Working rail roads and their tracks.

[the old grind]

You guys are "too much"! :laughing:

I've been taking cold showers for days and am close to reporting ya's all for posting pornography.

(Please keep it up at least until I can afford to go to rehab. )

 

[Hay Dude]

I’m enjoying, too. Learning as well.

Related- some of the grumpier railroad engineers at my local railroad get mad at me for crossing tracks to get into hay fields. :laughing: Most of them wave and appreciate what I’m doing.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

In MD?

It’s been awhile since I’ve been out to see them. But there were some along I70 near Hancock. And a few up near the PA line along a track.

 

[Jstpssng]

Apologies for warping 痴, but could the screw-ons be 'finders keepers' without unseemly theft of a 'valuable resource'? It's pretty common that stuff can be bought for ~1/2 or less of what would be paid to haul it off. Some big companies are glad to have you ask.

btw, all this time, thanks to ArlyA and Moss for bringing this non-tractor 'candy' of a thread to full bloom. Y'don't learn hen s__ watchin' movies!!

The action is here, Gents, .. and maybe now with less f__ly politics by closeted "chicken-guts & co" armchair hobbyists. (no names, it's 'pages of' and heretofore irrelevant)

Just :cool2:, you guys !!!

"Real Men Love Trains!" Give them the respect they deserve for why they do. Men like them built what we take for granted.

Railroads built this Country across miles of marginal lands to connect the fruitful from Sea to Shining Sea. Let's not forget what 'Made America Great' in the first place. Not ownership, but teamwork. Thank a Teacher, and thank a Railroad Worker. We'd be __ without them.

When I was a kid the telephone company went down through tearing off cross arms and throwing them on the ground. My father got permission to pick them up, and brought a big pile home in the KB5 dump truck. We spent a fair amount of time stripping them then my father used the crossarms for building sheds, the metal hardware for various things, and we kept many of the insulators.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

There’s a neat old RR track roadbed in MD And WV following the Potomac river. Starting at big pool, the B@O main line now goes south and stays mainly in WV. The old track is now partly a rails to trail thru Hancock, down thru little orleans, pawpaw and beyond. Many old tunnels and river crossings.

 

[ArlyA]

btw, all this time, thanks to ArlyA and Moss for bringing this non-tractor 'candy' of a thread to full bloom. Y'don't learn hen s__ watchin' movies!!
The action is here, Gents, .. and maybe now with less f__ly politics by closeted "chicken-guts & co" armchair hobbyists. (no names, it's 'pages of' and heretofore irrelevant)
Just :cool2:, you guys !!!

You are welcome Old G. :thumbsup: I like machines and industrial history in general so RR's fit right into that. Plus I worked as a carmen for a few years.

 

[Hay Dude]

There’s a neat old RR track roadbed in MD And WV following the Potomac river. Starting at big pool, the B@O main line now goes south and stays mainly in WV. The old track is now partly a rails to trail thru Hancock, down thru little orleans, pawpaw and beyond. Many old tunnels and river crossings.

Are they along I-70 in Western MD? Out past Cumberland & Frostburg?
I've driven my daughter out to Ohio University (Athens, OH) that way and remember seeing a trail to rail along the road for quite a while.

 

[bcp]

A Florida farm railroad with 12 locomotives, 800 cars, and many miles of track.

Railroad - US Sugar

Bruce

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Are they along I-70 in Western MD? Out past Cumberland & Frostburg?
I've driven my daughter out to Ohio University (Athens, OH) that way and remember seeing a trail to rail along the road for quite a while.

Rail trail Follows Potomac, is right beside I70 from start at big pool to Hancock.

 

[Hay Dude]

Rail trail Follows Potomac, is right beside I70 from start at big pool to Hancock.

Yes that’s the one. I was looking at it during the 8 hour drive back from Athens wishing it was still a railroad....:thumbdown:
I kept thinking the boys running freight on those tracks back a few decades must have known their time was getting short when they saw the highways getting improved (trucks).