Tracks out of service

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Re: Tracks out of service

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TheSignalMan2000 wrote:Here's 2 crossings I took on Choctaw Dr. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that are out of service, I would of taken more pictures of these 2 crossings, but it was pouring down the rain and never got a chance to get more pictures done
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Note, the top picture, it's missing a crossbuck on the eastbound direction (the direction I was traveling) and the line was abandoned
How long has it been abandoned?
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Re: Tracks out of service

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LARDLOGO wrote:
TheSignalMan2000 wrote:Here's 2 crossings I took on Choctaw Dr. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that are out of service, I would of taken more pictures of these 2 crossings, but it was pouring down the rain and never got a chance to get more pictures done
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Note, the top picture, it's missing a crossbuck on the eastbound direction (the direction I was traveling) and the line was abandoned
How long has it been abandoned?
The top one sometime in the early 2000s
The bottom one sometime in the late 1990s
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Re: Tracks out of service

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Wow, the R.O.W. of that spur is completely plowed under on the other side of the crossing! Very difficult to trace where it went!
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Re: Tracks out of service

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Looks like that flat car has been there a long time. The car is visible on satellite view as well.
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cabman701 wrote: Looks like that flat car has been there a long time. The car is visible on satellite view as well.
That looks like MOW equipment on satellite view.
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TrainmanKight wrote:
cabman701 wrote: Looks like that flat car has been there a long time. The car is visible on satellite view as well.
That looks like MOW equipment on satellite view.
Yeah... after a 2nd look I think you are correct. I didn't zoom in far enough the 1st time.
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Re: Tracks out of service

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Amarillo, TX
Where the active line ends:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 4&t=h&z=20
Abandoned bridge:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 2,,0,-8.69
The tracks used to cross this intersection:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 8,,0,12.64
A section of the ROW has been turned into "The Rock Island Rail Trail".
Further along the ROW There are markings for the crossing that no longer exists.
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 3,,0,25.46
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 1,,0,14.38
The remains of the crossing mentioned above:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 4,,0,18.34
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 8,,0,24.48
Another abandoned bridge:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 8,,0,-1.67
Found the remains of a signal and some rails:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 15,,0,5.09
I think another signal stood here:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 16,,1,16.2
Abandoned crossing on an abandoned spur. The rails are still in place:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 39,,1,6.45
The ROW crossed here:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 2,,0,13.79
Bridge remains:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 1,,0,-0.18

Dallas, TX
Abandoned crossing that was part of a small warehouse line as it appears:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 16,,0,0.82
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 67,,0,4.07
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... ,6.79&z=20
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... ,8.59&z=20
Another abandoned crossing on a different line:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... ,2.28&z=19
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... ,7.99&z=19
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 13.43&z=19
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... -2.85&z=19
The track ends after these crossings, of which I am not even sure are in use anymore:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... ,6.85&z=20
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... ,1.55&z=20
Quite obviously abandoned:
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... ,5.41&z=21
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 12.35&z=21
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 11.89&z=21
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Re: Tracks out of service

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That Amarillo map satellite view shows a train just north of the end of the line!

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=3 ... 2&t=h&z=21

There seems to be a lot of activity at what appears to be a BNSF yard nearby, as well.
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Heres some tracks in Tampa, FL that never got torn up from the road
http://www.google.com/maps?ll=28.052884 ... 3,,0,-0.21
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