Google Maps Railfanning Section (READ RULES!)

Nice!

Did you see this on the Pioneer Lines?

https://goo.gl/maps/r8oXpAuGL9q3ernw9

and on the EPRY, there's a switcher in one of the older pictures. Go down to the left to the crossing and look back. You have to change the date.

Now for the stupid part, the line was cut a few miles out to the left and it's becoming a rail-trail! :(
 
OddRails said:
Definitely a disadvantage for us rail fans.

:-(
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Yeah, it's not nice for us railfans when railroads get shut down and turned into trails. There was a RR in Delaware, called the DCLR that got closed a couple years ago and they paved over it and made it a bike trail. It's a nice trail, but I'd rather have tracks. I remember when those lines used to be active too, it wasn't too long ago.
 
After I messed around for an hour...

BNSF 1529 & 2948 switching in Grand Forks MN (extra points if you can find the caboose)
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.9172701,-97.0662175,3a,90y,29.61h,69.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1se4PWAQDkqS6L2KqB3imh7w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

FURX 5522 and BNSF 2629
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.9163413,-97.0477636,3a,15y,344.06h,86.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9LfupSujOFIS4-LYiAF07g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Independent Locomotive Service 1373
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.1247722,-96.1768394,3a,90y,63.32h,95.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syZpIhqEkn65kcCsAzNZnaw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

CSX 843 & 593
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.898...4!1sg78Nqh2OCGp7a2LvoUTlzg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Connecticut Southern 2038 and a mystery engine
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.781...4!1s13MgOoyeGXZKWfdBocLujA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

New Haven 127 &130 and MTA 115 & 208 and two Metro North trainsets
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.049...4!1srVwoW9zQzdbMJalBP25kbA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Amtrak 619, and if you move around you can see some MOW workers and a HI-rail box truck
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.055...4!1sk-1zdPeoArGOKTYY5NE72Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Acela 2027
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.055...4!1sZjlG5bEAIHO4yQy6n3s_5A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Two F units, IDK the RR
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.658...4!1sXUcsrlRWIQtMCvDlM9kGNw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

UP 6424 & 7039
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.743...4!1s6tMXkC0QXvBb2Fho0_QS5w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

BNSF 4517 & 5694 and Amtrak F40PH and Trinity Rail Express train in far distance and intermodal pounding the diamond
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.748...4!1s1dH-40vLae8nt4GEGBYy9g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

LORAM Grinder and Amtrak P42
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.745...4!1shg96FN3NWL4Jmiqv81mBTA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
 
That railroad museum in Lapahoehoe (Big island, north of Hilo) is run by an older gentleman and he has lots of stories of the sugar cane train that used to run north from Hilo to the cane fields. Lots of tunnels still exist. Because of the channeled nature of the slopes, it was mostly tunnels and bridges. It would make a great tourist train, but I think it is unavailable at this point. I think it would make a great short route in Trainz though! The old roundhouse in Hilo still exists and can be found with Google.
 
kaw4014 said:
Tiny steam engine and caboose (if you move)
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.874...4!1s0Q5TwfAQIzATcMKwzibUYg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Maine Central caboose hiding behind gas station. Move to see more of it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.869...4!1sYDe1po2DydGY9AIb2WNEOw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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I've seen those in real life. Simsbury, CT is about 200 km from where I live and we've passed through the area while traveling to New York. The railroad equipment is there because of the former New Haven Farmington branch, now rail-trail. The tracks came up a long time ago, I think in the early 1940s. I eyed the ROW for a route project, but never got around to it.

Simsbury, sadly will never see any real trains today even if the line could be rebuilt. The region is stuffed with NIMBYs who would shoot down a rail project before the first meeting launched to discuss it.
 
kaw4014 said:
Meet on massive trestle (BNSF)
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.954...4!1sdQMfDwOnbeCOhmDlhCWNLw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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Nice find. New Orleans, Louisiana (LA), has quite a lot of rail lines and action to watch down there due to the port area located at the mouth of the Mississippi River. New Orleans is also a crossroads on the Gulf of Mexico with lines that run east to west from Florida to California and North-South from Chicago down to New Orleans.

I recommend also look at the Baton Rouge area as well. There's quite a bit of rail traffic there as well with lots of short branches, industrial switching, and some main lines.
 
JCitron said:
Nice find. New Orleans, Louisiana (LA), has quite a lot of rail lines and action to watch down there due to the port area located at the mouth of the Mississippi River. New Orleans is also a crossroads on the Gulf of Mexico with lines that run east to west from Florida to California and North-South from Chicago down to New Orleans.

I recommend also look at the Baton Rouge area as well. There's quite a bit of rail traffic there as well with lots of short branches, industrial switching, and some main lines.
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Thanks for the tip, i'll check the area out

Grand Trunk and Western 5823 and various CN locomotives
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.468...4!1sjtUANAO4Ytz1Cgo3W99Xmw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Two KCS SW1500s
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.459...307.61884&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656

Two WB UP's
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.313...4!1s4_luVbywfzCZmVBcaGT_SA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Very close detail of MOW equipment
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.355...4!1sOlt-JsD2GFDF9efJrUJW4A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Louisiana Cypress Lumber CO. #3
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.438...4!1sbBhYQfysXAju3vP6f6jFhw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192


Shinkansen.....In Louisiana?!?
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.436...4!1sahil_dECVrXaOXS6HnL01Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Garden Train Layout with ACL freight on a high trestle
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.988...147.25908-ro0.00045252047-fo100!7i5472!8i2736

Model RR Museum cute mural
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.389...4!1s8v68ibQUqkQFhk5Y0yO4FQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Steam Engine hiding in the suburbs
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.531...4!1s6PGORzajLIMgT7wWKBEisA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
 
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After an hour...

In Louisiana and Mississippi;

Patriot Rail 102 and Louisiana North West 55
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.546...4!1sggA2lTRGiWyogRX8PMq8iQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

UP 4178 & 8330 and various CN and GT engines in background
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.326...4!1sM3Xu3nRQ-NVhTrMWaQrfRQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

BN B Unit, Natchez Railway and UP U23B(?)
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.528...4!1sl8BYgwELdcZ46iYK3lCcXw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

New Orleans and Gulf Coast RR 3875
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.906...4!1smzZA1hmeL8UnafinCcJMng!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Three blurry mystery engines
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.608...4!1sS-3nC9h_Utc_1NCgsycXMA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

GOLD MINE of historic engines, a engine cab shell and wheels and other parts, short line engines and many switchers
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.549...4!1skImSXTLMyZLDpnpBCHFQyg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Genesee & Wyoming 1503, 1707 and 2000
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.007...4!1s56bIfd4Coid18wVvu-vQUA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

KCS 2819, 2973, 2844 and WAMX 1579, 4015 and a crashed tanker on a flatcar
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.578...4!1sAp1kBSJZ-CR0IWV5IAJKpQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Blurriest photo you'll ever see of a WAMX engine
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.349...m4!1sqJW65NR2jyqzou1slKz_oQ!2e0!7i3328!8i1664

New Orleans Public Belt RR enigne
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.916...4!1sCS_a2wTyjIGGudQBZ8ZWLA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Florida East Coast 822 & 815 with LNG fuel tank in middle
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.241...4!1sQl4G7W5KUC_hu_MUjQexcA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

GMTX and BNSF switcher pair
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.982...82.111755&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656

In Jersey;

New Jersey Transit 4633
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.649...4!1sOaNRLVPGdZETXKVHD7lHMw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

NJT 4635 and annoyingly placed box truck
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.642...4!1sSNNQulrfYRe-b5WmV8NWAA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

NJT at Linden Station
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.630...4!1sRfllRhh0DnCgYYAr9S6UIg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

NJT just after pulling out of Rahway Station
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.596...4!1syCuPcgOVWUnYXuiOunWKaA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

NJT 4656 at Metropark Station
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.569...4!1si0tPJzlTUujyf-GBi2E92g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

New Jersey Transit . . . in Colorado?!?
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.467...4!1s7P7Zlc0WUam-qlvDJzESBQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Miscellaneous;

Virginia Railway Express at L'Enfant Station in DC
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.885...-no-pi-0-ya285.68628-ro0-fo100!7i12000!8i6000

A few museum pieces in South Fork, Colorado
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.675...4!1sPVpvBVESIVcwlSceUBYTtg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Long Island RR RS3 1556
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.920...85.361755&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i16384!8i8192

Tiny Steamer #16, LIRR bay window caboose, MTA trainset and other goodies
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.919...4!1stBXqktLauG3g6HVt5qBxpA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Steam engine in Britain
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.923...-k-no-pi-0-ya271.3697-ro0-fo100!7i7680!8i3840
 
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