Dear Fellow Railfans, I'm so glad to be a part of this group to report some abandoned roadbeds in Central Texas! In case you haven't heard that Texas has a lot...
Michael, that was a very informative piece about the abandonments. You may want to go to the Corps of Engineers website; also terraserver, I believe - the...
Well Don, My apparent lack of a "love" life gives me time to look around. Now if I can get some gas money, and proper connections of some old R.O.W. I'd be in...
... recognizable, but if u can eyeball where it's cut u get an idea.) ... that still has a drain pipe and some track NEXT TO IT, with a DERAIL on the side. I...
We are restoring a PRR 1942 N5C caboose. Dows anybody know the exact name of the original color? We want it to look authentic. Someone told me it was Focal...
Michael - you may want to try these sites for maps and imagery: www.terraserver.microsoft.com www.maps.google.com There are other sites. I used to go to USGS...
Try these also that a buddy sent me: If you go to the Google site you'll find Google Earth (I think that's the name . . .), which has drawn lots of oohs and...
I have been downloading the terrain DEMs from the USGS site, and in visiting both teraserver and Google, I could not find the free download area. Seemed like...
No, Virtual Earth did NOT replace Terraserver. Terraserver has some better features and is easier (for me anyway) to navigate. For one thing, it tells you...
Maybe someone knows the answer to these questions... When were the following lines abandoned....? SLSF West of Poteau, Oklahoma SLSF from Jenson,Oklahoma to...
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Poteau to Antlers, Oklahoma. 1980. It was abandoned just before the BN took over. Can't help you on the others. ... ...
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No real surprise here...much of the remaining former Southern Pacific/El Paso & Southwestern, more recently opearted as the San Pedro & Southwestern, has filed...
That would be "The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad" better known as the "Nickel Plate" ... From: Brian <norfolksouthernfan85@...> Sent: Sep 16,...
Hi Brian. These railroads may have been modeled, and a lot of history and data collected by a group that has a Train sim site: The East Metro Line, and...
Visited the San Diego area again with my wife over the past weekend. In Coronado, rode a "deuce coupe" (side-by-side pedal bike) for a short distance along...
Nickleplate, I beleive ... From: Brian To: abandonedrailroadsoftheus@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [Abandoned...
I read in the paper here recently that the Klamath Falls (Oregon) to Alturas (California) segment (all that remains) of the former SP Modoc line has apparently...
On one of my road trips, I drove over a street where I saw a crossing that "used" to have three tracks. One track remain intact, while the other two have been...
Michael - interesting questions and concerns. I'll try to answer as best to my knowledge and abilities from witnessing the removal of railroads from my home...
Dear Don, Y'know, I don't know of any "three sentence" reply. :) I should become a book writer! :) This is a website about some historic rails of the Southern...
Michael - My basis for information is due the fact I grew up in an upper middle class railroad family. My grandfather was, at the time of his retirement,...
I apologize for the recent spam. The offending party has been kicked out of the group. I don't know how he got in in the first place. Again - sorry for any...