Norfolk Southern, Bement to Decatur, Heart of the Former Wabash
$34.9524 hours on 20 miles of double track – the busiest section of track on the former Wabash.
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24 hours on 20 miles of double track – the busiest section of track on the former Wabash.
Watch over 24 hours of action at a “hidden” hot spot at Wellsboro, in Northern Indiana.
Norfolk Southern crosses the double-track Illinois Central’s Chicago to Memphis line, at the famous and busy diamond at Tolono, Illinois.
Lines East to West (St. Louis) and North and South (Cleveland and Chicago) cross here at Alliance. It’s a Conrail Hot Spot.
The Cincinnati area has many places where fans gather to watch and photograph trains. One of the busiest and a local favorite is Hamilton.
For over one hundred years four separate railroads competed for passenger and freight traffic between the New York City metropolitan area and Chicago – the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Erie, and Baltimore and Ohio.
Head to the former Santa Fe, now BNSF, main line between Chicago and Los Angeles known as “The Transcon”. This is that line West of Galesburg.
CSX to St. Louis and Canadian National’s Chicago to Memphis main, once the main line of the Illinois Central, cross at grade at Effingham. See 24 hours of action.
All the action over 24 hours on one of the busiest segments of track on the whole Norfolk Southern system
24 hours at the busy St. Elmo diamond and the Conrail and Union Pacific’s parallel track there.
Ohio’s Attica Junction in 1996. 24 hours where NS and CSX bang the diamond.
In a state full of hot spots, Rochelle, Illinois is one of the busiest and best known. See 24 hours of action in the fall of 1993 at the railfan park here.
This video gives a look at the trains and operations on the mid-section of the Illinois Central in May of 1998.
24 hours at Haley Tower in Terre Haute, Indiana – just three weeks before the Tower is closed forever.
This video shows twenty-four hours of action in October of 2018 on the Canadian National’s historic, former Illinois Central main between Chicago and Leverette, just North of Champaign.
This is the former L&N line between Cincinnati and Louisville. This is a busy mountain railroad where you might not expect it, (Street running too!) and now the “Short Line” is an important North-South Link for CSX. All the trains, the entire train.
The Alaska Railroad bills itself as “the last full-service railroad in North America”. Come up north and see why! Big E chased the ARR in 2016 between Fairbanks and Seward and even to Whittier.
Who doesn’t miss the EJ&E? CN doesn’t. They’ve transformed the former belt line into a traffic power house. We visit the former Western Sub north of Joliet where traffic has quadrupled from what it was before the takeover. See every train over a 24 hour period, the whole train.
The railroad heart of Texas’s Chemical Coast is the two rail lines that run between Houston and Beaumont, a distance of eighty five miles. Here is 24 hours of action from early 2017. Every train, all the train.
More than 24 hours of trains on CSX’s former Conrail/New York Central line between Cleveland and Indianapolis around Union City on the Ohio – Indiana border in October of 2019! Every train, all the train.
Lonely Leipsic. Nothing but a lot of trains and a beautiful old brick tower to keep railfans happy. Very happy. See 24 hours at Leipsic.
Once known as the Crossroads of the B&O, Deshler is even more important to CSX – with 50 trains a day! See an entire day, 24 hours, here. See every train, and very bit of every train. With commentary on each train.
Norfolk Southern Implements Precision Scheduled Railroading on the Former Wabash
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