no trains in my town

[thebomb]

today i feel i don't want to do any thing because there was no trains coming or going to pulp mill because it was closed down for good and the only trains
that go to the north is going to the grain elevator and the yard is full of tankers
and the only power is 3 GP10s
brety quiet eh

 

[cascaderailroad]

Alot has changed: Phila Greenwich Terminal was once over 36 tracks across, and employed 30,000 workers. Trains would come in, and 4 oilers (men) would open the journal boxes, oil the bearings, and re-pack the cotton wicking...all while the train was moving at 2 mph. The kickback rotary coal pier was once so busy, that workers rushed and tried to process so many coal hoppers per shift, so quickly, that the kickback sometimes had a coal car derail and go into the Delaware river. Today it is a fraction of it's size, intermodal, trash train storage, with only a handful of real merchandise freight cars.

Enola (Harrisburg) once had 2 or more major hump classification yards, as did Conway (Pittsburgh).

Pitcairn Yard was huge, and broke up and made drafts of railcars for east and westbound trains, now it is intermodal only.
http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc339/cascaderailroad/PitcairnYard_1km_Grid.jpg
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Altoona once had over 17 different yards, stretching for 5 miles, and had over 300 trains per day, a majority of them wartime passenger. Now Altoona is a run through ghost town that has over 60+ run through trains, 2 car inspectors, and 2 passengers per day.

But if you need ideas on creating a route ... I have losts of old time (Ol'Timer) information and links. I have become quite fond of NG & canals, and its history (1790-1900)

 

[SPNGTyler]

While alot of places around the nation are becoming ghost railroad towns, others are growing. Not my town, but a town 5 miles north, Roanoke TX, is buisier than ever. Since the 80s, the place has seen alot of warehouses open up, and with a very busy concrete mixer, the place is seeing some good buisness. Even has its own switch engine! Even though they are Gensets.

But it is the only realy good thing. Many, many places in Texas that were once busy are now mere ghosts. Dublim, the start of Dr.Pepper. A once thriving Sante Fe & MKT junction, not litteraly filled with rusting yard tracks. The old MKT brick station is still there, with original platform, and semaphore. It is just like the railroad just kinda left, old cars sitting around, the only engines there were two Fort Worth & Western GPs.

Another is Denison. Another once thriving MKT town. I know it once also had the end of a KOG (Kansas Oklahoma, & Gulf), and the T&P/MP. It too is now a ghost, but it at least still has a main line through it. It once had a MASSIVE yard, that was so big the town built the road with a bridge over the entire thing! Now just a big field with two tracks on either side of the bridge. At least it has a meusum, in its original LARGE brickstation.

There are many many others that have been abandoned, and for some reason they seem to be along the ex Katy tracks. Dang UP...:'(

 

[Ronayne]

today i feel i don't want to do any thing because there was no trains coming or going to pulp mill because it was closed down for good and the only trains
that go to the north is going to the grain elevator and the yard is full of tankers
and the only power is 3 GP10s
brety quiet eh

Lucky you. There is no railroad here. I have to go to Kew or Wauchope to see trains, where maybe one or two come per day...