Railroad Images without Trains

Topic re-opened per request from member "ACE"....

Thanks,

Alan

Disused railway bridge near Lilydale Falls Tasmania 2009.

BN triple track at the DesPlaines River, 1995.

Abandoned track at Fort Lewis, WA. The Freedom Train rolled over here behind 4449 in the 70s...

Diamond...

I dropped in a train taken in the 30s from the exact same spot, put into a photo of nothing but track. The location is Pardee Point along the old ET&WNC 3-footer. Track was laid back in the 60s for an ill-fated tourist operation and is owned/maintained by the fine folks at a Christian camp there, today.

Does this prove that raccoons like trains, too?

And my favorite 'no train' shot ever:

Here's a few

CSX Metropolitan Subdivision (x-B&O) CPL signals at Ward's siding in Gaithersburg,MD., view is westbound.
Eastward view at Orleans Cross Roads,WV
Westward view of CSX MT. Airy,MD. branch formerly B&O main line. Stubbed switch at left formed 1 leg of a wye that
connected the 2 x-B&O mains until the end of steam.

Whereizit??? Diamond crossing of x-WM RWY. spurs, stone's throw away from the Potomac River

All images by Warren W. Jenkins, 2011

That literal diamond in the dirt is a compelling shot. I, too, would love to know where this is, even though I'm on the other side of the country...

NS northbound home signals at Dalton, GA.

Curt

Here's one of my favorites - Deshler, Ohio

Layout without  signals is not a layout.

Thanks, John

          The start of Saluda Grade at Melrose, NC. (Winter 2015)

NYC,SUBWAY TRANSIT SIGNAL posted:

Layout without  signals is not a layout.

Tell that to any narrow gauge modeler.

They'd disagree strongly.

As would I.

Hey, this shortline has signals.....if there are two trains out on the line, and, like Casey Jones, faced with one that hasn't gotten into a passing siding.....and if the phone box isn't working, one of the Navajo brakeman climbs up on a mesa and sends up three puffs of smoke.  When the track clears, two go up, this all about five minutes apart.  We haven't had any cornfield meets, but...we don't have any cornfields...

NYC,SUBWAY TRANSIT SIGNAL posted:

Layout without  signals is not a layout.

 

Thanks, John

We operate with train orders, and have appropriate stations with train order boards. Thus, we don't need no stinking signals!

Can someone please tell me what causes the track to peel like that?

John

SP Swing bridge across the Petaluma River in Novato, CA.  This bridge was just refurbished to accommodate the new Sonoma-Marin Area Rapid Transit Train (SMART) which is coming.  And...yes...ya gotta have signals on your layout...no stinkin "train orders."  Matt 

Station safe at Riverside, IL.

N&W Class J posted:

Looking west from the Plano,IL station on BNSF's Mendota Sub.

Interesting image that you captured Chris. Not only did they cut each row of pavers diagonally where they end because the station is askew from the tracks, they had to cut the entire platform length of pavers diagonally to allow the black safety line to be installed. A lot of work!

BobbyD posted:

N&W Class J posted:

Looking west from the Plano,IL station on BNSF's Mendota Sub.

Interesting image that you captured Chris. Not only did they cut each row of pavers diagonally where they end because the station is askew from the tracks, they had to cut the entire platform length of pavers diagonally to allow the black safety line to be installed. A lot of work!

Yeah I was there watching when they were replacing the old brick that was there with these pavers, it was quite the job indeed.  They were doing that job and adding a few things for Amtrak.  This is what was down there.

You never said tracks without other forms of transport.

Took this at lunch, an hour ago.

Somewhere in the Great White North on the Algoma Central in September, 1984:

Rusty

p51 posted:

That literal diamond in the dirt is a compelling shot. I, too, would love to know where this is, even though I'm on the other side of the country...

The diamond in the dirt is in Williamsport, MD., an obscure corner of the old Western Maryland RWY.
This trackage did serve as the western terminus of WM from 1873-1892, eastbound freight was transferred from C&O canal boats to the WM's trains heading east.
The peculiar RR lift bridge pictured here is just behind the photographer in the diamond shot.
It was built just before closure of the canal in 1924 so that a new power plant could have rail access.
It was rarely moved in the 60 years that the power plant had rail service.

Compare the 1971 shot with my image from 2011, the power plant spur runs right to left across the photo, tracks run east another 1/4 mile to the plant, at one time there was a sizable yard there. The switchback spur crosses the diamond goes under the US11 bridge, and ends at Cushwa's wharf, a large building here is a NPS C&O Canal museum.

The rest of the 2011 images show the area around this bridge, in the background of 1 image is the other historic bridge here, a 1879 Bollman-built iron truss, used to gain access to a city-owned park next to the Potomac river.

NS bridge at Shepherdstown WV. Note the sign says Maryland State Line.  The Potomac River is some 90' below and MD owns all of it plus a little bit more.

CSX FAN posted:

Bummer that Kinzua Viaduct was largely destroyed by a freak tornado in 2003 when it was in the process of undergoing repairs for preservation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinzua_Bridge

The bridge was originally built from iron in 1882 and was billed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World", holding the record as the tallest railroad bridge in the world for two years. In 1900, the bridge was dismantled and simultaneously rebuilt out of steel to allow it to accommodate heavier trains. It stayed in commercial service until 1959 ... Before its collapse, the Kinzua Bridge was ranked as the fourth-tallest railway bridge in the United States.

I took 20 pictures of this cantilever in 2015 knowing it was "not long for this world".

Lubbock, TX   BNSF (P&SF) Canyon Jct.

I didn't get in trouble for being in the R_O_W, but I was "spoken to" by a signal maintainer.   HeHe !!

Two views of the Quanah, Acme & Pacific depot at historic Roaring Springs, TX taken in 2010. 

28 years before, I set out an empty rail train consist at this depot and picked up dozens of gondolas loaded with trestle parts....sad occasion.

Facing northbound...the old tracks leading to the Southern Pacific Bayshore Yard and the new CalTrain tracks with concrete ties going into San Francisco.

In the news...Cajon Pass Blue Cut fire (Photo by Ruedi Schai)

Rochelle Rail Park at dusk

Fostoria Iron Triangle Rail Park during Rail Heritage Days

Tom

jay jay posted:

In the news...Cajon Pass Blue Cut fire (Photo by Ruedi Schai)

Wow. I'm not religious, but if I believed in a railroad to Hell, I think it'd look just like this!