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Remember when it was impossible to drive for more than a few hours without waiting for atrain?? Everyone in the car would name the railroads as their cars passed. Can you name any more, besides these?
Atchison Topeka Santa Fe
Baltimore Ohio
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Chesapeake Ohio --- Chessie
Chicago Burlington Quincy
Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Pacific
Chocago Milwaukee Sault Ste Marie -- Soo Line
Chicago Rock Island Pacific -- Rock Island Line
Delaware Lackawanna Western -- Phoebe Snow
Jeorgia Pacific
Great Northern
Illinois Central
Kansas City Southern
Lehigh Valley
Louisville Nashville
Missouri Kansas Texas
Missouri Pacific
New York New Haven Hartford
Norfolk Western
Pennsylvamia
Reading
Rio Grande
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Wabash
Stopping for a train? What a unique concept (sarcasm). Every time I read about a vehicle getting hit by a train I just SMH. Too many in a hurry and go around the arm. I love going to the country and driving parallel to the tracks. Small town pleasure, IMO.
Where I grew up it was Erie-Lackawanna (successor to the DL&W and the Erie) and there were no grade crossings. This was semi-urban Essex County, NJ.
We also had the local Rahway Valley line, the Central of NJ, and the NY Susquehanna & Western -- the Susie Q.
If you've ever played Monopoly here's some trivia for you: The Short Line RR was officially called the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Line and was a joint venture between the Reading and the Pennsy.
My grandparents lived in front of a huge railroad yard (18 tracks + side tracks) and up the street those 18 tracks crossed at grade (no viaduct). As kids we used to play in that rail yard, but I don't remember anyone paying attention to the names on the cars - just the type of car (boxcar, coal car, caboose, etc.)
In those days it was not unusual to see traffic stopped for 20 minutes or more.
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