ADC puts out a nice series of county maps for the Washington DC area, but their state maps do not have the
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a GPS is OK to get somewhere, but maps are still better if you get lost! I belong to AAA, which allows you to get Text descriptions only get you so far, especially if you get lost orĭisoriented. My philosophy: Pictures and maps are worth a thousand words, especially for railfanning. If this is a railfan page, every effort has been made to make sure that the information contained on this map and in this railfan guide is correct. I can think of to provide you with at least a few pictures to help you detail your pike. Indexa page has a list of almost everything railroad oriented Please Note: Since the main focus of my two websites is railroad signals, the railfan guides are oriented towards the signal fan being able to locate them.įor those of you into the modeling aspect of our hobby, my My webpages reflect what I find on the topic of the page. Question about Western Maryland insulators: One of these in goodĬondition commands $20 at a train show, cause one I have still has the priceĪ discussion on one of the Yahoo groups in February of 2017, prompted by a The skirt is missing on one side, but very few of the insulators I see at How old is it? Don't know,īut it probably dates back to (maybe) the 1920's-30's-40's? True, The winter months when the brush was dead, and I came across a Pennsy The right-of-way for the former Green Spring Branch here in Baltimore during Insulators in his garage, including a bunch of ceramic insulators from the Canadian National RR.Įvery now and then, you get lucky. Up in Traverse City MI, my 91 year old aunt's boyfriend Bayard has a small collection of I dunno how they paid for a $75 table that way!
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Taken around Leipsic, OH, on the old NKP - March 3, 2005Ī pole next to the ex-NYC depot in Batavia NY Aug2006Ī pole line on the CP in Lancaster NY, just outside BuffaloĪ table full of insulators at the Gaithersburg MD train show. 10/2011Ī couple of shots of pole lines - courtesy of Jim Mihalek from the Minneapolis MN area. I found this one on the old RF&P in Richmond VA under I-195. This one is on the south side of Richmond VA, maybe on the old Seaboard tracks. The yellow arrows point to two sets of flange lubricators.Ī phone box on the old New York Central main line in Depew NY, on the east side of Buffalo. (above) for the interlocking to a siding that starts in the yellow circle, and Where the telephone hut used to be, the blue arrow points at the WB signals In the Bing Maps aerial below, the green circle is Made after taking measurements of the one at Gun Road.
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The CPL's just a few hundred feet west haveīeen replaced by "darth vader" color light signals, around the mid 2000'sīelow are pictures taken by Michael Watnoski on the same trip, and a PDF drawing he Norm now, it appears as tho the old telephone line has been removed, along with Many a year once radios became the standard. Replaced by the small telephone box, which in turn, hasn't seen a telephone for These concrete buildings all over the place at one time. It seems that CSX may have removed this structure. In looking at the birds eye view from Bing Maps, The above shots were taken at the Gaithersburg MD train show on Websites and other additional information sources of interest for the area:Ī dispatchers microphone, in so-so condition, seen at the Gaithersburg MDĪn overall shot of one guys offering, and detail shots below Much of what is presented on this page is going away, just like Pennsy PL andī&O CPL signals, never to be seen again. Railroad, and their associated cousins, insulators, phone boxes and telephone poles. This section covers one aspect of that support network: telephones and telegraphs that were used on the Support, to function properly (or at all :-). Railroads and signals do not operate on their own, they need help, or
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