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8 jimpsummers Offline Send Email Jul 8, 2001
4:01 am
Welcome to all the new members! I hope to start putting photos up here and spending more time on my home page. Feel free to post photos and information of your...
9 jimpsummers Offline Send Email Jul 21, 2001
2:38 pm
I added a page on Texas on my home page... check it out!...
10 as_cool_as_ice2000
as_cool_as_i... Offline Send Email
Sep 10, 2001
1:23 am
I am looking for information regarding branched lines used to transport farm products. Lines that are currently active in IL and may be abondened. <br>I am...
11 jimpsummers Offline Send Email Oct 1, 2001
1:56 am
I would suggest looking at the SPV atlas for IL (link is on my home page) for the rail lines, existing and abandoned, in that state. As for use in transporting...
12 titanicfan7 Offline Send Email Oct 9, 2001
1:38 pm
if you like this perhaps you will like mine also, :)<br><a href=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/abandonedhouses...
13 emmaybee887 Offline Send Email Oct 27, 2001
1:50 pm
I've been exploring and looking up info on the rail line which once ran through Wagener and Sievern, SC, in eastern Aiken Co. It was abandoned some 70 years...
14 emmaybee887 Offline Send Email Nov 30, 2001
3:28 am
Just posted one of my pix from an "expedition" last yr. This is very classic grade-level roadbed, bed between two berms, very obvious, looks like others I've ...
15 emmaybee887 Offline Send Email Nov 30, 2001
4:07 am
I got a copy of Microsoft's Train Simulator when it came out. Only played with it a bit, but it has tools for creating new simulations of track and rolling ...
16 jimpsummers Offline Send Email Dec 10, 2001
2:38 am
Great pic and very interesting information on this line. Does it look like the former ROW way was used for farm roads or something else and this is the reason...
17 emmaybee887 Offline Send Email Dec 10, 2001
10:35 pm
"Does it look like the former ROW way was used for farm roads or something else and this is the reason they are in such good shape after 70 years?"<br><br>No,...
18 jimpsummers Offline Send Email Dec 11, 2001
4:03 am
As I wait for Homestead to transfer and activate the Abandoned Railroads home page......
19 emmaybee887 Offline Send Email Dec 11, 2001
4:50 pm
Having "processed" some of my collection, I've posted some new S&K pix, incl some passed to me by correspondents.<br><br>I also started a new album for pix...
20 cynthiana3 Offline Send Email Dec 23, 2001
5:31 pm
Do any of you know where I can go to find out about abandoned railroad stations for sale?...
21 jimpsummers Offline Send Email Dec 25, 2001
9:50 pm
I just got MSTS for Christmas... I am very interested in seeing how difficult/easy it is to recreate abandoned lines. Have you created any simulated lines...
22 jimpsummers Offline Send Email Dec 25, 2001
9:56 pm
I don't know of any particular site where this information is located. I guess this site would be as good as any for this type of information to be posted and ...
23 jimpsummers Offline Send Email Dec 25, 2001
10:31 pm
Added more pics to the default folder today. Still waiting on Homestead Personal to activate web site......
24 cynthiana3 Offline Send Email Dec 25, 2001
11:15 pm
Thanks for the input! I have been doing a little bit of research - apparently the Dept. of Transportation has some information according to the research ...
25 jimpsummers Offline Send Email Dec 26, 2001
1:04 am
Cynthiana3 -<br> Yes please, post whatever you find out... I think that would be a nice addition to the abandoned railroad theme.<br><br>Thanks!...
26 trainlady58 Offline Send Email Dec 27, 2001
2:51 pm
From Dec. 8, 2001 thru July 28, 2002 there will be an exhibition at the art institute of Chicago of: Moden Trains and Splendid Stations: Architecture and ...
27 emmaybee887 Offline Send Email Dec 29, 2001
8:40 pm
Now that the leaves are fallen, I went back to the Lexington County sections of the line to get pix of the ROW and old bridge timbers that were hidden by...
28 emmaybee887 Offline Send Email Dec 30, 2001
1:18 am
".. I am very interested in seeing how difficult/easy it is to recreate abandoned lines. Have you created any simulated lines yet? "<br><br>So far, no. For ...
29 bcb_contra Offline Send Email Jan 4, 2002
2:27 pm
Hi all, I've talked to Jimmy Summers about this once before and he didn't have much information at the time. But, I'm hoping someone else might.<br><br>I'm ...
30 bcb_contra Offline Send Email Jan 4, 2002
2:37 pm
This is a probably a long shot, but does anyone happen to have a map of the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity, & Sabine Railroad? The line ran from Trinity, Texas ...
31 trainlady58 Offline Send Email Jan 5, 2002
5:03 am
We are putting together a trip to Chicago on the weekend of April 20th & 21st to go to the Art Institute of Chicago to see the train depot exhibit. We plan on...
32 b_thom.rm Offline Send Email Jan 5, 2002
9:05 pm
does anyone happen to have a map of the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity, & Sabine Railroad? <br><br>Not a map, but a search at Google for "Waco, Beaumont, Trinity, &...
33 jimpsummers Offline Send Email Jan 12, 2002
9:54 pm
is back up. The URL is:<br><a href=http://abandonedrailroads.homestead.com target=new>http://abandonedrailroads.homestead.com</a><br><br>Jimmy Summers...
34 sectionmaster Offline Send Email Jan 17, 2002
11:43 am
Jason, I lived at MCAS as a kid in the early 60's and know the bridge well (fished around it many times). Unfortunately, don't think I got any pictures of it....
35 sectionmaster Offline Send Email Jan 17, 2002
11:50 am
Try the Real Estate Dept of CSX and NS. I talked to CSX (Jacksonville, Fla) about 8 years ago and they provided me an 8 page list of stations for sale at the...
36 sectionmaster Offline Send Email Jan 17, 2002
11:56 am
Looking for anything related to the NCR from Baltimore - Harrisburg - Elmira, NY - Sodus Pt, NY (Lake Ontario). Have the book about NCR but looking for more ...
37 cynthiana3 Offline Send Email Jan 17, 2002
3:45 pm
Thank you so much for the information! I'll look into it right away!...
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