FYI those of you who subscribe or buy Trains and CTC Board magazines can find monthly news on abandonments from the Surface Transportation Board. Trains has a...
Hi all, I took Independence Day off and scouted the entire Modoc line between Klamath Falls OR and Wendel CA (except for several miles around Snowstorm...
Craig, Those pictures are interesting; keep us posted as the rail removal continues (though that will make it a long drive when that gets done). That's wide...
Craig: Very interesting photo's!!! I realy don't know much about Western Railroading, is there a reason they are not ripping all the track up?? Perhaps for...
The livestock pen was in excellent shape, it is at a private crossing on farm land and there is, as I recall, also a chute for truck transport on the south...
Thanks, Jeremy; Eventually all the track will be removed from Bayley to Wendel. I think it's about 89 - 95 miles or so. They started ripping it up earlier...
Most of the remaining sections of the former PE branch from Watts to Santa Ana has now been abandoned. The north end (Watts-Paramount) and south end...
I am forwarding this message which appeared on the 4L list as it may be of interest to members of this list. Joe Bartolini West Columbia, SC ... From: Phil...
Joe: The locomotives were hauled in behind steam traction engines running on crawler treads. A few years ago the engines were in deplorable condition...the...
Has anyone seen the photo taken in 1955 of a short part of the Camden and Amboy Railway? I just got a railroad book and it has a photo in it of such. It...
Luis and Julie: There are two locomotives at the sight (Eagle Lake & West Branch), #1 is a 4-6-0 built by Alco in 1897, #2 is the 2-8-0 (ex-LS&MS) Built by...
A person could have a lot better locomotive with a lot less trouble too remove than the Maine locos. There are three steamers and two diesels (Lost Engines of...
I just read on Railnews.com that the Kinzua Viaduct near Mt Jewett, Pennsylvania collapsed earlier this week during a windstorm. This was a former Erie line...
An article in the Los Angeles Times a couple of months ago told the sad tale of the Northwestern Pacific. The line was significantly damaged by storms several...
It's interesting to note that in Eureka, California, there are several boxcars, lumber rack cars, flatcars and a few locomotives and some MOW equipment sitting...
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I've just spent the day exploring the Oregon California & Eastern Railway's right of way, now called the OC&E Woods Line State Trail. I've posted photos to the...
From a news article in railnews.net, the former Conrail line between Woodbine and Tuckahoe, New Jersey is being rebuilt in preparation for future freight...
Heads up to the lists that the book on the Watauga & Yadkin River Railroad will be shipping this week. Over the course of the last year, it was pulled it from...
According to recent item in the LA Times, the former Northwestern Pacific bridge in Larkspur, Calif. will be torn down soon. Larkspur is in Marin County north...
Along US 95 heading east out of Las Vegas just before you get to Hoover Dam there is a hotel that had two old steam engines one looked like possibly a shay and...
... looked ... during ... in ... Response: When I was there in June 2003, there were no engines on display at the hotel. They likely came from the Nevada RR...
... SPSPV> atlas. The ... I'm sorry I wawasn clear on my hotels. The engines on display were at a hotel almost at the dam east of Boulder City. Coming from...
... The shay that is on display is narrow gauge, it came from the town of Pioche, Nevada, where it ran on the Pioche Pacific Railway hauling ore trains. It is...
From Trainoders: A stretch of rail between Bluestone, West Virginia and Pocahontas, Virginia, which has remained unused for about the past 10 years, formally...
