While wandering the other day I was looking at some wayside remnants, and thought it might be an interesting thread. There are still lots of old time railroading remnants around, all we need do is pay attention.
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I am sure there are more out there, even where railroads no longer exist.
Charlie

We got lots around here, but it is rich with railroad history. The poles and isolators are everywhere near the track, steam train coal tipples wasting away on hillsides, converted buildings which still have names/info on them, there's even Conrail no tresspassing signs still on poles near the tracks

Yeah, you can't miss the stuff in the Northeast. I can see the old Reading Viaduct to what was Reading Terminal (now part of the Philadelphia Convention center). Plenty of "gaps" in the woods, rails jutting out of odd places before submerging back into the earth.

Personally, I'd like to find whats left of the Philadelphia, Marlton & Lumberton Railroad in New Jersey, which pretty much would have been a direct train route from my house to the train I currently take to get to classes (nope, missed it by 80 years, gotta drive on I-295). I think some trestles remain, or pieces of them. The junction in Haddonfield, NJ was probably obliterated when the PATCO was built, but I suspect parts of it may remain.

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There is a lot of that here, where all the old coal mines were serviced by rail, including the ghostly outlines of two towns that have disappeared. The Canon City - Florance region is archaeologically rich with railroad remnants, old water towers, loading platforms, tipples, sidings, grades and all of it. There are even a couple of boxcars locally being used as storage sheds for farmers.

I can add a few shots to this thread... former DL&W concrete tower and signal bridge in East Stroudsburg PA.


Another signal bridge just north of the same tower. This ones just a little over grown.



Another DL&W tower just beyond another signal bridge in East Stroudsburg, about a mile and 1/2 south of the first one along the same set of rails. It's located right next to the now preserved Dansbury depot also in East Stroudsburg.

Some of the hiking trails in Algonquin Park in Ontario follow the old Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway route. You can still see railway ties in the earth on some of these trails. There are also ruins of old railway bridges, a few buildings & foundations -- these are from the late-19th century/early-20th century when rail would have been the only way into the Park & these facilities would have been flourishing.

Also, near Collingwood, Ont., (about 2 hours NW of Toronto) there is an old railway line that's converted to a biking/hiking trail. There's a cool old station still standing near this route -- it's turned into a museum now (still want to visit it sometime though).

There is another old railway line that is now mostly used by the Caledon Trailway, in Caledon, Ont. (about an hour NW of Toronto). This is another multi-use trail. To the south, it's a trail -- to the north, there is still track and a heritage steam railway operates on it (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.southsimcoerailway.ca">http://www.southsimcoerailway.ca</a><!-- m -->). About 50 metres or so from this trail there are 1-2 rotting, decomposing freight cars. I think one might have been a caboose. Being a hiker, I was once using this trail and walked over to have a look at these old cars, which must have been rotting there since the line closed in the late-1960s.

Interesting topic!

Here's a sight that you see from the Verde Canyon RR as it leaves Clarkdale in Arizona. There's the abandon roundhouse and power station
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The ghost mining town of Chandler, Colorado - not far from Rockvale and invisible from the road. The coal mines were off to the right behind the hill - the road itself follows the old rail grade into Rockvale to the loading tipple.

Interesting thread and photos I'm submitting a shot of the Emerald St. pedestrian bridge in Hamilton Ontario.I'm not sure when this bridge was built but I can remember standing on this bridge as a a young boy in the mid-fifties and watching steam locomotives approach and being engulfed in the smoke and steam as they would pass below.This scene is looking west---the nearest street crossing is Victoria Ave where I grew up.

Here's remnants of the Great Western's bridge over Twenty Mile Creek at Jordan Station, Ontario. The line was taken over by the Grand Trunk, then later became part of the CNR. At some point the track was re-aligned onto the bridge from which this photo was taken.




Here's another out-of-service CNR bridge, this time over the Grand River at Cayuga, Ontario. It was also used by the Wabash, later Norfolk & Western. The rails are gone and the right-of-way is now quite overgrown, but I'm told that some folks use the bridge (ties still in place) as a hiking trail and, in the winter, for snowmobiling.



Wayne

Got to say this has become one of my favorite threads.

[attachment=9295]Here is the Hubber breaker in Ashley PA. This breaker was served by the CNJ and was the most modern coal breaker in the world when it was closed down.

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The old NYC/T&OC bridge over East Mansfield St. Bucyrus,Oh.

Here's a few cars that are remnants of days gone by:
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And what appears to be a loco repair shop, also along the Verde Valley RR:
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The remnants of the once proud "Aguila Azteca", Mexico's premier passenger train....