Yeah, She's abandoned, and has been so since the early 80s Can you guess what shortline used to have an engine shop here?
Texas Mexican. There is still a caboose there. Wonder if the tracks are pulled up? Looks like it is near a more active area, maybe a railroad.
Nope, this railroad is tied to one of , if not the biggest railroading event in the early 80s . While Mexican nationalization is a good guess, it's not it.
We are in Lawrenceville VA. The Atlantic and Danville Railway had their shops here according to this: http://www.lawrencevilleweb.com/history.htm I spotted the caboose to be a former Wabash Caboose, so I plowed through all those photos on the web I could find, just to find out that some became Ann Arbor Cabooses and other Norfolk and Western. So thanks to http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/ I came to the position of Lawrenceville, and the Caboose is NW 562843.
The merger between Norfolk & Western and Southern in 82, N&W owned the NF&D till the merger when it got merged into the NS System (And eventually that area was abandoned.)
When was the shop are abandoned? Under A&D? Or later (from November 1, 1962 and ahead in time) under NF&D? Need to know for the winners list information.
According to sources the line was abandoned by NS in 2007, but it appears the engine shop was abandoned even earlier.
NF&D was absorbed into the N&W on December 30, 1983. As we don't know what followed, I'll go ahead and list that location as NF&D. It can always be edited if better data surfaces.
I don't if anyone is at all interested, but here's a little historic A&D: http://www.train-orders.com/TOUR/ADR/ADR.html I also have some NF&D, but as yet have not created a page.