Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

I don't know the date or location of this photo.
http://archives.luketan.com/sc/wp-conte ... -flood.jpg

legsbluetrain wrote:I don't know the date or location of this photo.
http://archives.luketan.com/sc/wp-conte ... -flood.jpg

HAHA
CANT DO THAT TODAY

That's actually Portland in the mid-1910s. The view you see is now here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 89.34,,0,5

AndrewFields wrote:That's actually Portland in the mid-1910s. The view you see is now here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 89.34,,0,5

track taken up

legsbluetrain wrote:

AndrewFields wrote:That's actually Portland in the mid-1910s. The view you see is now here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 89.34,,0,5

track taken up

Oh yeah...a LONG time ago. The last train ran the street tracks on 3rd Avenue in the late 1970s, I believe. And on 2nd Avenue and Water Avenue around 1991, if memory servers correctly. They tore out quite a few of the tracks on 2nd Avenue last year but I'd say about half still remain. The ones on Water Avenue were paved over but not very well...you can clearly see them now including many of the spurs that used to serve industries down there.