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Docket Number: AB_55_665_X Case Title: CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC. -ABANDONMENT EXEMPTION- IN HARLAN AND LETCHER COUNTIES, KY Decision Type: Environmental...
Paul S. Highland
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May 2, 2006
5:37 am
1741
Docket Number: AB_6_437_x Case Title: BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY -ABANDONMENT EXEMPTION- IN POLK COUNTY, IA Deciding Body: Director Of Proceedings Decision Notes:...
Paul S. Highland
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May 2, 2006
5:40 am
1742
Now available is 17-page Rail Negative List #87 with original black & white negatives shot of rail operations N-R. These have been shot from the 1970's until...
Norm Metcalf
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May 2, 2006
1:34 pm
1743
I got an email through my website at www.craigsrailroadpages.com from Mike McHiggins, who is looking for photographs of the following lines in southern...
tarfh
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May 2, 2006
5:36 pm
1744
Hey members, for those of you that are interested, here is some positive information about railroads. In the little town of Folkston, Georgia, near the...
Richard Nichols
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May 4, 2006
1:25 am
1745
Hey members, for those of you that are interested, here is some positive information about railroads. In the little town of Folkston, Georgia, near the...
Richard Nichols
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May 4, 2006
1:25 am
1746
Full Text of Decision 36983 SERVICE DATE – LATE RELEASE MAY 3, 2006 DO SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD DECISION STB Docket No. AB-1081X SAN PEDRO RAILROAD...
Paul S. Highland
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May 4, 2006
5:32 am
1747
Glad ot hear that Georgia is not ahsambed of its trains. Here in south wyoming at Green River the city has put up blinds along a bridge the spans the yard at ...
Robbie j.
challenger82901
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May 5, 2006
8:21 pm
1748
... following lines in southern California: Escondido (active), Perris (San Jacinto - active) Southern Pacific's Folsom branch. [This is partly abandoned,...
Mike Palmer
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May 6, 2006
7:48 am
1749
Robbie in Wyoming, Did they specifically state that the blinds were put up to block the view of the rail yard or were they put up as a wind deflector because...
Sharon Deckard
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May 6, 2006
11:41 am
1750
It seems that we get decisions on proceedings for upcoming railroad abandonments, and of course that is good. We get news about museums and other items of...
Richard Nichols
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May 6, 2006
1:38 pm
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In a message dated 5/6/06 9:39:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, preacher1112@... writes: I have a daughter who lives in Tampa, and my wife and I travel to...
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gregharrod
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May 6, 2006
3:34 pm
1752
Greg I appreciate your reply. I think that when Flagler was no longer in the railroad and travel business, and his railroad continued only freight business,...
Richard Nichols
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May 6, 2006
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In a message dated 5/6/06 2:04:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, preacher1112@... writes: When ACL and Seaboard Airline merged there ended up too much...
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gregharrod
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May 6, 2006
6:49 pm
1754
Dear Folx, Sorry been away from here, just here to comment on the rails that disappeared... From my understanding, the late 50's (1958) was the big turn around...
lawnmowermantx
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May 7, 2006
1:43 am
1755
Link added to the links section. http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/highway.htm The time had come for railroads to give way to mass highway systems and...
lawnmowermantx
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May 7, 2006
2:04 am
1756
Yet today's freight railroads carry 40 percent of all freight tonnage in the U.S. and that continues to go up with the current 'Big' railroad companies having...
Ken
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May 7, 2006
2:57 am
1757
Good Morning, While all this may be true. Here in Georgia they are starting to rebuild old lines and spurs that have not been used in many years. Freight...
TDJ
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May 7, 2006
12:10 pm
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Tim, I may have addressed my comments to you before. I live in South Georgia and I can speak with personal knowledge about some railroads being reopened. The...
Richard Nichols
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May 7, 2006
12:54 pm
1759
Do Railroads get a tax advantage? They must buy their own right of ways, pay the area's Commercial Property Tax on "all" property (right of ways included)...
Don Kirk
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May 7, 2006
6:58 pm
1760
RE: The Waning Years of Rail... =============================== Railroad freight is not on the wane...it is growing. Special schools are being set up to train...
Mano Deimorte
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May 8, 2006
7:11 am
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In a message dated 5/8/06 2:11:39 AM Central Daylight Time, ... The second major railroad abandonment was the Fort Smith and Western in 1939. Wes Leatherock ...
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May 8, 2006
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1762
The Colorado Midland was shut down by the Federal Railraod Administration in 1918, due to a huge backlog of unmoved WW 1 war materials on the line. It never...
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May 8, 2006
2:58 pm
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As a former resident of South Georgia, I'm glad to hear that work is going on the line to Willacoochee. You mentioned that work on going on the HOG (SAM ...
Ashley James
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May 8, 2006
4:26 pm
1764
Hey Sharon and all, I heard that the blinds were put up to reduce the "blight" of the rail yard. This bridge dosen`t get much ice as the city has a fairly good...
Robbie j.
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May 8, 2006
7:08 pm
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Dear Group, Thank you once again for the insight! If Georgia is handling up (getting'r'done) on its "Railroad Revival" (Let's get the Railroad Preachers, and...
lawnmowermantx
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May 9, 2006
4:01 pm
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If you do a search for CSX,there is a link to employment with them.There are several colleges along the eastern part of the U.S. where you can attend classes...
Mitchell Green
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May 9, 2006
7:14 pm
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Just a passing note about Railroad employment, like a lot of industries if you don't know someone in the Railroad business, get to know somebody, or find a...
TDJ
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May 9, 2006
10:19 pm
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Docket Number: AB_33_213_X Case Title: UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY -ABANDONMENT EXEMPTION- IN DALLAS COUNTY, IA Deciding Body: Director Of Proceedings ...
Paul S. Highland
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May 10, 2006
5:06 am
1769
Full Text of Decision 36982 SERVICE DATE – MAY 9, 2006 DO SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD DECISION STB Docket No. AB-303 (Sub-No. 25X) WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD....
Paul S. Highland
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May 10, 2006
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