amtrakwolverine
Engineer
It is silver springs. Your turn to post.
Name That Station!
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Notelvis
Conductor
I confess insider information on Silver Spring....... twenty years ago I was a student at the University of Maryland and drove a bus for the University Shuttle System. One of my routes passed the Silver Spring station en route to the Silver Springs Metro Station. Saw this building 8 times a day, three days a week for a year.
OK - Here we go with another one - THIS is an active Amtrak Station. Can anyone name it?
OK - Here we go with another one - THIS is an active Amtrak Station. Can anyone name it?
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Ocala Mike
Lead Service Attendant
Colonial style architecture, so I'll guess Williamsburg, VA.
I think that is Maysville, KY. It sits on the wrong side of the flood wall.
Notelvis
Conductor
Ocala Mike, that's not a bad guess and while it's not Williamsburg, this station, like Williamsburg was originally erected by the C&O.
Congratulations MrFSS, it is your serve because you are correct - the station here is Maysville, KY. I thought that a Kentuckian with a sharp eye might notice the flood wall and get it right away. I'm kind of glad that I don't need to drop any Rosemary Clooney hints now. The focus isn't clear enough to tell but it looks like the van parked in front of the station might have some sort of blue, magnetic Kentucky Wildcats logo on it as well.
I'll go a little more obscure if I have a chance to post another station photo down the road.
Congratulations MrFSS, it is your serve because you are correct - the station here is Maysville, KY. I thought that a Kentuckian with a sharp eye might notice the flood wall and get it right away. I'm kind of glad that I don't need to drop any Rosemary Clooney hints now. The focus isn't clear enough to tell but it looks like the van parked in front of the station might have some sort of blue, magnetic Kentucky Wildcats logo on it as well.
I'll go a little more obscure if I have a chance to post another station photo down the road.
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Ocala Mike
Lead Service Attendant
Hope the guy wasn't a football fan; they were the doormats of the SEC East (0-8) this season.
Ryan
Court Jester
It's Silver Spring, not Silver Springs.
Easy one for you to guess.
Notelvis
Conductor
Yeah - I think I've got this one but in fairness it's someone else's turn to win.
Ryan
Court Jester
Is this the legendary patch of gravel in Beaumont?
Sorry - not in Texas.
Swadian Hardcore
Engineer
It's Portage, Wisconsin. The train is the EB.
Correct - please post the next one.
Notelvis
Conductor
Well Played Mr. Hardcore. Well Played.
MrFSS - I've had a look at your pictures and really loved the photo of the Monon train coming off the K&I Bridge and heading for the street running in New Albany, IN.
My mother's family lived in Louisville's west end until the mid-1960's when my uncle bought an old farm and moved everyone 'out to the country' near Georgetown, IN. Visits to see the cousins as a child always included trips into the city and a favorite aunt would make sure we drove via the K&I Bridge and stopped by Union Station (Central Station was gone by this time) so that I might see a train. Of course then there are my mother's stories of catching the train back to college at Eastern Kentucky in the 1950's leaving from Central Station and changing to the L&N for Richmond at Winchester but I digress.
I don't suppose we're lucky enough that the old neon 'Bridge to Louisville' sign visible in your photo survived in a museum somewhere are we?
MrFSS - I've had a look at your pictures and really loved the photo of the Monon train coming off the K&I Bridge and heading for the street running in New Albany, IN.
My mother's family lived in Louisville's west end until the mid-1960's when my uncle bought an old farm and moved everyone 'out to the country' near Georgetown, IN. Visits to see the cousins as a child always included trips into the city and a favorite aunt would make sure we drove via the K&I Bridge and stopped by Union Station (Central Station was gone by this time) so that I might see a train. Of course then there are my mother's stories of catching the train back to college at Eastern Kentucky in the 1950's leaving from Central Station and changing to the L&N for Richmond at Winchester but I digress.
I don't suppose we're lucky enough that the old neon 'Bridge to Louisville' sign visible in your photo survived in a museum somewhere are we?
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Swadian - if you are going to guess at these stations, then be prepared to load a new picture when you are correct. If you don't want to post the next one perhaps you should stop guessing at them.
Whomever wants to post the next one may have at it.
I wish I knew about the sign from the bridge. I have to admit I haven't been back over that bridge since I was a teenager in the 50's. But I have a place where I can ask and see if anyone knows. I belong to a very good Indiana Rail forum and someone there may know.
Swadian Hardcore
Engineer
Sorry, I have been busy the last few days.
I'll post a picture up. This is the interior of a current Amtrak station. Pardon the quality...still not great at taking pictures with the camera on my phone.
Aloha
No Idea why but both yesterday and this AM It comes up fine for me.
Nope. First hint:
It serves two trains (one each way) daily. No other transportation stops at the station.
It serves two trains (one each way) daily. No other transportation stops at the station.
Swadian Hardcore
Engineer
I remember mamy station by just passsing through a lot, but for this one I would need to go inside so I don't have any idea! For some reason the guy in the bench seems familiar.....
Notelvis
Conductor
OK - some clues here -
The passenger is wearing a coat and with only one train each way per day. We know that this isn't anywhere in Florida.
Also looks like it's dark outside....... likely that one, if not both, of the trains serving this station call between 6pm and 6am.
This is not a 'new' station...... clearly built before 1960 judging from the window panes. Looks like some 'renovation' was done in the late 60's or very early 70's judging from the paneling.
Happy hunting folks.
The passenger is wearing a coat and with only one train each way per day. We know that this isn't anywhere in Florida.
Also looks like it's dark outside....... likely that one, if not both, of the trains serving this station call between 6pm and 6am.
This is not a 'new' station...... clearly built before 1960 judging from the window panes. Looks like some 'renovation' was done in the late 60's or very early 70's judging from the paneling.
Happy hunting folks.
Notelvis
Conductor
Taking a stab in the dark here -
St. Cloud, MN?
St. Cloud, MN?
