Your Nearest Rail Line & Milepost

Sjc- where do you live?

Gladstone Junction.

 

NJ Transit Lines.

 

About 7 or so miles away from home.

Hinton West Virginia

3 Blocks from front door Amtrak Station and CSX yard office

Milepost CA 357.7

 

Closest to me would be NS at the intersection of Huguenot and Robious Roads in Midlothian, Va. As for the NS milepost#, I dunno.

 

Gilly

Florida East Coast. 1000 ft as the crow flies. milepost 323.8 (railroad crossing ) when I'm home i hear every train that goes by

Closest to me would be the Yadkin Valley RR. The Mount Airy line is about 150 yards from my front door.

http://www.gulfandohio.com/yadkin-valley-railroad

 

The B/C line of NYC transit is about half a block from my house but the station is three blocks away. I don't know the milepost.

NJ Transit Montclair-Boonton line about 1000 ft from my house.  Can hear all the daily trains. Not sure of the milepost.

Silver Lake:  Here is a link that will help you figure out your nearest "mile post" even though, on the subway, they're not called that. The link will tell you all you ever needed to know (and then some.)  It makes my head hurt to read it all, but it's the definitive reference.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...City_Subway_chaining

 

 

Falmouth branch line down by the docks approx. 6 miles.

James

Nearest line - Ex Lehigh Valley main is 2-1/2 blocks away.

 

Nearest milepost - About 25' from my back door.

 

 

Mile post 98, Greenport, NY, on the L I R R mainline. It's a mile over water, and another mile up and over the hill where I live on Shelter Island, but I hear them tooting.  The distance is measured from Penn Station, NY.

Florida East Coast for me. I'm about three miles east of the mainline where it crosses Racetrack Road about four miles south of Bayard just south of Jacksonville. I can hear them pulling hard about 11:30 PM each night heading for Miami and points south.

BNSF Mainline, milepost 36, about a 1/2 mile.

 

Steve

 

 

Closest is the Chestnut Ridge Railway, about 1/2 mile away. I have no idea if they even do mile posts, since they don't have much of a main line anymore.

 

This interchanges with NS about 3 miles from me (other side of town) on the Lehigh Line West (ex. CNJ)

 

Of course, we have the abandoned parts on the Chestnut Ridge nearby, and the abandoned LNE and LV out near NS.

CSX e/w mainline in Tallahassee about ten miles south, but I drive over it to and from work each day. I saw a UP pulling a handful of cars on it a few months ago. 

BNSF about 4-5 miles from (I think) Craig. Don't know the milepost? Will see if I can find it. Until last year we lived about 6-8 blocks from the BNSF line in old town Lenexa, KS, milepost unknown there also.

 

Couldn't find the mileposts, but old town Lenexa tracks were formerly Frisco tracks, and the ones we are near now are formerly AT&SF tracks.

I'm 2 miles from CPR mainline here in Calgary. Same distance to CPR Intermodal Yard.

 

No idea of milepost.

I live even closer to the NS line Gilly@N&W listed.......it is a historic line.....the ROW of the old Richmond & Danville........Jefferson Davis' escape route from Richmond in April 1865. 

 

Peter

I am about 20 minutes (by car) from my house to the freight yard which included the locomotive shops for the Soo Line which was sold to the Wisconsin Central which was merged into the CN. I don't know of any mile markers for this locale, but it does have a storied past.  

I'm about a mile away from the NS Lehigh Line past the Bethlehem steel. I sometimes sit at CP88 to watch them. It also connects to the east end of the Allentown yard.

Ralph

Closest to me is the BNSF Memphis line running out of the ex Frisco Lindenwood yard. The milepost is unknown, but I'm very close to the viaduct crossing Gravois Avenue.

 

Jeff C

Three roads..

At the Illinois house ( where I am now) it's about a mile to the Wisconsin and Southern line ( former Milwaukee Road Madison bypass) that connects to METRA. and in Antioch proper..equal distance to the former Soo Line to Chicago.

In NC, I am the same distance from the CSX line to Wilmington.

I live two minutes from the Portland & Western in Beaverton, Oregon (west side of Portland).  It's former Southern Pacific.  The house I grew up in, 175 miles south of Chicago, was nestled close to the north-south mainline of the Illinois Central, the Peoria Division of the IC and the east-west NYC (Big Four).  My hometown was a good place to be a railfan in the 60's, but each night here, I can hear the evening P&W freight and the horn at the grade crossings.  I like it :-)

I live about 1/2 mile from the former PRR Ft. Wayne Line in Delphos, OH. MP 274.5.  The long abandoned AC&Y MP 0.5 is about 500 feet from our front door.  The Nickle Plate Clover Leaf Line ran with the AC&Y from the yards on the north end of town to the PRR junction, but I have no idea what the mile post was.

 

All that is left is the single track remnants of the PRR, now operated by CF&E.  There is also a short branch from the NKP Clover Leaf Line serving some agri-business west of town.

 

Tom

Amtrak North East Corridor MP 162.3

MP 28 on the old Erie Pascack Valley line (Nanuet, NY).

About a mile West of milepost 32 Indiana Harbor Belt.

 

 

CP 61 on the Norfolk Southern Youngstown Line in Struthers, OH.

Joe

 

You had me looking there for a second. We are missing our MP 9-60 off the PRR Fredrick branch.

 

What Rail line is that from? CNJ?

 

Jamie

 

 

 

I didn't think we'd get as manypost to my question. This has bee great.

Before moving here in 95, we live 2 miles north of the CSX Plymouth sup. I use to listen to the scanner and the enginers call out crossings, before the Jacksonville Fl control to over. Could here'm all night. Even CP Rail canisters ruunging through tp Grand Rapids and Chi Town.

 

Here's the photo I side I'd try to post. the South bound GLC runs when needed and connectes with the Toledo Ann Arbor north of A2 town.

 

 Hum, my photo wont post Oh Well maybe next time

I have an ex-BNSf branchline a block and a half from my front door.  In fact, I can see it as I am typing this.  I think it officially called Illinois Railnet and it hauls only silica sand from the mines around Ottawa and Streeter, IL to Aurora, IL where it meets the mainline of the BNSF.  I will have to try to find a milepost marker.  Interesting topic.

 

Art

No, the map is a web grab from ihbrr.com

Nice Dan, my love of trains was quickly developing growing up by the Erie Lackawanna Pascack Valley Line in Hillsdale. (NJ)

 

Paul

This is about a mile away North East Corridor and the CSX bridge is about a mile further up the river.  Both rail lines cut through the city.  Across the River is Perryville where the Port Road turns on the Wye.  Amtrak, NS and CSX

Santa Fe San Bernardino Yard and San Bernardino Depot -- about 4 miles west. Long-abandoned Redlands Loop -- about 1 mile north.

The nearest RR is about a stone's throw away. Luzerne County operates a short/transfer line between Wilkes-Barre and Ashley, servicing the Hanover Industrial Park, and several, businesses in Wilkes-Barre, including a scrap yard and brewery. The line almost encircles Ashley, as it makes its way from the industrial park just to the south, heading north behind our house, and circling northwest through Goose Island, an area dividing Wilkes-Barre and Hanover Twp. 

I wish I had my camera with me today, as I parallelled a switcher pulling two gondolas of scrap to Wilkes-Barre to be transferred to NS. The NS and Canadian Pacific share trackage in Hanover Twp and Wilkes-Barre. The CP also runs through Mountain Top, sharing trackage with the Reading and Northern. Mountain Top is about 2 miles south as the crow flies. 

Don

 

CSX Trenton Sub, MP QA 11.24 450 feet from our front door.