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6th street's trackage, from Reynolds to Taylor street is still in use. Length, I'd put it at maybe a quarter of a mile. The trackage used to be VERY extensive in that area. As for use... Well, it sees about 4 road freights a day.

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http://youtu.be/SFK0GY2vx_8

Didn't the BN and a few other railroads already try this?

I remember reading somewhere, perhaps in a Trains magazine, that there was a LNG switcher being built at one point, but don't recall what happened to the idea. That would have been in the late 1980's early 1990's when the article ran.

Not knowing your exact location, I can only suppose, but it's possible you live on land once owned by the Orange Belt railroad. http://www.taplines.net/March/obstory1.htm Quote: The railroad was built in a rural agricultural area, that produced traffic only in the late Winter and early Spring. The O...

Prr Didn't always turn the doodlebugs at the end of a run. Case in point, in 1940, a PRR doodlebug, running with the cab in the rear, ran into a freight train killing 43 passengers. http://mreddoodlebug.blogspot.com/ According to the ICC investigation reports, the train was running in reverse becaus...