Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: rightofway

Explored! #477 on Friday, October 19, 2007, but no longer in the top 500. Thanks! The Narrow Gauge Trail at West Virginia's Babock State Park, in the New River gorge. The tracks were pulled up decades ago, and the trestles have collapsed, but the ties remain.... The Babcock Coal and Lumber Company's Manns Creek Railway carried coal down to the Chessie at the bottom of the Gorge, and lumber to the mill at Landisburg. This track was the coal line from Clifftop; the lumber mainly travelled on the higher track. Photo taken in September, 1998, with my Nikon N90s.

For nearly seventy years the New York Central Railroad--well, technically the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern--ran trains down this path. The Central pulled up the rails in 1940, but another sixty-five years later their route still shows through the fields. Taken with my Minolta SR-T 101 from beside the warehouse I've shown the past couple weeks.

This pond is behind Waverly Park Apartments in southwest Lansing, Michigan; it's at the center of this aerial photo . There's a story. Sometime in 1988 I discovered that Waverly Park (my home at the time) has a diagonal boundary because the property line was originally defined by the Lansing/Jonesville branch of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, a line which was laid in 1869. Although the right-of-way was abandoned in 1940, the trace of that line still shows on the land; for instance, the right-of-way straightened the far edge of this pond. I rather like to imagine a New York Central 0-6-0 puffing by with a short passenger train in tow; it should be whistling for the crossing at what was then called Packard.... This photo dates from 1988 or 1989. The camera was a point-n-shoot 110. Not bad for a cheap camera.... This track has traces for 60 miles. I imagine I'll show you more of them as I stumble across my photographs.