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An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage. There are many hundreds of these throughout the world.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO) Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ) Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (MILW) Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (RI) Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (CNW) Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad.
Added to NRHP. September 7, 1989. The Cobble Hill Tunnel (also known as the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel) is an abandoned Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, running through the neighborhoods of Downtown Brooklyn and Cobble Hill. When open, it ran for about 2,517 feet (767 m) between Columbia Street ...
Length: 109 miles. Take in the splendor of the Black Hills from the George S. Mickelson Trail, which snakes from Deadwood to Edgemont in southwestern South Dakota. Much of the trail bisects the ...
Montauk Cutoff. The Montauk Cutoff is an abandoned railway in Long Island City, Queens, New York City, that connected the Long Island Rail Road 's Main Line and Lower Montauk Branch . Helicopter view of Long Island City. The overgrown Montauk Cutoff is visible at the bottom left. The Montauk Cutoff is a cutoff approximately one-third of a mile ...
The line, which was used by Conrail from Kimberton to Phoenixville, was abandoned in the 1980s. It is near the 1835 Phoenixville Black Rock Tunnel 40°08′52″N 75°31′07″W / 40.147833°N 75.518497°W / 40.147833; -75.518497 , the third railroad tunnel to be built in the United States
115 feet (35 m) History. Opened. December 24, 1911. Closed. Still extant (railroad tracks removed in 1984) Location. The Paulinskill Viaduct, also known as the Hainesburg Viaduct, is a reinforced concrete railroad bridge that crosses the Paulins Kill in Knowlton Township, New Jersey. [1] When completed in 1910, it was the largest reinforced ...
Liskeard and Caradon Railway - Work on an extension to Launceston, Cornwall was begun in 1884, and remains of the abandoned works are easily traced near Kilmar Tor. Leeds and York Railway, Tadcaster to Copmanthorpe Line - started 1846, abandoned 1849 (part subsequently used as a goods siding to a textile mill).