Yep! This vantage point was used for a lot of Binghamton photography over the decades. Note the JC 214 milepost to the left of the locomotive, an Erie relic counting the miles to Jersey City, NJ. The 3000 is a C-430, former NYC. The caboose to the right is D&H. [05/28/1983]
Not a train. Really! The Boone Scenic Valley RR crew following the cart travelers west. We waited for the trains for a while, nigh an hour, and the train stopped short of the bridge! Heard the whistle and the radio chatter, but it was a half mile walk to get here. Ah well, the evidence of the river having been higher was worth the walk, and it was nice walk.
Interesting vehicle... Looks like a four-man golf cart or stretch-limo go-kart turned into a speeder. I can imagine some scale shop mechanic with an imagination cobbling something together with a golf cart. Maybe even a hi-railer... I love wacky stuff like this on a layout that makes people ask "What the heck is that?!?!" Cool photo!
From 03/12/1990 at Phillips, TN, this was once a mainline bridge on the SOU's Rathole. Upon completion of the line's massive reengineering project in 1963, the bridge found continued employment linking the Brimstone RR with the outside world. The coal-hauling Brimstone eventually closed and the rails were removed.
From 10/04/1981 at Ashley, PA was the remains of the CNJ's yard tower and office, as built in 1956 and 1957 during a modernization program. The roundhouse is seen as well. I have no idea if any of these structures remain, but I kind of doubt it.
Snooped around Ashley PA with Google Earth and saw nothing. A few promising spots, but to no avail. I suspect your doubts are justified.
From May 1983, the Lackawanna's landmark Tunkhannock Viaduct in Nicholson, PA, completed 1915 and owned by NS today.
An old cantilever guards the east end of the long gone siding at Paris, out on the SP Saugus Line...Acton CA
Out along the old Katy Northwest line near Duke, Oklahoma. Has not seen a train in a while. Michael North photo.
There seems to be a blue hopper car parked on the rails beside one of the silos. Must be the end of the active line. Was operated by the Hollis & Eastern, 13 miles long, to serve a wallboard plant in Duke, OK, with connections to AT&SF in Altus, OK. That's a nice little short line to model!
