TALK ABOUT A ROAD HOG

[LadySunshine]

:D :D :D :D :D ROAD HOG SUPREME:

ROAD HOG (http://www.railroad.net/forums/photo/msg0123084155405.jpg)

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[Johnny Trains]

Oh my goodness!!!!!!
Barbara you found one of my favorite railroads! the SUSIE-Q!
Where oh where oh where was that picture taken???????????????????
Man, you always find something to EXCITE a dirty old railfan! LOL!
Could that be Utica?
WOW!
I watch the Susie-Q over in Little Ferry, NJ every now and then!

[Telegrapher]

I wouldn't want to meet that monster on a city street.

[LadySunshine]

Johnny I just posted it I don't know where it is from. Glad you loved this treat glad to do it for you dear. smile.gif smile.gif

[rush2ny]

I believe that you are correct Johnny, that being Utica. I also believe that Susie-Q stopped the street running late last year and ended it with a ceremonius picture taking.

Russ

[cthippo]

I'll have to dig around for it, but somewhere I have a pic of Front St. in Salem Oregon where not one but TWO railroads ran down the street! Bothe the SP and Oregon Electric / Spokane, Portland and Seattle / Burlington Northern (same tracks, different eras) ran down the street. Both lines were originally interurbans, but hung on as industrial trackage well into the 80s. I've read harrowing accounts by track foremen who hi-railed the line of dealing with drivers who assumed that the hi-rail truck was a car and could be driven like one!

[Johnny Trains]

If my daughter evers gets my photos scanned onto a disk for me, I hope to have them posted on TB. It's a couple of shots of the NY Cross Harbor Railroad running down the streets of Brooklyn, with two men on front waving/shooing cars and trucks away!
This RR makes VERY sharp turns onto side streets, not just running down the middle of the Ave!
And the tracks are embeded in cobbble stones! They must be 100 years old!
Street running is so cool!
Guess it just doesn't happen all that much anymore so we have to enjoy it while we can!

[Hytec]

The latest issue of Trains magazine has an article on the NY Central High Line with two photos of street running. The first is a Tenth Avenue downtown scene before the High Line was built showing total confusion with trains, trucks, and horses. The second shows a triple-power loco being led down the street by a cowboy on horseback. :eek:

[ 16 February 2002, 14:37: Message edited by: Hank Coolidge ]

[Peirce]

That picture was taken by and posted to railroad.net by someone who only identifies himself as "Pete." He shot this pix on Schuyler Street in Utica, NY, in 1992.

[Johnny Trains]

WOW! Thanks Hank for the heads up on the High Line article!!!!!
I just passed the magazine store (TWICE!) that carries Trains and if I'd had known I would have gotten it then!!!!! Now it's a third trip out to 72nd and B'way! I can't wait to see it!!!!!! Do you know Rudy signed the kiss of death to it......but......a Federal Court has put a hold on it's demise. I've walked it twice and I doubt that anyone can get up there anymore without someone calling the cops. Rudy, Rudy Rudy. You held us together so well, why did ya have to do that???????????????

Pierce, I only guessed that that shot was in Utica. I know that there's no street running on the Susie around here and Utica is their Northern point. I've seen them in Binghamton too and never saw street running there either. Now, if I could guess the winning Lotto numbers tonight I'd be in Schaffer City!

[Johnny Trains]

There are a lot of TRAINS readers out there I'm sure. I just want to tell everyone that the wonderful article about Manhattan's High Line brought chills to my spine. You see, that's my old stomping grounds!
I pass by there several times a week and love seeing it. I've been up there a couple of times and I sure tell you it's another kinda world up there.
The historic photos are wonderful! That's when NYC was a MECCA for railroads......

Unfortunately, by my early 20's it was all gone. I sure wish I had seen more than I did.

I did retrieve some date nails from the 60th St. Yard before it was torn up. One dates back to 1918. That would be close to 70 years old when I got it.

The small insert map shows the High Line line turning into the smaller Westside Line. Follw the just off the top of the page and that is where I live.

Hank, thank you again and I'm sure it brought back some fond memories to you too!

[Hytec]

Originally posted by Johnny Trains:
Hank, thank you again and I'm sure it brought back some fond memories to you too!Yes John, it sure did. I just wish that I had paid more attention to it when I was a kid, but in the 40's who would have thought that the great Central would be merely a very dim memory within 50 years. :( :( :(