What railroads are in you hometown

[JackieG]

Ok. The ones i see.
CSX
Amtrak
Those i see daily.

Rochester Southen
NS
New York Susquahanna Western
Those i see if i'm luck.
Sometimes a BNSF coal train that come thorought ever week. I live about 4 miles from the tracks. One night i couldn't sleep so i counted train horns. I got 25! I wish i was at the crossing!

 

[sparky15]

I live in the sticks of Indiana. We have the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum and our township started the Chesapeake and Indiana Railroad.%

 

[chunkpowers]

Pan-am Railways( Guilford Rail System) usally numbered 350-353 Mec

 

[chunkpowers]

I have Amtrak (Shuttle, Vermonter, and Regional), and Connecticut Southern RR (freight).

West Hartford, Ct

and don't forget about the occasional Pan Am railways to and from plainville

 

[sparky15]

Sorry, last post got cut off with a power outage.
Like I said, I live in NW Indiana. We have the Hoosier Valley Historical Society and my township started the Chesapeake and Indiana. Google them up and see some neat stuff.
I live in English Lake and have an old C&O flop house on my property. I bought it to late to save it. It was built up against an abandoned second mainline. I put a new roof on it but the foundation is gone. The His and Hers outhouses are still standing.
Just across the river, an old Al Capone hotel has been set as an historical landmark. Sadly, I acquired the property to late to save what I have. I have taken down the hand made metal ceilings and tongue and groove floors. I have an old farmhouse and hope to save these and install them.
Not a mainline but the history is there. To bad I couldn't get the property soon enough to save it. All the timbers used for the foundation have been rotted out or washed away.
Old stuff but pretty cool, I think.
Dave......

 

[miodusi]

I live near Union Pacific and Amtrak!

 

[anne6c5]

Only CSX in my town and fun to watch too.

 

[mhicaso]

Hamilton Ontario, Canadian Pacific(former TH&B), CN Rail, Rail Link,
Go Transit, Amtrak, and VIA RAIL.

 

[Tremain]

I live in SE Michigan outside of Detroit,MI.
CN,

CSX/ mostly NS through the CR shared assets program on the Detroit Line,

BNSF & UP(Ocassionally through NS/CSX to acess the Monroe Power Plant & Zug Island)

On another note Amtrak use to run trains to Toledo through my home town.

 

[hauntedclipp]

I live in Southern California, north of San Diego. An ex-California Southern, ex-Santa Fe branch runs through my town.

Now it's owned by the San Diego Northern (North County Transit District), was upgraded a few years ago, and now runs NCTD's Sprinter trains. First passenger service on the line since the '40s, I've learned.

Three nights a week, the BNSF's Escondido Local runs through.

 

[Torpedo423]

Im out in Baltimore, just south of the city. I usally watch trains around the St. Denis area. CSX, MARC, Amtrak is nearby. NS is in the city so I guess that could count

 

[UP4021]

Alright. Let's see... what do I have by me. I have:
UP, UP, UP, the occasional Metra and... more UP.

oh wait, did I mension UP? :hehe:

Hang on, there is an interchange with the EJ&E a town over.
:wave:

 

[sawyer811]

Now it's KCS, UP, BNSF, ICE (Seen there engines on a liftbridge--which area dime a dozen here) and Amtrak, with a hint of the old KCT (only seen their "Banana" GP35s once, and at night) but back in the glory days, the days i was sadly born to late to see, it was CB&Q, KCS, Rock Island, MoPac, AT&SF, CGW, Frisco, and my personal favorite, the road i wish i could have seen, the MKT. Miss Katy will always be in my heart, even though i was born 5 years too late to see her. I'd give anything to go back in time to see one of her H-3-b 4-6-2s leading the streamlined Texas Eagle out of San Antonio, leaving ample time to service the E7s, or watch her L1 and L2 Mikes leading the time frieghts. I'd love to stand by the dirt-ballasted Northwest District and see J5 moguls doubleheading forty grain boxcars, or a high-stepping 4-4-0 on trains 53 and 54.

sorry, had a bit of a reverie there. can't help loving the railway i love; you can thank my grandpa for that on with the show.

 

[Jokel317]

Indianapolis,Indiana here plenty of CSX action with INRD (Indiana Railroad),LIRC Louisville & Indiana),ISRR (Indiana Southern Railroad) A RailAmerica railroad. Amtrak has 2 services The Cardinal and the Hoosier and one of there main shops as most know is in Beech Grove,Indiana which resides in Marion County same as Indianapolis.

 

[davidakridge]

Here in the port city of Mobile, Alabama we have CSX that services the coast between Mobile and New Orleans. Norfolk Southern services up to the north and CN that brings coal in from Chicago to McDuffy Island Coal terminal. I see some UP and BNSF pumpkin skins every now and then. On any given day I can get pictures of almost any of the Class 1 locos.

Few years ago it was Illinois Central. In the old days it was L&N on the CSX line, Southern on the NS line, Gulf, Mobile, & Ohio (GM&O). We still have the GM&O headquarters building in downtown. It's been restored for office buildings

 

[NIARTcar]

Union Pacific Mainline linking Stockton and San Jose CA.... It sees daily traffic from ACE (A local express commuter line) as well as the occasional diverted Amtrak. Shortline action mostly involves California Northern (a division of RailAmerica) which switches a variety of industies in the area.

cheers

 

[daylightguy]

There are Union pacific and metra trains CN used to run on a line that crossed over the west line but abandoned it for about 2 or three years after they bought the EJ&E.

 

[flyinsolo]

BNSF ex/Frisco here, not much action out here in KS.:hehe:

 

[nugget2225]

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my hometown is lebanon indiana and most of what i have seen is csx and conrail

 

[ptrainman]

NS is the only thing in my area. There are 2 NS lines are within 30 miles of me.


Paul