I think I am going to do a couple abandoned rail lines on my outdoor setup. I re-building it because of the hurricane deciding to throw the neighbor's solar...
Hi all, Just wanted to introduce myself to everyone. My name is Alix Kunkle, and I live in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Where I live is right below where the old...
Front page, no less: Suddenly, a suspicious hobby Train enthusiasts say simply taking photos puts them on the wrong side of the tracks with overzealous...
I can't bring myself to get angry about this incident for one very important reason. As a rail fan myself, and the way the world has been changing around me ...
This event was posted on another list and a letter of apoligy has been sent to the railfans in question when I remember what list it was I will cross post it...
yeah but if terrorists really wanted to get pictures of trains, don't you think they'd be smart enough to NOT do it out in the open in plain view? plus with...
Well said Mike! Ken ... From: Michael Boyd To: abandonedrailroadsoftheus@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [Abandoned...
And as far as terrorists disrupting rail traffic? Hell, there's better than a dozen ways out of the Chicago metroplex... sure it'd take some doing to reroute...
People have told me, "Opinions are like aholes, everybody has one and visa versa." Excuse me for exercising my 1st admendment rights. The idiots should have...
On Friday Jan. 21 I took the long way home to L.A. from San Diego (via El Centro and the Salton Sea). California's Imperial Valley is mostly level, and much...
Thanks for the report from a rather out of the way part of California. Yes, the SD&AE, now operated by the Carrizo Gorge Railroad, does plan to offer service...
Kathy you missed one important part of the story. They were on a platform, they were not tresspassing. I do not have to notify Metra every morning when I am...
Newbie here, reading the posts.... Maybe we or they don't have all the facts on this. Think about it. How would someone get a broken finger from a 200 ton...
... I saw such a shot in a movie once and the locomotive was seen to go right into the camera at speed. I wondered how that was done, and then I figured it...
actually you should use two mirrors, just like a periscope.... so nothing is inverted... like the number boards or the control stand and door being on the...
the other (and easier) way to get that accomplished is to stand on the outside of a curve and zoom in on a tangent section of track. you get the headon angle...
Hello, Group. I found about this from the CNW list, and being of a CGW family, which has most of its property abandoned and removed by now, figured I may fit...
... a ... by ... Hi Don - I have always been partial to the CGW so I am looking forward to what you may find in the "wilds" of Missouri. Most of CGW is gone...
Jeff - yes, the CGW did come into KC via the MoPac at Leavenworth. Kirmeyer is on the Missouri side, about two miles east of Leavenworth, and I believe there...
I hope you have all been following the struggle we are having in trying to preserve the North Pemberton Railroad Station property. You can help by going to...
Hi Lee: What a delight to read your letter to the list! I remember that station fondly, and often thought of buying it myself (when I could afford it!) My...
Thank you so much for your interest. We dearly love our station. The Pemberton Hightstown, Pennsylvania RR, Union Transportation Co. and many others have...
North Pemberton Railroad Station Guess what? The newspaper took the survey off of their website! Nobody can vote now. Our president called up the editor and...
Lee- What is this about ... some station? I'm sorry, please fill me in!?! Thanks, Thomas Klingbiel ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's...
Thank you so much for your interest. We dearly love our station. The Pemberton Hightstown, Pennsylvania RR, Union Transportation Co. and many others have...
Lee Taylor- You mentioned how "you had the money to start building," Did your organization go through the proper channels, and buy the property before the...
Here is a question that came to me from Mike Martin: Do you know of a book that would contain information about the history of a specific railroad that existed...
Here is what I found so far: This is what the The Historical Guide to North American Railroads says: " The KO&G was incorporated in 1918 as a successor to...
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