Haswell, CO: Grain elevator with a tall headhouse

(Satellite)

The railroad used to be Missouri Pacific. Now it is Colorado, Kansas & Pacific.

Bob Kisken posted
Sugar City Colorado [Actually, this elevator is in Haswell, CO.]

Comments on Bob's post

Street View
Dennis DeBruler commented on Bob's post
Is this the same elevator but they have shortened the headhouse?
38°14'02.7"N 103°39'42.7"W

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Muscoda, WI: Milwaukee Depot

(Satellite, north of the track between Wisconsin Ave. and 2nd Street)

This Milwaukee route is now owned by Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR).

Sam Carlson posted
MILW depot Muscoda, WI 5-15-74 Ted Schnepf photo

Dennis DeBruler commented on Sam's post
I used old aerial photos to verify it was between Wisconsin Avenue and 2nd Street. It was torn down between 1982 and 1992.
1983 Muscoda Quadrangle @ 1:24,000

Street View
Dennis DeBruler commented on Sam's post
On the aerial photos I noticed a white strip along the north side of the track. Sure enough, you can still see the depot's platform along the track.

Waunakee, WI: Chamber of Commerce/C&NW Depot

(Satellite)

Street View, Jul 2019

Trent Briggs posted

Brian Allen: Still standing

Local chamber of Commerce offices occupy the building

It is interesting how this town grew to the Southeast. I had trouble finding the depot because I started my search along the tracks at the south end.

1959/60 Waunakee Quad @ 24,000

Sheffield, AL: NS/Southern Railyard and Backshops

Eastern Yard: (Satellite, just the mainline is left.)

Western Yard: (Satellite, some of the tracks are left.)

Shops: (Satellite, now an industrial park and trees.)

Tim Starr posted
After having labor troubles at its shops in Memphis, the Southern Railway built new shops in Sheffield AL in 1902. Included a 15-stall roundhouse, machine shop 100 x 100 feet, blacksmith, storehouse, planing mill, paint shop, and car repair shed 200 by 60 feet. Served by 2 transfer tables. (Railway Age)

Dennis DeBruler commented on Tim's post
The shops were between Cherokee and Shop Pikes, https://maps.app.goo.gl/tECR6gLXNzxzimZd6. 1952/58 Tuscumbia and 1957/58 Florence Quads @ 24,000

It looks like there may have been a roundhouse in the southwest part of the land.

Oct 13, 1953 @ 60,000; ARA001080505446

Clarksburg, WV: Glass Factories and B&O Routes

(Satellite)

These factories are another reminder that a lot of glass used to be made in West Virginia.

WVNC Rails posted

Back to my heritage.....

This aerial image captures a view looking west through a Clarksburg, WV now lost to time. The once prominent glass industry and the preponderance of the B&O Railroad are on display in this 1967-1970 photograph that also features the new US 50 four lane highway that once completed would reach Parkersburg (Corridor D).

Dominating the scene at the bottom of the image is the mammoth Hazel-Atlas glass plant that borders both the B&O main line passing through the center of the photo and the original WV&P yard situated in the center. At the upper left the Adamston Flat Glass plant is visible and at upper center, the Rolland Glass Plant. All three of these plants have since closed and vanished beneath the bulldozer tread.

Trains were everywhere on B&O lines radiating from the city during this era. At center moving top to bottom is the Parkersburg Branch (main line) which in its entirety is the St. Louis line. Also at center is the junction with the MR Subdivision which extended to Fairmont of which can be traced along the West Fork River at upper right. Extending south from center (left from yard) is the former West Virginia & Pittsburgh Railroad route that ran southeast to Weston and Richwood. The line was truncated at Weston in the 1940s when the railroad was abandoned between Weston and Burnsville.

Short Line Junction is visible at upper center. Here, the Short Line diverged from the Parkersburg Branch and ran northwest to New Martinsville on the Ohio River. All that remains of the railroad scene in Clarksburg today (CSX) is the main line from the east (Grafton) to Short Line Junction (in name only now) and the Short Line from that point. The main line to Parkersburg, the MR Sub, and the WV&P line to Weston are long gone.

This image includes exceptional detail of circa 1970 Clarksburg for either a general or railroad historian. Too bad a train such as the St. Louis Trailer Jet or Gateway 97 could not have been passing through on the B&O main line when the photo was taken. Image Harrison County Historical Society

Randall Hampton shared

Phillip Cottrille: By the late 1970’s the landscape was changing drastically.

Adamston Flat (Clearlite) was gone.

Rolland Glass was shuttering.

Hazel-Atlas was leaving.

Jerry Run had not even gotten a good start when it started to fail.

Ingersol-Rand was preparing to leave.

The warehouses in Glen Elk and Montpelier became empty.

Total job loss in Harrison County would eventually amount to “thousands”!

Even with the B&O still operating it was doomed after the 1963 reconstruction and the hundreds of millions spent on changing the height of tunnels to accommodate the taller cars but by the early 80’s trains, westward would cease to run and with the “governments” program to put coal out of business the rail services going south disappeared.

Although small in comparison to Clarksburg and Parkersburg all of the communities westward along the B&O suffered when the RR were terminated and the new Route 50 also bypassed all of them basically killing a majority of the “small town” businesses.

The NBRT was promised to have a HUGE impact on those communities but it has never come to fruition. When the State Park (North Bend) became the provider of maintenance along the 80+ miles of abandoned rail ROW it cost taxpayers to help maintain said ROW while taking away from the Park in Ritchie County.

It eventually became its own endeavor but again, another entity funded by Grants, Private Donations and Gifts and as a 501c3 NO tax base.

So the RR left and had been a financial contributor to all of the communities and now the NBRT has replaced a financial plus with a financial burden.

Again, IMOPO!

1958/77 Clarksburg Quad @ 24,000

Bradford, OH: Preserved Pennsy (BF)Tower: Pennsy vs. Pennsy

(Satellite, 33 photos)

The Pennsy railroad is gone, but the tower is extant.

Stephen Francia, Nov 2022

1944/44 Covington Quad @ 62,500

They have also preserved at least some of the signaling pipelines.

Stephen Francia, Nov 2022

Aloysius Rahm, Sep 2017

William Martin, Jan 2020

Other photos show that they preserved much of the equipment on the second floor, so I wonder if they also preserved the interlocking machine on the first floor.

William Martin, Jun 2020

Darren Reynolds posted five photos with the comment:

Pennsylvania Railroads 

"Bradford" tower 

Bradford, Ohio

Jim Subler: The tower is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned and operated by the Bradford Ohio Railroad Museum.

Jim Kelling: It’s well worth a visit; see also the local museum for more railroad exhibits.

1

A Conrail train passes "Bradford" tower Dec. 1981

Photo by: David P. Oroszi

2

"Bradford" tower on June 13, 1971with the train order signal out...

Photo by:David P. Oroszi

3

The interlocking machine and model board at "Bradford" tower

Photo by: Wally Mattes (No Date)

4

The right of way at " Bradford" tower on July 27, 1975

Photo by: David P. Oroszi

5

A Penn Central freight train passes by "Bradford" tower

Photo by: David P. Oroszi (No Date)

All images from North American Interlockings States A to Z and Canada...

Creston, OH: Junction Tower: Erie vs. NKP

(Satellite, location found with the aerial photo and confirmed by the railfan photo.)

Logan Detwiler posted
Westbound Erie Railroad train 5 The Lake Cities with the lead Alco PA-1 856, with EMD E8(A) 823 in two-tone green Erie Railroad passenger colors, crossing the Nickel Plate Road tracks at Creston, Ohio November 1956. Photo part of a slide collection, Roger Lalonde photo
Tim Shanahan shared

1961/62 Creston Quad @ 24,000

Apr 21, 1952 @ 17,000; AR1PH0000080135