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Location / Name:
Crestline OH, Crawford County (90% of town, very eastern side in Richland Co)
What's Here:
Diamond
PRR style signals
Data:
GPS Coordinates: as needed
Phone A/C: 419
ZIP: 44827
Access by train/transit:
None
The Scoop:
Crestline is at the junction of two former railroad giants: the Pennsylvania RR, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, aka, the Big Four RR. The Big Four RR is responsible for some of the best known "things" in the industry even today, such as the Amtrak Beech Grove facility in suburban Indianapolis IN, and the Avon yard on the west side of Indy. The CCC&StL officially became part of the New York Central in 1930, and in 1968, both lines became the Penn Central with the Pennsy/NYC/NH merger.
Today, with the break-up of Conrail in 1999, this is Norfolk Southern territory.
Acknowledgements:
Steve Robey
Dan Maners
Geoff Hubbs
Denver Todd
Open Railway Map
Google Maps
Websites and other additional information sources of interest for the area:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland,_Cincinnati,_Chicago_and_St._Louis_Railway
http://www.crestlineprr.com/
https://elevation.maplogs.com/poi/crestline_oh_usa.107977.html
Getting to G
Former PRR Crestline TowerThe
NS DiamondThe
The Crestline RoundhouseThe roundhouse was built in 1918-1920 by the Pennsy, and closed when the Penn Central merger took place in 1968. Due to its deteriorating condition, they finally started taking it down in 2007. Refer to the crestlineprr link above.
The
Note: These are not an official PRR drawings.
WB Signal Bridge - OH 598Installed by the PRR as PL signals, these were probably converted to "tri-Light" signals during the Conrail era.
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Jefferson Township Fire Department
GPS Coordinates: 40.782014, -82.789264
Did U Know?
None for now......
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Disclaimers:
I love trains, and I love signals. I am not an expert. My webpages reflect what I find on the topic of the page. This is something I have fun with while trying to help others.
Please Note: Since the main focus of my two websites is railroad signals, the railfan guides are oriented towards the signal fan being able to locate them. For those of you into the modeling aspect of our hobby, my indexa page has a list of almost everything railroad oriented I can think of to provide you with at least a few pictures to help you detail your pike.
If this is a railfan page, every effort has been made to make sure that the information contained on this map and in this railfan guide is correct. Once in a while, an error may creep in :-)
My philosophy: Pictures and maps are worth a thousand words, especially for railfanning. Text descriptions only get you so far, especially if you get lost or disoriented. Take along good maps.... a GPS is OK to get somewhere, but maps are still better if you get lost! I belong to AAA, which allows you to get local maps for free when you visit the local branches. ADC puts out a nice series of county maps for the Washington DC area, but their state maps do not have the railroads on them. If you can find em, I like the National Geographic map book of the U.S..... good, clear, and concise graphics, and they do a really good job of showing you where tourist type attractions are, although they too lack the railroads. Other notes about specific areas will show up on that page if known.
Aerial shots were taken from either Google or Bing Maps as noted. Screen captures are made with Snagit, a Techsmith product... a great tool if you have never used it!
By the way, floobydust is a term I picked up 30-40 years ago from a National Semiconductor data book, and means miscellaneous and/or other stuff.
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