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Railfanning in Ohio Part II(0)

September 1, 2010

There is something fascinating with exploring abandoned railroads. Whether it is the history that is within the physical and psychological connections with the rail line, or the communities that it impacted, or the industries that it served, these tracks were partially responsible for the industrialized growth of the United States and helped us win both World War I and World War II. And through consolidations and dismantlements due to the foreclosures, relentless highway industries, population shifts and the loss of our industrial heritage, many legacies of our railroad past remain in tatters.

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Railfanning in Ohio

One of the larger backlogs in the Abandoned collection are my photographs of disused rail lines throughout the Midwest. The Railfanning in Ohio update covers the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, Little Miami Railroad and the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley.

The Flemingsburg and Northern

It’s a rare occasion anymore when I am not stumbling upon an abandoned rail line at least once a week. I was taken in surprise when I stumbled upon the Flemingsburg and Northern not too far from where I grew up and had been oblivious to it’s existence until recently. While tracing out an active [...]

New Abandoned web-site

To the Abandoned readers over the last twelve years, I have completed major updates to the Abandoned web-site that involved relocating all contents to WordPress.


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