CSX Spur across Bolling AFB and the NRL, (WA DC)

Boyd Owens · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2004 10:24 pm

85' Milwaukee Road turntable from Marquette, IA

Bob Kutella · **Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2004 5:18 am

> Be very careful. Read the complete
> description. Not only have they slandered
> the good name of our friends at TVRM*, who
> most likely had a very legitimate reason for
> pulling out of the deal

Yes there are several red flags including the 'minor' item of missing couplers!! No Viginia, you do not weld 'em back in and be ready to have it on the rails. And ONLY two doors cut into the sides, new toilets, fixtures, furnishings, etc. And if you scrape up the blacktop paving you can roll it right back onto the IC - I bet they are really waiting for that to happen!

My guess is that it looks like a railcar, but anyone interested in preservation would take a long and hard look before ever making plans to get it back to as it was on the IC, or prior to that. Time to move on, there are plenty of other candidates.

Bob Kutella

68trolley@comcast.net

Greg Ramsey · **Posted:** Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:32 pm

Can anyone tell me the correct name and any other interesting details about the branch (I believe CSX) that comes South from DC and crosses over South Capitol Drive and snakes its way across parts of Bolling Air Force Base and the Naval Research Lab going to something they refer to Blue Field.

I've just done a trackage audit (for bridge cranes) of the NRL and though the Navy does not use or inspect the track, I need to make reference to it in my report.

Thanks in advance.

Greg

Navy Crane and Railroad Trackage Program
greg.ramsey@navy.mil