Abandoned the year I was born.

Neat. Any plans to reactive it, or at the very least, Rail-Trail it?

There's a really cool old Monon line between Hammond and St John, Indiana, which was abandoned-in-place in the 1980s sometime. The track, and even the signals and crossing gates are still there, in most places. The only thing missing now are the grade crossings where roads have been re-paved.

There are plans, CALTRANS wants to reactivate it. Money is the current factor so I think it's a ways off.

"Dumbarton Rail
Caltrain has been chosen to provide commuter rail service on a to-be-rebuilt Dumbarton rail corridor across the San Francisco Bay between the Peninsula and Alameda County in the East Bay. This project would add four stations to the Caltrain system: Union City, Fremont-Centerville, Newark, and Menlo Park/East Palo Alto. The two obsolete swing bridges along the corridor would be replaced. Dumbarton Rail was scheduled to start construction in 2009 after a 30-month environmental review and begin service in 2012. SamTrans, one of Caltrain's member agencies, already owns the right-of-way for the Dumbarton Rail Bridge. The bridge has not been used since 1982, when it was still owned by SP. The project's estimated cost has doubled between 2004 and 2006, to US$ 600M, and is currently financially problematic. In January 2009, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission instead applied the funds to the BART Warm Springs Extension project in Fremont, delaying the Dumbarton rail project for many years."

may it rust in peace

It needed some color. :3
http://i54.tinypic.com/2nl4hp4.jpg

Nicely done Adam!

I'd still like to ride these rails with a handcar hehe

You'd think it would be worth someone's time to tear it up and recycle the steel.

Spring loaded frogs. The bain of M.O.W equipment everywhere.

Have you seen the frogless switches and diamonds?

Abandoned the year befor i was born. sad to see things like this but, its kind of nice looking too.

for many early childhood or before, for some of us; "was it really THAT long ago?"

gadz, 82, my dad retired in 81. and the year i worked for the railroad was 72/73.

i see a bunch of sd-40s on the rip track and i'm thinking, "they're really THAT old?". then i remember; the year they were new i was still in high school.

f-units ruled the rails most of my childhood, and even some steam was still around when i started kindergarten.

I see no froggy...

Even a herd pf goats wouldn't want to eat that much rust..



I know..
I really kill me don't I?

I have many such side tracks, as stories that began and from lack of foundation were lost in the growth of other new lines of thought. Still a neat photo of something most people never see as artistic.