Eastern Railroad Discussion > Second (and LAST, for a while) "where-is-it?"

This is the last one I'll inflict for a while.

Hint: Leased to a shortline by its Class I owner late 1980s. Shortline failed and line was almost torn out. Revived by new shortline circa 1995, now moves a couple of thousand loads a year....but not necessarily by this spot.

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Gotta love that floodwall

Somplace in Connecticut on the Central New England?

Good guess, but much more land-locked.




aehouse Wrote:
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> Somplace in Connecticut on the Central New
> England?

Ontario Southern?

gonut

No....USA.




Gonut1 Wrote:
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> Ontario Southern?

Huntington, West Virginia

Never been there, but guessing Maysville Ky. ex-TTI, based on the description.

I want to say the former Central Vermont (now New England Central Railway) but it didn't really fail. Does meet the shortline owned by Class I (CN), as well as bought in 1995 by new operator, which is why I thought of it.

The flood wall design and height, as a previous poster mentioned, sure looks alot like Huntington or Kenova, WV though I am surprised a short line would be in that close to the CSX along the Ohio River.

You're getting there.........





BulletBob Wrote:
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> along the Ohio
> River.

Think NORTH side of the Ohio.

Former Conrail in Jeffersonville, Ind.

wreckmaster Wrote:
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> Former Conrail in Jeffersonville, Ind.


No, but you're MUCH closer.

Either the CSX in Vincennes along the Wabash river, or maybe the old SOU in New Albany.

Actually looks like the CSX that runs northeast of the diamond at the Wabash bridge. That line used(?) to run to a steel transloader on the outskirts of town.

IU

IU_Tower Wrote:
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> or maybe the old SOU in New Albany.



Old SOU, yes. New Albany, no. Keep going "river west".....

Tell City or Rockport are my other two guesses.

IU

IU_Tower Wrote:
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> Tell City or Rockport are my other two guesses.


Tell City it is! This is the former SR Cannelton Branch.

The location pictured is near the present-day end-of-track, which is through the floodwall and inside the barge transload facility. The transload occupies the longtime site of defunct barge and towboat builder Maxon Marine. It also serves as a makeshift engine facility. The line's former southern terminus was Cannelton, and although the right-of-way is still legally in place, the track is buried at most locations by vegetation and mud.

The bulk of traffic on this branch originates and terminates a couple of miles north of this spot, on the new Waupauca Foundry spur, and is interchanged with NS at Lincoln City. Traffic by the spot pictured is limited to transload material (generally stone, possibly some coal and sand) and engine-light moves to and from the engine storage tracks.

The industrial buildings visible in the top view are some of the few remaining vestiges of the once-vast woodworking and furniture factories for which Tell City was famous.

I can remember following (almost walking) a short train of empty hoppers and ash cars north from the AEP plant in Rockport to Lincoln Jct back in the late 90's. I think the power was in the form of a HOS GP-something.

IU

IU_Tower Wrote:
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> I can remember following (almost walking) a short
> train of empty hoppers and ash cars north from the
> AEP plant in Rockport to Lincoln Jct back in the
> late 90's. I think the power was in the form of a
> HOS GP-something.

HOS (Hoosier Southern, which I forgot to mention in my last posting, is current operator of the Tell City/Cannelton Branch) also briefly leased and operated the Lincoln City-Rockport branch, but when AK Steel built a new fabrication plant at Chrisney NS abruptly canceled the lease and resumed its own operation.

Current HOS power is, I think, three GP7/9s of various lineage, generally rebuilt to GP10/16 specs.

We are in Tell City about once a month for family obligations, but seldom have time to do any railfanning.