I live near Grant Avenue and Roosevelt Blvd in Philadelphia. Nearest freight line: the CSX Trenton subdivision (old Conrail/Reading New York Short Line) around Milepost 13. I live about a mile away from it; it crosses Grant Avenue on a large overpass a mile west of my apartment. Nearest passenger line: Amtrak/SEPTA Northeast Corridor Line, about 2.5 to 3 miles to the East on Grant Avenue, right smack at Torresdale Station on SEPTA; I don't know the milepost...former Penn Central/Pennsylvania Northeast Corridor Line, of course. It's incredibly easy to catch a train or just railfan there.
Cimarron Valley Railroad (CVR) splits my pasture in half.
I live about 2 miles from Norfolk Southern's Enola Yards. I have no idea what the MP is.
less then 3000 feet from CSX Mountain Subdivision Milepost BA 232.7 defect detector Oakland MD.
About 2 miles from the UP Altoona Sub (ex C&NW 400 route). Somewhere near MP 17.
Amtrak Northeast Corridor MP 93 on New York-Boston segment. 200 feet from back door.
Lee
150 feet from BNSF Transcon double track main.mile post 407
Gage Oklahoma
Have you noticed how many of the readers here live within a stones throw from rail lines? I read some and just think either how lucky or how the heck do they get any sleep. LOL
Marty, I have lived buy the Transcon for thirty years and I sleep like a baby!
but if Iam gone on a road trip for a day or two I can not get to sleep at the
motel, NO TRAINS Sounds!!
It's funny to watch visitors from the mid west when a freight train goes by. Their used to tornadoes that sound like a freight train.
There are three roads where I live (I know nothing About the mileposts, though). RM 620 east of where I live intersects with the Georgetown RR. West on said road intersects with the Austin Western/Capital Metro Line. Both connect to the Union Pacific (Former Missouri Pacific), which parallels McNeil Road to the south.
Aaron
Aaron
The joint line of the UP (D&RGW) and BNSF (ATSF) running from Denver to Pueblo Colorado is about 2 miles east. The former Colorado & Southern (Denver South Park & Pacific) Narrow Gauge Line ran about a mile east of here south to Platte Canyon then west to Gunnison & Leadville Colorado. Colorado "Joint Line" is somewhat ironic 
The Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railroad. About 1 mile. The Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad and the CSX about 3 miles. All this in North Carolina. Charlie
About 1000 yards from the D&H main street crossing here in Delanson NY.
Al
- 2 miles from NJ Transit's Morristown Line
- ~3500 ft from Morristown & Erie RR's Dover & Rockaway Branch ( a very small
branch of a very small short line, that serves the building supplies place near
my house)
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Originally Posted by EBT Jim:
- 2 miles from NJ Transit's Morristown Line
- ~3500 ft from Morristown & Erie RR's Dover & Rockaway Branch ( a very small
branch of a very small short line, that serves the building supplies place near
my house)
awesome pics. Thanks for posting
Our house is about 2 miles from our downtown station, on the original CB&Q triple track main line from Chicago to Aurora (now BNSF). Our Depot is mile post 15.4, from Chicago Union Station.
I'm about 3/4 of a mile from my former mainline at MP H233 on the former Shenandoah Div.
We are about one mile from milepost 18 of the Georgia Northeastern Railroad.
Now, if the question was what is my favorite milepost; it would be 175 on NS' Pittsburgh Line in central PA.
Curt
Now, if the question was what is my favorite milepost; it would be 175 on NS' Pittsburgh Line in central PA.
Curt
Hey!!! Rock Island, don't the BNSF trains have to slow down to 55 MPH when they come by your home?
Is track speed still around 70 MPH plus???
What is the daily train count, still around 70 trains a day????
.8 of a mile from Milwaukee Road MP 32 M&P line, now Canadian Pacific. 1 mile from Chicago & NorthWestern MP 138, CNW Mendota Yard, now Wisconsin & Southern.
Hello Keith, Track speed through town is 70mph, our town population is
less than 500. Daily train count is around 80. There is talk about the
Southwest Chief coming through by Jan 1 2016. Not yet sure, I do know
that Kansas, Colo, and New Mexico have to come up with 5 million a piece
for the next 10 years! Good to here from you and hope your family is well.
About 3/4 mile east of CSX (ex ACL) mainline, milepost A801.0
Here, they built so many new homes within 100 yards of the track, then the idiots complained about the noise. Millions of dollars were spent on tall sound walls. Funny thing is, the sound goes over the walls and is a big help to those closest to the track, but the sound now drops down on the homes a little further from the tracks that were never bothered before. Ya just can't fix stupid.
Steve
Originally Posted by MartyLJ:
Have you noticed how many of the readers here live within a stones throw from rail lines? I read some and just think either how lucky or how the heck do they get any sleep. LOL
To the south there's the CP main line 5 blocks south and in view from my living room and to the north is the double track CN main line, but its in a cut. At my Mother's long term care home the CP main line is just across the street right outside the window. Lots of trains!
I live approximately 1/4 mile south of Genesee & Wyoming's Puget Sound & Pacific just east of Shelton, WA and within about a mile and half of the Simpson Timber Co. Railroad Oakland Bay log dump spur which may be MP 0. Not sure what the milepost is on the PSAP.
Larry
The main line of the New England Central is around 2 miles from here. We're a few miles north-northwest of the Essex Junction station.
Jon 
I'm approx. 8 miles west of the A&M's mainline. That would put me at or near milepost 357 on the old Frisco/BN tracks south of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Rock Island, Good to hear from you. Hope all is well at your neck of the woods.
Thanks Keith, all is well here. A little bit hot, but it is August
Went to Alva today and saw trains bumper to bumper all the way
up there and back! Lots of action at Avard too!! Take care, and hope
to see you soon!
Originally Posted by Silver Lake:
Originally Posted by Arthur P. Bloom:
Silver Lake: Here is a link that will help you figure out your nearest "mile post" even though, on the subway, they're not called that. The link will tell you all you ever needed to know (and then some.) It makes my head hurt to read it all, but it's the definitive reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...City_Subway_chaining
Thanks Arthur.
My closest chaining number is A 1246+52. The Station I use daily run from A 1233+65 to A 1239+65
I am about half a block west of the line.
Nearest active is the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern in Gilberton.
Nearest abandoned is the Reading Catawissa Branch, about 150 yards from the house.
Smack dab in the middle..Four miles to the UP Mainline...Four miles to the BNSF Mainline. One-third mile (more or less) to the, M & E T Co. A shortline that serves both Mainlines and all industries in between.
~ 1 mile from Bessemer & Lake Erie (CN) through Russellton, PA.
Can hear engines northbound, and dynamic brake-fans southbound.
Track Detector - MP 12.8, ~ 2 miles north at Culmerville.
The Ocean Ave grade crossing of the LIRR in Ronkonkoma.
I'm about 1.5 miles from the former Northern Central mainline between Baltimore and Harrisburg. Now used by Baltimore Light Rail, as far as Warren Road in Cockeysville, MD. In this photo, the light rail train is curving on its new line through Hunt Valley, and the NS diesel is parked on a stub that is actually the original main line. Haven't seen freight operations in a number of years, though.
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North Shore Railroad - Back Yard, Berwick, PA
CP Sunbury Line across the River in Nescopeck, PA
The North Shore has an engine house in Northumberland PA. I eat lunch at the Front Street Station whenever I'm down at Weaver. A lot of rail activity out in the yard.
Don
Don
BNSF Railway, Kansas Division, Hereford Subdivision, MP 555 (about six miles from our house, but close enough to hear whistles). That's West Amarillo, and is 149 miles west of Gage, Oklahoma, where Rock Island lives.
I live in monroe nc where the old sal rr now csx.The old sal railyard in monroe split in to.One goes on into sc the other goes on to charlotte nc.This is the tracks I,m closset to.I am about a mile and a half from the tracks.And sometimes I can feel the vibrations from a coal trains.
About two miles from the CSX major rail yard in Erwin TN. (The Old Clinchfield yard) tracks are about a mile or so from the house.
Larry
