Amherst Junction 2008

Pretty good picture for a stitch of two together. Rare to get this on a windy day from a panoramic kite camera picture.
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I forgot to label the four-lane US hiway 10 on the horizon,
under the word West.

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GBW r-o-w is Tomorrow River Trail that runs all the way to Plover,
and includes a horse trail in grass alongside the limestone.

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DEPOT label refers to location of two-story depot.

Some foundations were visible,
somewhere east of this cross over.

I had a few rail fans drive through Amherst Junction
and asked where's the crossing,
while parked on the street right over it.

My crude map from 2004, not to scale, no details

. . . . Looking east at the crossing. SOO Line tracks often in shadows in the afternoon in the cut.

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signal box for 'new' track up the hill that connects mainline with existing GBW track to fertilizer buildings.

mast rusted and fell over.

West of Tomorrow River Trail parking.

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poor panoramic stitch looking east.

farm co-operative fertilizer buidlings on the left. .

. . . . larger view, scroll right and back left.

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In the middle of the picture, somewhere east of run-around siding beyond trees, the Tomorrow River Trail starts east again. I don't know the exact route to get past the rails between the two sections of trail. Notice, no trains, this is the quiet time in the afternoon. And there is a maintainer working a few miles west of here.

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link to my 2004 page about Amherst Jct., Amherst Junction

Link to other peoples' RailPictures showing Amherst Jct.

IC loco and fertilizer hoppers, 2008

1992, GBW red loco's on bridge

WC train east of underpass

my picture of WC approaching in the cut from the west viewed 1798 times as of Nov 2008.

and the best view I have seen of the underpass taken from a train