What railroads are in you hometown

[specter02147]

Used to be alot of minor railroad companies in my area, mostly based out of or around Camden.

Now NJ transit runs lightrail passenger trains over the tracks during the day, and CSX runs mainline freight at night and on some branchlines.

 

[gg14835]

I live in the Raleigh area in N.C. so CSX, Norfolk Southern (both new and old), Seaboard System, Durham & Southern, Southern, and Atlantic Coast Line.

 

[TheRichMan]

I live in suburbs of Illinois, and I have CP, NS, CN, and Metra. Maybe even a UP once in a while.
But right by my house is a train yard for Indiana Harbor Belt. I would watch trains, but it's not necessarily the "best" area to hang out in

 

[steve_juliano]

Hometown Bellevue, Ohio

Railroads Norfolk Southern and Wheeling and Lake Erie
But I do see a lot of foreign power from UP, CSX, CN and occasionally BNSF

 

[Blutorse4792]

My hometown itself contains four rail lines...

1. Union Pacific Kenosha Subdivision (Ex-C&NW, also serves as Metra's "Union Pacific North Line")
2. Union Pacific Milwaukee Subdivision (Ex-C&NW)
3. Union Pacific Lake Subdivision (The shortest line in the system, it links the previous two subs together)
4. EJ&E Western Sub (In reality part of the Canadian National, but still the EJ&E on paper)

Formerly, the Shore Line and Skokie Valley routes of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee electric railroad ran parallel to the C&NW's Kenosha Sub, but I never saw them (The former was abandoned in 1955, and the latter in 1963 along with the rest of the railroad).

Within a few miles are...

1. Canadian Pacific C&M Subdivision (Ex-MILW)
2. Canadian Pacific Janesville Subdivision (Ex-MILW, branches off of the former in the town of Rondout, IL)
3. Canadian National Waukesha Subdivision (Ex-WC Chicago subdivision)

 

[opus722]

Now it's purely Norfolk Southern's Clinch Valley Extension intersecting with CSX on the fringes, but back in the day you had Norfolk & Western, Southern, Louisville & Nashville, Clinchfield, and the Chesapeake & Ohio just over the mountain.

 

[frontman]

I live in eastern Iowa too. The roads that run in my area are: UP, CN, Iowa Interstate and Crandic.

 

[frogpipe]

My hometown? That would be Baltimore, so Pennsylvania (later Penn Central), Baltimore & Ohio, Northern Centeral, Western Maryland, Maryland & Pennsylvania, later days Amtrak, Conrail, and now a days CSX and NS.

 

[mikebwolf123]

Pretty much just CSX coal trains. It's more or less boring where I live.

 

[cvw]

Hometown 1: Norfolk Southern, and CSX (South Carolina 1999-2008), Hometown 2: CSX and FEC (Florida 1998-1999), Hometown 3: Norfolk Southern, CSX, Georgia Central, Savannah Ports Authority(Genesee and Wyoming) (Georgia 2008-Present Day).


Life is short sometimes.......

 

[betancp]

UP has the game here in Sacramento, but there's some BNSF activity along the former SP trackage, and a lot on the old WP trackage. Used to be a lot nicer here before Anschutz shut down the Sac Loco Works and moved the maintenance activity to the Burnham shops.

 

[DominikB]

Well we have Virgin trainz, London Midland, Cross country, east midland and arriva wales i think thats all...lines well the big one is theWCML and the one to the soth east...Home town Birmingham, oh and Chiltern as well out of snow hill and moor street

 

[betancp]

Virgin, as in Sir Richard Branson?

 

[nacattack]

I live Near San Francisco and I always go over to Oakland jack london and do my Rail Fanning there I see lots of Amcal and the starlight Union Pacific and some Dash-8's Amtrak All Day!!

 

[LongHoodForwardprods]

Hometown: Bonfield Illinois.

The closest railroad to me would be NS Kankakee line. However up until 1933 The Kankakee & Seneca Railroad used to go through the end of my field.

 

[trainsmaster2142]

here in the humble houston texas area we have alot of union pacific and bnsf here and some csx leads. and a hump yard called Englewood Yard and the port of houston

 

[jordon412]

i live in atlanta . . .

If you take I-75 (Interstate 75) north to Chattanooga, I'm two hours away. In Rocky Face, CSX is the only railroad that goes thru town.
However, a few minutes away is downtown Dalton, where CSX and Norfolk Southern cross each other on their ways south to Atlanta. I often see BNSF coal trains coming thru on NS tracks, pulled by everything from SD70MACs to ES44ACs. Union Pacific container trains also come thru on NS tracks. The RoadRailer also passes thru here. The old Southern freight depot is now the city's visitor's center and the old loading dock is now a place to watch trains pass thru. The interchange between NS and CSX sits across from 'The Platform', as I call it, and you can see CSX's local that works the interchange. It's based out of Chattanooga and comes down with a caboose on the south end, with a GP38-2 on the other end. After working the interchange and delivering and picking up cars on CSX tracks, the local is made and heads back to Chattanooga, with the locomotive leading.
Of course a half-hour north on '75 (as I-75 is locally called), is Chattanooga, where the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (My Little Slice Of Heaven) is, along with the north end of the shortline Chattanooga and Chickamauga (owned by Genesse and Wyoming) (the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum runs excursions along their tracks), along with Norfolk Southern and CSX.
P.S. Atlanta needs commuter trains. The continous increase in drivers on the road seems to result in this apparent 'endless cycle' of widening the roads everytime the number of cars gets too much for the roads to handle with the number of lanes presently.

 

[qassaquyangli]

Couldn't find my old post.
Alaska Railroad all the way.

 

[PC_Ace]

I live in Wellington, New Zealand, where we have seen a renaissance of railways on a national basis in recent years.
After decades of criminal neglect and asset-stripping by private owners of the former NZGR (New Zealand Government Railways) the entire network was repurchased by the government of the day and put back into public ownership.
The new name is KiwiRail.
Subsequently, considerable investments have been made in new locomotives and rolling stock and, most importantly, the neglected track and associated infrastructure is being brought back up to modern operational standards and significant improvements in safety and efficiency made. New alignments, deviations, electrification, double tracking and tunnel broadening to allow taller traffic to pass has resulted in faster and more efficient services.
We have a fleet of superb new electric multiple units (the Matangi) in Wellington for suburban commuters and Auckland's urban transport system will soon be revolutionized by electrification at last.
Freight operations dominate on both main islands, but there are some incredibly scenic passenger journeys still to be made on our quaint 3 foot 6 inch gauge system.

Here's DXB 5108 heading 4 other locomotives and a heavy freight train on the North Island Main Trunk Line near Otaki, NZ.
PC

 

[PARAILFAN]

In Connellsville, PA we have the CSX Keystone Sub, the shortline SWP Railroad, and regional Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway. Not bad for a small town. And guess what used to come through here? B&O, WM, PRR, P&WV, and P&LE all in one town!