Name That Station!

[ALC Rail Writer]

New Haven?

 

[John Bredin]

Yep, New Haven. I suspected that wouldn't take too long.

 

[ALC Rail Writer]

Yes I recognized it from the inside! I remember those lights.

You guys guessed that other one pretty quickly, I better make sure the next one is tougher... I'm going to look through my archives (over 40,000 shots, mostly junk) and see if I can't find a real hard one.

 

[ALC Rail Writer]

Hm, try this night shot on for size!

 

[Ryan]

Minot.

 

[ALC Rail Writer]

You got it.

 

[Ryan]

I recognized the double streetlights.

Let's see how this one fares...

 

[ALC Rail Writer]

Random, Ottumwa?

 

[Ryan]

Negative.

 

[Shanghai]

Raleigh, NC?

 

[Ryan]

Not Raleigh.

 

[Ryan]

Hint 1: This station is in the AGR Central Zone

 

[Notelvis]

Lawrence, KS.

 

[Ryan]

 

[Notelvis]

Let's push the envelope and try something entirely different next.

Pictured here is the site of a currently active Amtrak station. HOWEVER, the station was still under construction and not yet active when this photo was taken more than 30 years ago.

There are some solid clues visible here and I don't believe that this one is very difficult. If I'm mistaken about that, I'll drop more hints later today.

 

[greatcats]

BWI ?

 

[Ryan]

NCR, taken from the Orange Line (you can see the WMATA third rail at the bottom).

 

[Notelvis]

And it's back to RyanS for the WIN.

He picked up on the most obvious clue - the third rail visible in the bottom of the image. I took this photo of a Washington-bound train from the platform of the Orange Line New Carrollton station while visiting an aunt who lived in DC in about May 1980.

Had I been looking at this photo trying to identify the location I would have first picked up

on the parking lot beyond the train and the contour of that hill beyond the parking lot...... familiar landmarks during my two years of driving the New Carrollton route back and forth between the New Carrollton Metro Station and College Park for the University of Maryland Shuttle when I was in grad school in the early 1990's.

You're turn Ryan.

 

[amtkstn]

BWI

 

[Ryan]

Yeah, I recognized the parking lot as well and said "Is that NCR?!?" Then I noticed the third rail and that confirmed it for me.

Lets see how this guy stands up:

 

[ALC Rail Writer]

Joilet?

 

[Notelvis]

Naperville, IL?

(Just a guess........ I think there are only three tracks at Naperville.)

 

[Ryan]

Neither of those.

 

[Ocala Mike]

Gilman, IL? Gotta be someplace along CN (the old IC signal towers).

 

[Ryan]

Not Gilman.

Since it's been 24 hours, I'll give a hint:

Not on the CN.