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Reply to comment by UnfilteredFacts in When do trains pass over the trestle trail? Is there a schedule? I took this on film, and would like to repeat with a train passing. TY! by UnfilteredFacts

A recent reddit thread on the triple crossing calls this line "a seldom used spur," if I have my geography right. The Norfolk Southern line from Burkeville to West Point, VA ? If so, it goes right through the intersection of Robious and Huguenot at ground level. With an automobile, it would be an easy chase eastward to the river. Could also look at Google maps for a traffic backup, because that train must do a number on the roads when it passes through. But I'm not the clueless newbie you should consult, people do this stuff at expert level. The subreddit r/trains would be a good place to ask.

The one and only time I've been to West Point, the big paper plant had a line of trucks carrying recyclable paper and cardboard into the plant. It's the longest straight river in the state, and I think the Navy stores old ships there.

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Reply to comment by UnfilteredFacts in When do trains pass over the trestle trail? Is there a schedule? I took this on film, and would like to repeat with a train passing. TY! by UnfilteredFacts

Trains don't work that way any more. The Interstate Commerce Commission is long gone, and then came "Precision Scheduled Railroading," an Orwellian term for the opposite of scheduling. Online Amtrak has a tracker map, but not the freights.

The common wisdom over at the Ashland railcam site is that CSX is fairly unscheduled, though regular trains have route numbers. (Youtube for Ashland Virtual Railfan, their only camera in Virginia. Occasionally fans have tried to use highway cameras.) The two types of freights are unit trains that carry one thing, and manifest trains that carry many things. You could ask the generally helpful people there about this route, on the Youtube comments. Some of those folks seem to be freight spotters, but they're pretty terse. Mainly Amtrak fans.

The haphazard timing of manifest trains was a big issue in the averted rail strike. Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) leads to every day being an on-call day for workers on the ground, as well as interfering with Amtrak. Railroad profits are good.

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colfer2 t1_j5w1z6s wrote

Reply to comment by TeamMisha in Grand Central Madison goes deep... by mrturdferguson

Maybe the location between 45th and 48th is more annoying than the depth. Street entrances are at 44th, 47th and 48th, escalators at 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th. The wheelchair route is between 46th and 47th from the tunnel under Vanderbilt Avenue. https://new.mta.info/map/24956

That tunnel looks small to handle a 50% increase in LIRR service. Is that what 50% means, that many trains to GCM?

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