Bill Messecar (santafe-mail@...) is looking for images of the Santa Fe's former Los Angeles Division Second District. Bill will be conducting a clinic...
... I have some color shots of salvagers removing the second district in Pasadena in 1975. I have some depot shots also - Lamanda Park (old), Pasadena,...
According to the Daily Breeze, a local paper, Southwest Marine has closed after operating for 27 years on Terminal Island. There is an ongoing dispute with...
While flying home on mid-day Friday, it was cloudless over Kansas. Even from way up there some of the more recent abandoned routes can be seen. Some of the...
Hearing you talk about spotting abandoned lines from the air makes me want to book a flight. Whenever I fly (not as much as I used to), I never get to spot...
... Todd, Thanks. I fly regularly, but the flight route varies from time to time, and I often get clouds east of New Mexico/Colorado, so getting the Great...
I use TerraServer at http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/ to find abandoned right of way. Just click on the map and zoom where ever you want to look....
... <hudsaae@l...> wrote: Forwarded to "LosAngelesCountyRail@yahoogroups.com" for wider coverage. ... <ecberman@e...> wrote: When first married, my wife and I...
I've used TerraServer also; maybe once the planes are upgraded for in flight web surfing we'll be able to trace the routes as we zip over the country. In the...
Eric, Do you ever bring back memories. Spent from about 1949 to 1971 in Santa Ana area. Rode the PEs a lot and spent all the summers at the beach. I was back ...
Hello, I just thought I would introduce myself. My name is Mark Skipworth. I am working on a railpark off the abondoned Lehigh Vally right of way in Mendon,NY...
They've done it again, this time updated for interurbans. Still waiting for the missing three states in the upper midwest, though! (And the rest of Canada...)...
Current maps and corresponding satellite photos (you can toggle between these) are available for viewing at no cost on Google at http://maps.google.com/maps . ...
In Orange County one good place to start is the County Surveyor, officially known as theGeomatics / Land Information Systems in the Resources and Development...
... I use a stand alone program called TerraClient available for free at www.friedrich.st . You can super-impose maps over top of the satellite photos to...
Does anyone know if the railroad (Seminole Gulf) officially abandoned the last couple of miles of the bakers spur in Fort Myers, FL? How does the railroad...
... They usually can't if it truly is abandoned--although rarely if ever is any land truly abandoned. Someone holds title to it in most circumstances. If...
In Fostoria, Ohio, there are two old railway overpasses. They have railway names carved into the concrete. One says B&O, which I think we all know, but one i...
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I think it's kind of nice that these old ROWs are being used....... by Norfolk Southern. Mike Stevens Employee & Webmaster Champion Lawn Service, LLC ...
Most railroads are not truly abandoned, but "railbanked". This term is used to indicate that they may be used in the future for railroading again. Many of the...
... I don't mean to be argumentative, but I highly doubt that "most" abandoned railroad lines are railbanked. We have way too many fully abandoned, gone...
Sharon, Very true. A while back, a few towns wanted bridges taken down and right of ways sold off. The railroad(Con-rail at the time, Lehigh Valley before...
Trinity Rail Group, based out of Dallas, Texas, shut down it's railcar factory here in Findlay OH in 1999. Before Trinity Rail Group purchased it, it was...
The UPRR has permission to tear out a section of the Chicago Great Western in northern Iowa - From Swaledale to Thornton. This was part of the MC&FD District,...
Here's some recent photos of the Milwaukee Road Barge Slip in Port Townsend Washington. http://trackwalker.tripod.com/pictures1/ Peter Lewis Seattle WA ...
