The Kenosha Streetcar Society's Friday, November 12th program will feature the strange, fascinating saga of the world's first high-speed railroad, the ...
Don't know if this has been mentioned before, but there is a very interesting website covering abandoned railroads in the Pacific Northwest maintained by Brian...
Hello All, What track that did get laid was between La Porte, IN and Westville Indiana. About 10 miles. There is some road bed left and at one spot there is a...
... exactly ... The historical marker is on Indiana highway 39 about 2 mile south of Indiana highway 2. It is near the La Porte airport. To the east of this...
... occupy is all vacant land? It is a rural area. In some places the roadbed can be seen. In other places it is farm land that has been plowed for years and...
Here it is on Topozone USGS maps: http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=16&n=4601696.00012371&e=521738&datum=nad83 Following the traces of the ROW it looks like it...
... Actually it ran much farther west than that, almost 18 miles in all from downtown La Porte to Goodrum Junction, IN, between Chesterton and Valparaiso where...
... <milkbottledude@y...> wrote: [snip] There was an article about this RR in "Railroad" magazine back in the 1940s. I cannot easily find that issue right now....
That still doesn't answer my question, but that's alright-- I have been receiving emails reguarding my company 'NRRAR Corp.' NRRAR Corp. stands for "National...
Tom- Thankyou, finally someone answered my question. I have been wanting to know if it was a rural area, or if it had been built over with houses, businesses,...
If you don't mind downloading a large PDF file go to this link (draft bicycle path plan) and look at page 1-11. It shows existing and abandoned RR's in 3...
I have uploaded to the Files section an aerial photograph of a portion of the Air Line ROW. LaPorte Airport is on the right. The ROW runs left and right...
I am curious about what appears to have been a former Illinois Central / Metra ROW that came off the South Chicago branch at about 82nd St. and then went ...
In the plants themselves, USS had their own railroad, so I imagine they also served this plant too. I know Norfolk and Western use to service alot of USS...
Check out: http://www.terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=11&x=1304&y=11504&z=16&w=2 for a scrollable aerial photo, this being a 1998 USGS aerial photo....
Here in Milwaukee County, Canadian Pacific Railway (officially Soo Line d/b/a CP) is abandoning a stretch of railroad that was part of Wisconsin's first rail...
Hello All, I posted a picture of the historical marker on Indiana hwy 39 at the old roadbed of the Chicago-NY Electric Air Line RR. About a 1/4 mile west of...
That frustrates me. Everywhere you turn, there are houses in the way I was thinking of turning the line. Grrrrrrrr. I don't want to spend money to bulldoze a...
Mark- I am very interested. I have already sent an email to Laura Baenen at CPRail inquiring about a price. Thankyou for informing us. We at NRRAR appreciate...
Good! I was hoping so. Milwaukee officials have been talking about some sort of rail transit for about as long as I can remember (~25 years), and this...
Hello All, Here's a shot of where the Chicago-NY Electric Air Line RR crossed over the Pere Marquette. That's me looking up and waving to the satellite. Tom ...
Tom- I see Two problems from what I've seen, first of all, what Hwy is this that runs literally on top of the line!??! And second, there is one house in the...
I know this is off topic, but it really torques me down, so... Woman struck by train sues Norfolk Southern PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Jeannette, Pa., woman who was...
God....SOME people are so stupid. That's so stupid it's absolutely funny. LMAO Thomas Klingbiel NRRAR Corp. tarfh <tarfh@...> wrote: I know this is off...
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