Bote's Railfan Page

A Random Collection of Stuff of Interest to Railfans

With an emphasis on the D.C. and Baltimore areas where I grew up and south Florida where I now reside.

Photos

All Aboard Days at the B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. (before the roof caved in)

Caboose photos - for the benefit of Roger Kirkpatrick

Family archives - pre-historic stuff from my father's collection

Folkston, Georgia, U.S.A. - Rail Watch video festival 2003

Tennessee Wildflower Special - railfan excursion over ex-Tennessee Central trackage (now Nashville & Eastern) from Nashville to Cookeville, TN with E8A power; 10 May, 2003

Sounds

Sounds page - Reference to sounds, F.E.C., and CSX sounds

Florida East Coast Railway

F.E.C. Railway Society: the group concerned with everything Florida East Coast; combines Historical, Technical, and Educational efforts into one group. H.O. modelers and oNeTRAK N-scale modelers' project. Membership has already exceeded 200 members! Those of you looking for the FECRHS are really looking for the FECRS, although both domain names point to the one web site now.
F.E.C. #253 Steam Locomotive Association: the group restoring F.E.C. steam engine #253 at Hialeah Yard in Miami, Florida. This steam train will be restored to operational status for actual running, not a museum display. Come join the team and learn about steam!
F.E.C. Fort Lauderdale Train Watching Sites: Descriptions, directions, and maps to good train watching sites in and around Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A.

Train Chasing Guides

National Capital Train Chasing Guide - covering only CSX (and partially at that) with three lousy maps

South Florida Guide - covering CSX and a little F.E.C. action in Broward and Palm Beach counties

Sand Patch maps - DeLorme Street Atlas maps of the Sand Patch area of the CSX Keystone subdivision, Pennsylvania

Waycross, Georgia - Brief description and links to maps of Waycross for train watching possibilities

Wilmington, Delaware — old Pennsy lines enumerated

Amtrak and Passenger Stuff

Amtrak Funding article

Allen Sloan, Newsweek's Wall Street editor, expounds on airlines making all their profits from government bailouts, while Amtrak must grovel for the mere scraps left over.

Tri-Rail

South Florida's commuter railroad.

Miscellaneous Pages Here

CSX dispatcher code table: my page cross-referencing CSX dispatcher codes to areas covered and AAR channel numbers used; check it for accuracy in your area and report back to me, please. The host site where this was intended to be displayed, CSX Timetables, has been taken down due to the legal sabre-rattling by CSX; national security and so forth, dontchaknow. Sheeeeee.
IRLP RailHam Roundtable: Ham radio operators are invited to join the RailHam Roundtable each Sunday night at 21:00 Eastern Time on IRLP reflector 945, channel 4 (that's 9454 on your TouchTone pad).
Links to other railfan sites: my page of links to other sites of interest to railfans
Jump to Bote's Roadgeek Pages: road signs, highway neatness.
Jump to my radio page: two-way radio information; frequency lists.
Jump to my PartialCOX page: Private collection: JCC Archives, personal tour guides.
Restricted: Private collection.

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