West End, House Track New Richmond
For a time, the house track was the home base for a local based out of New Richmond. Even last winter a Loram ditching train parked here for the season. Now however it looks like the end has come.
The little house/team/pocket track in New Richmond wasn't all that noteworthy but it was significant to me for all the various equipment that literally parked in my backyard through the almost 10 years I've lived here.
While I've known for a while that Washington Ave, just to the east, was to get upgraded crossing signals with lights and gates I hadn't figured out how they were going to fit them in a tight space. The first clue should have been last month when the good ties were picked out of the house track and stacked off to the side. The next clue should have been a couple weeks back when I watched the weed-sprayer truck hit the main and all the side tracks in town, except this one. Last night a Little Giant crane showed up on the canning plant spur. Today I got home and the rails were gone off the house track.
Few will note the abscence of this little double ended side track along a secondary mainline but it is a pretty radical change in the scene out my back door. The old house track had a nice hook in it and made a nice foreground to a lot of my backyard photos. I'll miss it.
West End, House Track New Richmond
For a time, the house track was the home base for a local based out of New Richmond. Even last winter a Loram ditching train parked here for the season. Now however it looks like the end has come.
The little house/team/pocket track in New Richmond wasn't all that noteworthy but it was significant to me for all the various equipment that literally parked in my backyard through the almost 10 years I've lived here.
While I've known for a while that Washington Ave, just to the east, was to get upgraded crossing signals with lights and gates I hadn't figured out how they were going to fit them in a tight space. The first clue should have been last month when the good ties were picked out of the house track and stacked off to the side. The next clue should have been a couple weeks back when I watched the weed-sprayer truck hit the main and all the side tracks in town, except this one. Last night a Little Giant crane showed up on the canning plant spur. Today I got home and the rails were gone off the house track.
Few will note the abscence of this little double ended side track along a secondary mainline but it is a pretty radical change in the scene out my back door. The old house track had a nice hook in it and made a nice foreground to a lot of my backyard photos. I'll miss it.