What railroads are in you hometown

[schweitzerdude]

I live just outside Sandpoint, Idaho USA which is a multi-railroad town. Because of mountains and lakes, it was the best way to go for the original railroads (Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Spokane International).

Now it's Union Pacific, Montana Raillink, and Burlington Northern Santa Fe. My house is just across the road from BNSF so I see (and hear) all the BNSF mainline action from my front deck - approximately 35 freights per day, plus Amtrak (one each way per day) between Seattle and Chicago. Also, Sandpoint is the only remaining Amtrak stop in Idaho.

 

[farthegn]

Sadly...

The Carolina & Northwestern Ran through lenoir up until 1990.
Norfolk Southern Controlled it till 1994.
The Caldwell County Railroad Ran it untill 2006 when it was abandoned.

 

[CincySouthernRwy]

What do you mean by "hometown"?

Current hometown: Norfolk Southern, ex-Southern, ex-Cincinnati New Orleans & Texas Pacific, nee-Cincinnati Southern. One of my all-time favorites. Owned by the City of Cincinnati, the only such arrangement known to exist.

Hometown I am from: CSXT, ex-Chessie System, ex-Baltimore & Ohio, ex-Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton; Norfolk Southern, ex-N&W (on "C-Day"), ex-PRR, etc. Great Miami & Western may still operate on the west side of town.

Most people outside of southwestern Ohio consider Hamilton, Ohio to be part of Cincinnati. Today it's CSX, NS, I&O, CERA (if they are still around) and CIND (ditto). In the "Golden Age", Cincy had a major railroad for every one of its Rome-like seven hills that read like a "Who's Who" alphabet soup of eastern railroading: B&O, C&O, L&N, NYC, N&W, PRR, SR (CNO&TP, CS).

Plus...

• Erie Lackawanna and Detroit Toledo & Ironton arrived via trackage rights gained from the formation of PC and Conrail. The DT&I became Grand Trunk Western, then Canadian National, then Indiana & Ohio, though the leased Susquehanna SD70M's would make you think Walter Rich had gotten here somehow. (After he acquired TP&W I'm half-surprised he didn't go for I&O.)
  
• Cincinnati Union Terminal (CUT) had its own switching company.
  
• Armco (American Rolling Mill Co, now AK Steel, located north in Middletown, Ohio) and Proctor & Gamble both had their own in-plant railroads. I don't know if P&G still has theirs, but AK does.

The sad thing is that I am probably leaving a lot out.

 

[Steveo241]

• The Iowa Chicago and Eastern
• Canadian Pacific
• METRA
• Wisconsin and Southern
• And Amtrak...soon.

 

[brakemen]

my home town railroads is this:
in my city of dover del. we have had ex conrail now norfolk southern. I live just feets away from the tracks. when a string of 5 c44-9 norfolk southern engines comes rolling in to do some switching on the side tracks you'll here them. I go down the tracks and watch them standing on the nearest track. and then when the c44-9 engine takes off from a stand point that sounds great even if I were only about 5 ft away from the track.
brakemen

 

[evan123]

I live in Everett Washington

Here we have a large portion of BNSF's Northwest Division and an Amtrak station. BNSF has a relatively large yard here, and a smaller yard on the water front. With the offices near the yard too.

 

[Measure_Twice]

Arizona Eastern. We're a copper and gold mining town so there's a ton of ore carrier cars around. The SPIKE stages out of here during the winter and spring. Their kinda of a touristy thing.

 

[gary6204]

around here, weeve got UP, BNSF, and sound transit. the only odd ball ive seen is the SP gs-4 #4449 and UP 844

 

[gp792]

Norfolk Southern, CSX, Southern (Used to run in NC), Seaboard (No longer runs in NC-Now CSX), Chessie System(?), and Norfolk & Western (Freight Cars are still used, but no N&W engines)

 

[FlyingScottmond]

Read my signature! It has been there for a while!

 

[NAmenta]

I live in a small city in central Connecticut. When I was a kid we had Conrail. After the CSX merger the track rights went to a shortline called Connecticut Central. Now they belong to Providence and Worcester. I also don't live far from the CSX line and Amtrak is close by too.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Childhood memories

I vacationed as a kid in Bellefonte Pa. And now the Bellefonte Central is operating a tourist train RDC there. The Nittany & Bald Eagle RR interchange with Tyrone, Milesburg, and Williamsport is nearby.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BBWqZKQjU...R_1361_arriving_Bellefonte,_PA_10-25-1987.jpg

 

[FLWBStrainman]

Here in Bloomington, Indiana, all we've got is the INRD (Indiana Rail Road.) Up until 2002, CSX was here. Prior to that, it was the L&N, and even before that, the Monon. It might be of interest that it is rumored that the Indiana Rail Road will be bringing their total of SD90-43 MAC's up to 20.

 

[rastis]

G'day! :wave:

The main railway(s) in my CITY are the Trans Continental line, (Adelaide to Perth) and the main line to Melbourne. (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane)

Cheers!

Jake.

 

[xero]

CSX all day!!! Over the years I have nearly saw and documented all 117 of CSX's AC6000CWs #600-699 and 5000-5016.

 

[SPNGTyler]

Union Pacific "Choctaw Sub" runs right through my town. My town would not be here if it was never layed. Its a UP line that runs from Ft.Worth-Texarkana. LOTS of traffic.

 

[legolistic]

I live in Surrey BC. my local railroad is the Surrey rail link. CN, a bit of BNSF, CP and Amtrak run here as well. The local rapid transit is called the skytrain.

 

[Carfreak4]

Over where I am, it's:
CSX (exPC, exPRR), sometimes with UP/CN/BNSFpower
NS (exRDG); more often seen with patched CR locos
Septa (same as CSX)
Occasionally, Amtrak

 

[alex217]

I live in Melbourne, Australia.
We have trains and one of the largest tram networks in the world.
The Overlander and XPT travel through our regional services hub Southern Cross Station.

 

[SD45T-2]

AMTK,UP,CN,CSX,NOPB,BNSF,KCS,L&D,NS, and others I'm not willing to find out.