Somerville and Hearne Texas - especially Hearne. On a busy day there’s a train through about every ten minutes…
Tracklayer
somerville MA I like the amtrak
fast Commuter rail
Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited is a daily train that serves Boston from points west along the CSX Boston and Albany line.
http://massroads.com/gallery.php?page=rail_mass
“Hey Budliner”. How’s it going tonight ?.
I thought I was about the only Amtrak fan on the forum… I model it, but it doesn’t run around this area anymore. Oh well. Thanks for the memories…
Tracklayer
MBTA Commuter Rail I see the F40PH
man that thing is cooking
did you see that acela
:O)
Shawmut, Arizona.
A wicked S curve up a grade on the Old SP Sunset route. Killer place to watch 16,000 horsepower pound.
The old WP mainline, downtown Sacramento–the local freight turn, usually pulled by a pair of Geeps (ex-SP or Rio Grande) happens on Wednesday mornings, including paper service to the Sacramento Bee (who pu***he cars into position with a dinky little critter) and a freight interchange with the Sacramento Southern, accomplished via a piece of panel track dropped at a tangent to the UP mainline at the eastern end of the I Street Bridge.
No Budliner. All I’ve ever seen down here where I live was the older type F-40 units pulling the double deck passenger cars on it’s run from Dallas to Houston and back to Dallas again.
Tracklayer
Mt Vernon IL or Princeton IN IF you want to see a little of everything go to MT. Vernon they NS, EVWR = Evansville Western Railway and UP on the UP track i see more NS, CSX, and CN then UP.
Princeton mainly NS and CSX with a little BNSF and CP.
Anywhere there’s a train!
Tom
I wish I new of a good place to go and watch around my area but I dont. Anyone around the Reading PA area that can tell me a good location.
Steve
Folkston, Ga. This location is known as the Folkston Funnel. Just about every train going into or coming out of Florida along the east coast goes through there. It’s a small town and is friendly to rail fanners. They even built a viewing platform with a roof and fans for us to watch from. A lot of the trains have to stop here and wait for higher priority consists to run through. Usually the engineer or conductor will run to a nearby fast food burger joint to grab a bite and sometimes they will come over to the platform to talk with us rail fanners.
Bob DeWoody
Steve-
Isn’t Strasburg close by? And you don’t know where to go to railfan? [:D]
Head West to York, Harrisburg, Lancaster, The NS mainline parallels the Susquenhanna through there and right where the rte 30 bridge crosses the river there are 4 mainline tracks.
I’ve had pretty good luck there at some times and nothing at other times.
I like Brunswick MD. Close to Harpers Ferry, the MD Marc line, and I’ve heard foreign power from the UP, BNSF, etc comes through on occasion. Never seen it myself though.
Was there on Monday, saw 8 CSX trains in about 5.5 hours.
Second the vote for Folkston, GA. Otherwise I enjoy watching the FEC trains run past where I work.
Thanks Shay I forgot about Strasburg LOL
Fostoria, Ohio, the iron triangle. Non-stop CSX and NS action, with loaned/leased UP, BNSF, CP, and other motive power on a regular basis. Whenever my grandson visits from out-of-state, we always reserve a day for Fostoria.
Anyplace there’s steam running!
I’ve seen a lot of places. Being in Southern California I have Cajon Pass,where you get a train every five to ten minutes; Tehachapi Loop, by far the best for something that isn’t normal; and finally by far my favorite place to see some trains is sitting on my surfboard waiting for a wave at 15th street in Delmar, watching Amtrak, BNSF and the San Diego Coaster run the coastline.
Better get your time machince out. I saw a layout that had a train go through a time machine and land in dino land. Each module was different. Indians fighting USA people, etc. It was funny.
I like to watch at the oredock in town Marquette, MI. Also Eagle Mills crossing heading towards Marquette. which is in Negaunne, MI.
I second the Tehachapi Loop overview. It is accessible from a road over the hill to Bakersfield and offers a fabulous view. Equally exciting was on the street above the motor stoage area just west of the New Haven Station. Steam and electric changes, drag freights coming through from New York and Maybrook and lots of excitement. Long gone days.
here we go again more worthless topics!