I have all of my life and I do not meen withen a few miles. I am talkin' withen several feet.
It used to keep me awake. Now I can't sleep without it.
Roch
It used to keep me awake. Now I can't sleep without it.
Roch
When I was growing up, we lived in Fremont with the Western Pacific mainline running right behind the back fence. I didn't even notice the trains unless I was awake and watching trains. I noticed a hopuse near Blue Cut on the Cajon Pass that sits between the U.P. (exS.P.) main and the BNSF main. I mentioned to my wife that I would love to live in that house. For some reason, my wife wasn't impressed with the location of the house!
Where in the heck is Stockholm, WI ?
I did do a lot of traveling in WI and never heard of the town.
My wife grew up along the track in fact her dad would jump on the train to go to and from work for the B&O. The first night I slept in the house after we were married a train came through when I was sleeping.
I thought the darn house was falling down. I never could get back to sleep that night.
I used to love getting put in the hole at Clyde. We would walk over to this little convenience store towards the north end of the siding.We currently live less than 100' from CSX's Saginaw Subdivision at the south end of Clyde Siding. Not nearly as busy as it used to be now that there's not much left of GM in Flint and CSX abandoned some of the trackage up farther north. Doesn't help that CSX only goes to Flint Yard and then it's Lake State Railway from there. I do get to see coal trains with a lot of BNSF power though. The only drawbacks to this are that when he's southbound he blows that horn right in our backyard and we had to stop buying the incandescent light bulbs cause I think the vibrations were shortening the lives of the filaments in the bulbs.
I used to love getting put in the hole at Clyde. We would walk over to this little convenience store towards the north end of the siding.
When did CSX stop running all the way up to Saginaw?? That used to be my home terminal. It is the bane (and main LDE) on my Pere Marquette layout.
Yeah, the store is still there. Once in awhile they will still stop there, sometimes they will even stop at Mcdonalds. They aren't even "in the hole" when they stop sometimes.
I believe CSX sold off the property from Saginaw yard north just this past year, but I could be wrong. I do know that they still have quite a few stored HLCX units sitting in the north end of the yard.
I am almost sad that they got rid of it. A little bit more of the states history tossed aside. That yard, or a large part of it anyways, is well over 100 years old.