Your Nearest Rail Line & Milepost

Gladstone Junction.

NJ Transit Lines.

About 7 or so miles away from home.

Hinton West Virginia

3 Blocks from front door Amtrak Station and CSX yard office

Milepost CA 357.7

Closest to me would be NS at the intersection of Huguenot and Robious Roads in Midlothian, Va. As for the NS milepost#, I dunno.

Gilly

Florida East Coast. 1000 ft as the crow flies. milepost 323.8 (railroad crossing ) when I'm home i hear every train that goes by

Closest to me would be the Yadkin Valley RR. The Mount Airy line is about 150 yards from my front door.

http://www.gulfandohio.com/yadkin-valley-railroad

The B/C line of NYC transit is about half a block from my house but the station is three blocks away. I don't know the milepost.

NJ Transit Montclair-Boonton line about 1000 ft from my house.  Can hear all the daily trains. Not sure of the milepost.

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

Falmouth branch line down by the docks approx. 6 miles.

James

Nearest line - Ex Lehigh Valley main is 2-1/2 blocks away.

Nearest milepost - About 25' from my back door.

Mile post 98, Greenport, NY, on the L I R R mainline. It's a mile over water, and another mile up and over the hill where I live on Shelter Island, but I hear them tooting.  The distance is measured from Penn Station, NY.

Florida East Coast for me. I'm about three miles east of the mainline where it crosses Racetrack Road about four miles south of Bayard just south of Jacksonville. I can hear them pulling hard about 11:30 PM each night heading for Miami and points south.

BNSF Mainline, milepost 36, about a 1/2 mile.

Steve

Closest is the Chestnut Ridge Railway, about 1/2 mile away. I have no idea if they even do mile posts, since they don't have much of a main line anymore.

This interchanges with NS about 3 miles from me (other side of town) on the Lehigh Line West (ex. CNJ)

Of course, we have the abandoned parts on the Chestnut Ridge nearby, and the abandoned LNE and LV out near NS.

CSX e/w mainline in Tallahassee about ten miles south, but I drive over it to and from work each day. I saw a UP pulling a handful of cars on it a few months ago. 

BNSF about 4-5 miles from (I think) Craig. Don't know the milepost? Will see if I can find it. Until last year we lived about 6-8 blocks from the BNSF line in old town Lenexa, KS, milepost unknown there also.

Couldn't find the mileposts, but old town Lenexa tracks were formerly Frisco tracks, and the ones we are near now are formerly AT&SF tracks.

I'm 2 miles from CPR mainline here in Calgary. Same distance to CPR Intermodal Yard.

No idea of milepost.

I live even closer to the NS line Gilly@N&W listed.......it is a historic line.....the ROW of the old Richmond & Danville........Jefferson Davis' escape route from Richmond in April 1865. 

Peter

I am about 20 minutes (by car) from my house to the freight yard which included the locomotive shops for the Soo Line which was sold to the Wisconsin Central which was merged into the CN. I don't know of any mile markers for this locale, but it does have a storied past.  

Closest to me is the BNSF Memphis line running out of the ex Frisco Lindenwood yard. The milepost is unknown, but I'm very close to the viaduct crossing Gravois Avenue.

Jeff C

Three roads..

At the Illinois house ( where I am now) it's about a mile to the Wisconsin and Southern line ( former Milwaukee Road Madison bypass) that connects to METRA. and in Antioch proper..equal distance to the former Soo Line to Chicago.

In NC, I am the same distance from the CSX line to Wilmington.

I live two minutes from the Portland & Western in Beaverton, Oregon (west side of Portland).  It's former Southern Pacific.  The house I grew up in, 175 miles south of Chicago, was nestled close to the north-south mainline of the Illinois Central, the Peoria Division of the IC and the east-west NYC (Big Four).  My hometown was a good place to be a railfan in the 60's, but each night here, I can hear the evening P&W freight and the horn at the grade crossings.  I like it :-)

I live about 1/2 mile from the former PRR Ft. Wayne Line in Delphos, OH. MP 274.5.  The long abandoned AC&Y MP 0.5 is about 500 feet from our front door.  The Nickle Plate Clover Leaf Line ran with the AC&Y from the yards on the north end of town to the PRR junction, but I have no idea what the mile post was.

All that is left is the single track remnants of the PRR, now operated by CF&E.  There is also a short branch from the NKP Clover Leaf Line serving some agri-business west of town.

Tom

Amtrak North East Corridor MP 162.3

MP 28 on the old Erie Pascack Valley line (Nanuet, NY).

About a mile West of milepost 32 Indiana Harbor Belt.

CP 61 on the Norfolk Southern Youngstown Line in Struthers, OH.

Joe

You had me looking there for a second. We are missing our MP 9-60 off the PRR Fredrick branch.

What Rail line is that from? CNJ?

Jamie

I didn't think we'd get as manypost to my question. This has bee great.

Before moving here in 95, we live 2 miles north of the CSX Plymouth sup. I use to listen to the scanner and the enginers call out crossings, before the Jacksonville Fl control to over. Could here'm all night. Even CP Rail canisters ruunging through tp Grand Rapids and Chi Town.

Here's the photo I side I'd try to post. the South bound GLC runs when needed and connectes with the Toledo Ann Arbor north of A2 town.

 Hum, my photo wont post Oh Well maybe next time

I have an ex-BNSf branchline a block and a half from my front door.  In fact, I can see it as I am typing this.  I think it officially called Illinois Railnet and it hauls only silica sand from the mines around Ottawa and Streeter, IL to Aurora, IL where it meets the mainline of the BNSF.  I will have to try to find a milepost marker.  Interesting topic.

Art

No, the map is a web grab from ihbrr.com

Nice Dan, my love of trains was quickly developing growing up by the Erie Lackawanna Pascack Valley Line in Hillsdale. (NJ)

Paul

This is about a mile away North East Corridor and the CSX bridge is about a mile further up the river.  Both rail lines cut through the city.  Across the River is Perryville where the Port Road turns on the Wye.  Amtrak, NS and CSX

Santa Fe San Bernardino Yard and San Bernardino Depot -- about 4 miles west. Long-abandoned Redlands Loop -- about 1 mile north.

The nearest RR is about a stone's throw away. Luzerne County operates a short/transfer line between Wilkes-Barre and Ashley, servicing the Hanover Industrial Park, and several, businesses in Wilkes-Barre, including a scrap yard and brewery. The line almost encircles Ashley, as it makes its way from the industrial park just to the south, heading north behind our house, and circling northwest through Goose Island, an area dividing Wilkes-Barre and Hanover Twp. 

I wish I had my camera with me today, as I parallelled a switcher pulling two gondolas of scrap to Wilkes-Barre to be transferred to NS. The NS and Canadian Pacific share trackage in Hanover Twp and Wilkes-Barre. The CP also runs through Mountain Top, sharing trackage with the Reading and Northern. Mountain Top is about 2 miles south as the crow flies. 

Don

CSX Trenton Sub, MP QA 11.24 450 feet from our front door.

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.

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 

- 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)

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.

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

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!

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.

North Shore Railroad - Back Yard, Berwick, PA

CP Sunbury Line across the River in Nescopeck, PA

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

Just about between KCS Pittsburg sub MP 119 and BNSF Afton sub MP 121.

Two miles from the old EJ&E's MP 54 or so.

Less than a Mile from MP22 on the North East Corridor....  between Metroapark and Rahway, NJ train stations.

100 feet west of MP 39 on the Gladstone Branch of the Morris & Essex line. tracks are literally across the street from my home.

I am very close to MP 50.8 from Chicago on the current Illinois Railnet, former BNSF branchline.  They have installed new crossing signals but haven't put the MP markers on them yet.

Art

Number 90, if you are ever in my neck of the woods. I love to have company, to show

my layout off! It is in a 50ft. Rock Island box car! I have done a lot of work to

my layout. But, more I would like to do. Not to many folks around here that likes

trains, With around 80 trains a day though town and I live so close to the tracks,

they think I am crazy Crazy about trains!

Detroit River Tunnel

The Detroit River Tunnel, goes from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario Canada.

So,,,,,,,do you live in the tunnel?

I can usually be found at Norfolk Southern LV Main Line CP 88 Bethlehem Pa Saturday mornings taking pictures.

JohnB

Not sure of the milepost, but I live about a mile away from the Allegheny Valley Railroad. This is in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, PA.  Thanks to the Marcellus Shale gas boom in the area, I hear 4-5 trains a day. I'm pretty lucky to live within a few miles of the Norfolk Southern, CSX, Union RR, and Wheeling& Lake Erie.

Ya beat me too it, my local Railroad, too...live a couple of miles from their main team track/service area, live about a mile from their second one. Always wondered how this line has survived, growing up in the area they always called it 'struggling', but seems to be doing just fine. I also am about a mile and a half from the NJ Transit Morristown line. 

CSX, formerly Conrail, formerly Penn central, formerly the NYC, formerly the Boston and Albany at mile marker 107.86 in Westfield, ma where it used to cross the New Haven canel line.