Firelock- Coffee and a smoke sitting in your car at the station…can’t tell you how many times I’ve done that…told ya, we would be buddies. There is quite a difference between American and Canadian tobacco, …I could just hear us…“hey give me one of your’s…ok but Ill take one of your’s”. Of course we will get lectured by someone now.
Vince, concerning smoking we had a saying in the Marines…
“I’m gonna die someday, I might as well have a say in it!”
And man, you should have heard the screams when they started leaving the cigarettes out of the C-rations!
Wayne
A 2016 view of the area with the station pictured below shows that the station has been demolished and the street has had a underpass constructed so it passes under the railroad.
Growing up I lived in Garrett, IN for several years with my father being Superintendent of the B&O at the time
We got our first snow of the season in NJ yesterday (12/10) My local station, Oradell, NJ (former NJ&NY / Erie RR) looked like a Christmas card. The station will be spending another winter protecting her waiting passengers from the weather.
That is just stunning! That should be your Christmas card for next year.
Very evocative too, I can almost hear the whistle of an approaching Erie K-1 in the distance.
Here is your K-1 Wayne. Merry Christmas!
Why thank you! And the same to you!
Ashland, VA, wow. I lived there half of 1980, and I don’t recall ever going to that station. Too busy working a million hours up at King’s Dominion.
Thank you for your service!
Johhny, I seem to have drifted and have neglected to look back to see your post. Sorry. Yes, it is sad. So many mis-truths from people who should know better that got government funding at all levels to get this line rebuilt for safety purposes, but apparently the Feds stalled. I wonder why. In any event, as often happens, the idea just won’t fly at it’s current funding structure. People would rather take a bus with fewer stops, or drive.
-Crandell
The old Silver Spring, MD B&O station. On Georgia Ave., just outside the Washington DC border, on the Westbound line to Cumberland. Used to train watch there growing up. The station has been restored inside with original furniture and fixtures. No longer used for trains, Amtrak has moved a mile up the line, to the combined MARC and Metro station. On the far side were a couple short sidings, team tracks maybe, usually a boxcar or two one could climb on.
A full station with ticket counter, there was a companion eastbound station, similar construction but smaller, just a waiting room. The little fence by the baggage cart is the pedestrial tunnel under the tracks to that smaller station. Tunnel is still there but closed.
Before my time, back when Presidents rode the rails, Silver Spring station was sometimes used by presidents and politicians as a lower profile spot to board trains, rather than down at Union Station in DC.
Picture did not post Enzoamps…would like to see this one!
I am sorry, the picture appears in my post box here. But here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spring_Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad_Station
Source of my photo:
https://www.montgomerypreservation.org/the-historic-silver-spring-bo-railroad-station-2/
Station Yuba City. This is the Southern Pacific station
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Re: Davenport
If I recall the MILW had a line than ran along the riverfront. On the Illinois side, the CB&Q, did likewise. The Quad Cities were great railfanning in the early 1960’s. I came through in the early 90’s, and just about everything was either gone or in great disrepair.
I always liked the way the Rock’s passenger trains would come right off the bridge into the Davenport station.
Picture looked fine to me.
Hmmmm…interesting, all I get is the little white outlined box
It may be rather nondescript but this was my hometown station:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2409141
CSSHEHEWISCH- Maybe non descriptive but it’s obvious it was a great place to watch trains, in Chicago to boot.
I grew up about a mile or so from that station. While I was in high school and after Dad gave me his Argus C-3 (we got him a new camera for Christmas), I would walk over to Burnham crossing (about a block from the station) and spend an afternoon taking pictures.