There were several stations in Bessemer, Alabama. The best preserved is this one, which is now the city's museum. To the right of the fence, is a very active NS set of tracks, averaging about one freight per hour and two Amtrak passenger trains a day.
I love depots! Looks like there is also a preserved "comfort" station standing in the background! BoxcabE50
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio station in Mobile, AL. When I shot this picture last April, they were just starting a major restoration project, although the outside looks pretty good. I am not sure what they are going to do with the inside. I had heard the possibility of a city museum, but also heard it would be offices.
http://groups.msn.com/TheGRRModelRR/photoalbum1.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=7 Here is an old station about an hour from my house. I got a good old and new shot of two stations in my hometown. I just have to find them and post.
In Arkansas there are some really small stations. Here is the D.K.&S. Station at Searcy, Arkansas, that I worked out of. It still stands, but is now a part of the car training facility of the UP (I think).
Watash- Am curious- Do you have a any historical background on the Doniphan, Kensett & Searcy? Until seeing this photo, all that I'd ever heard was the RR name. BoxcabE50
I am bringing this thread to the top of the list to assist in answering a question in the Inspection Pit. In doing so, I noticed a couple of those infamous red "X" images. If the pictures are still available can the owners please fix the links? [ 16. June 2003, 12:24: Message edited by: Peirce ]
I can understand that problem. I am an ex-photopoint member, too. I was very lucky to have ordered a back-up CD just two weeks before they closed down.
Johnny Trains sent this to me for posting. Hoboken Terminal. This photo was taken June 15, 2003. I especially like the capture of the railroad name at the top of the facade--LAKAWANNA R.R. [ 21. June 2003, 13:44: Message edited by: Peirce ]
Hey Peirce, that station in Gaylordsville, Ct. reminds me of something my wife and I saw many years ago. We had rented a motel room for a couple of nights up in Hancock, NY. during the fall foliage season. It was a hunter's motel with maybe 9 rooms altogether. We went out exploring, and saw a sign for a place called Lordsville. We made the right turn heading that way. Our narrow road turned into a dirt road through absolute wilderness! After driving several scary miles, the first thing we saw was a big white building on our right side. Up in one of the windows was a Christmas tree, and a female mannequin all dressed up. It was strange! We had come upon an almost identical railroad hotel just like the one you posted! It was just feet away from an (active??) railroad track! This was deep in the forest!!!! On the porch was a mix of a dozen people or so, sitting in rocking chairs! This was not quaint! It was a scene right out of Deliverance, including the rushing stream right at the front of the hotel! Those people were watching us! It was REALLY secluded there!!!! This hotel had seen better days too!!!!!!!! We turned around and flew back across that dirt road and didn't stop until we got back to our motel! The hair on the back of my neck was standing up for hours! That night, maybe around 3 in the morning, our room began to shake like there was an earthquake!!!!!! It was totally freaked out!!!!!!!! There was tremendous noise!!!!!! We couldn't hear each other yelling what the hell is that! It took a few groggy seconds to realize a freight train was going by!!!!!!!!!! And in the morning I found that the tracks weren't much more than 100 feet below our room!!!!!! We figured that was the last time we would stay in Hancock!!!!!!!!
Interesting experience, and strange. I wonder what we would have done today. We probably would have tried to get some pictures. That thought conjurs up the image of getting the film back and there is the building but no people.
Thanks Pierce. Haven't seen whjat I'm looking for yet, but I'm still looking. Seems like the dreded red X took some lives again! ...Mike
I've thought about that place for years and really want to go back there sometime. It did look haunted until I saw live faces and then it became DELIVERENCE!
Hey Johnny, the area between Narrowsburg and Deposit, which includes Hancock, is the favorite home of the copperhead snakes. I inspected the area on the EL and they love to lay along the rails and will strike at anything that moves so if you railfan there be careful.
Gil, did you ever hear of an old railroad hotel in Lordsville? It looked (believe me it was a quick look I had!) like the one Peirce posted. Wish I could find out more about it! It was surely a hotel at one time, and it's right next to the tracks. That is a very secluded area there. I don't doubt that snakes are all over the place!
here is my local station, redbank. not my photo, i got it from this site, which has details of all queensland rail stations. http://qroti.com/placeinfo/qld/rail/redbank/
Nice station, Steve! Except for the overhead wiring, it could pass for a station anywhere here in the US. Why I thought it might be on the "New Joisey Transit", or "Lawn-kah Island Railroad".
