Nice detective work, Roli. One of the reasons I model 1962 on my HO layout is that there were still plenty of industrial spurs then, alhtough not as many as 40 years earlier. When I explored rails in the early 60's as a kid I found lots of abandoned sidings even in my smallish home town. There are no signs at all of those now. Cheers from Wisconsin!

That crossing I always pass by whenever I go to my uncles house

Great finds! This reminds me of a small brick alley in Ybor city where a Cuban cigar factory was repurposed into a restaurant, and there is still a segment of cart rails in the bricks. The scientologists own the property now sadly and you can't get near it. But as a kid in the 90s it was my favorite spot

Great history lesson as always keep up the good work thumbs up

Awesome video Roli, when ever you see a curving building, that tells you railroads used to service them.

Keep it up. I love finding these old spur track remnants

The city I live in is like that. There are dozens of tell tale signs where the old rails used to be, it's kinda cool to stand and imagine the trains coming thru and exchanging the full cars and putting empty ones back in❤

So cool seeing you connect all the track pieces to where they used to go. Thanks for sharing its history of it. Crazy how it changed over the years but at least we can see the pieces of the tracks. 😃

Another great video Roly!

Thanks for being there and sharing, always interesting. I'd like to see content like this of other cities as well but still searching. 🏝

You found some interesting rail remnants in this video! Thank you for finding these rails and for uploading the video to your KZfaq channel!

So strange to see bits of track still surviving, and to imagine train running on it.

I always enjoy watching your videos and I love watching your videos also and keep up the good work

Yes us railfans will always have memories of abandoned rails. If a person looks carefully like you did, there is usually some sort of item left behind to bring back time. Might be a rail or a grade left. Thanks again.

Very cool Video. You find a lot of stuff like this in various parts of Tampa too

At 3:53 the white bldg to the right appears to have box car access by looking at the overhead doors and their spacing.

Nice job and enjoyable. Thanks for giving the streets so I could locate your position on Google Maps and follow along. Thanks again.

Fantastic work Railrol! It’s appalling that something like 50 or 60 miles of line are ripped up for every mile of new track laid! Aside from Brightline, you have to go to Brazil to see new rail routes being built! Or Asia or Africa!

Very interesting video Roly! Happy railfanning!

Never good to see abandoned rail,but it was a fascinating series

Much of the freight that would have come to these businesses directly by rail now comes in trailers(or containers drayed on chassis). Even liquids that would have arrived in tank cars are now unloaded at some other site and trucked to their final destination. Or those businesses moved-or closed.

great video and research keep it up!

Wow, that was cool how the old rails were there. I bet the ties are all rotted out underground

Many rail roads abandoned by administration that's so sad.

I bet that old spur were busy back in the day. Nice video bro!

Awesome video!

ChainsawN&W1218, bet that's some old rail alot of history there, went up to Roanoke VA and filmed trains last Tuesday, caught a NS 210 loaded coal train with 2 locomotives on the head end 3 mid helper DPUS and 2 end train DPUS, good train day until We our car got hit by a buck messing it up,luckily We didn't We didn't wreck!👍🛤

Great video! Just subbed 👍

Unfortunately, Chicago is part of the rust belt and manufacturing is less than a quarter of the economy. The presence of railroads is primarily as a hub for freight to change directions and carriers. And while Chicago likes to pretend it's a tourism destination, it's primary economic industry is service. But even that is waning as overseas call centers and the closure of financial trading markets have had an enormous negative impact. In fact, Illinois has a debt of 65 billion dollars and a public employee debt of over 530 billion dollars. That's about $110,000 for every soul stuck in Illinois. There is NO WAY they will ever come up with that shortfall. And when they can no longer make pension payments it'll be the first statewide county by county chapter nine municipal bankruptcy filing in history.

Damn cars stopping on the tracks. C'mon, people!!!

Is so sad the amount of rail that has been abandoned in this country. And it's hypocritical of companies who claim to be green but choose to ship my truck

"She's probably a liar." 🤣 I love this stuff. I watched a video the other day about my city (Toledo), showing the (then) newly built Port of Toledo (late 1950's or so), and it has a lot of interesting rail information, including a map showing all the lines that used to come into Toledo, largely because of our deep-water port. Sadly, it has declined significantly as well over the years. Our once great companies like Libbey Glass and Champion Spark Plugs have either shrunk, or outsourced. Great video. This is true railroad archaeology, probably my favorite part of being a railfan. Thanks, bro! Link to Port of Toledo video - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8B5gNGIxranc6c.html

Hey Roli! Check out this vid that shows that crossing on West 8th with the tracks still in the street in the mid 90’s. Scroll up to the 10:00min mark. I remember those tracks in that area. Also for those of us who grew up in Hialeah, Tico in the background of that vid is a major throw back! Lol! Keep up the good work. I love seeing these ole Hialeah stomping grounds vids. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9p-pLR-3N2rlnk.html

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Could they have moved the gate since abandonment

E wysocki 15238 48 train currently in motel 6 211 beechem drive at lorish Rd crafton pgh pa 15205 nov 14 2022 hi rail road 82 how are you doing after hurricane Nikki ? First of all happy birthday to my sweet dad in heaven ; yip 1962 crossing I was two years old then ; three crossings the one you would definitely need a flag with traffic ; back in blawnox where I come from with people I loved most of them except a few ; yip we had three tracks at one time too ; one went to globe ticket in o hara township then straight up to blaw Ave in blawnox to blawnox steel my father worked there for 43 or 45 years then they went on their way to Verona and Oakmont then one other track went to paper craft warehouse that made Christmas paper then straight on through ; we only had lights though back then a lot of people went through got killed or hurt through their own stupidity 🌚y

De acuerdo con que los grandes países tienen grandes ferrocarriles. Pero Cuba, Puerto Rico y Dominicana son muy pequeños como para tenerlos.