train
KCS is a 1/4 mile from my house
although I saw a UP run through a week ago
which I thought was odd
i have a UP line 2 blocks down the street to my north. i can hear the whistle like its next to my house most of the time. when i’m at home and its day light and my car is sitting outside i’ll try and get to a spot where i can see the train and take some pictures. usually i get there in time to see it coming, other times i have to play major catch up.
I live about 100 yards from Florida Eastcoast RR. Very boring trains, mainly very long trains hauling sand north.