Rail Road

[Tiggntaz]

Does anyone know where you can still see the tracks?

I made a quick map with the bus loops and the old train tracks but most of them are now sidewalks.

Shan, any help? I would love to take the boys and show them when we are back at the fort.

 

[fla4fun]

One place that is pretty obvious is in the new dog park. Although there aren't any tracks to be seen, the elevated ridge they ran on is visible cutting across the park.

 

[becky1960]

I remember a couple of years back while walking on the sidewalk from the 300 Loop to marina seeing the tracks next to the sidewalk, if I remember right they cut across the sidewalk if they would have been still there..

 

[LU2IAB]

If you were to travel down the main road as if you were heading to the marina, keep a lookout to your left. They are near the sidewalk and start on the farther side of the sidewalk from you. It is just a short piece. To be safe start at the 4 way stop near the front. They are somewhere between that and the middle.
I which I could be more help. But is sounds like a fun treasure hunt for the boys.

 

[DaveInTN]

Also, if you walk to the canal behind the dog park, you can see the concrete supports for the bridge that carried the tracks over the canal.

 

[Shan-man]

This older map shows the route of the old right-of-way. As far as I know, there are no rails to be seen anywhere, but there are places to see the ties and gravel bed. The clearest place I know of to see them relatively unchanged is behind the first dozen or so sites in the 700 loop. If you look behind the sites on the left you will see a berm that helped isolate the sites from the train sounds. If there is an empty site to walk through, go over the berm and in the woods there are the remnants of the railroad. If you look around enough you might just find a spike laying nearby!

 

[Tiggntaz]

This older map shows the route of the old right-of-way. As far as I know, there are no rails to be seen anywhere, but there are places to see the ties and gravel bed. The clearest place I know of to see them relatively unchanged is behind the first dozen or so sites in the 700 loop. If you look behind the sites on the left you will see a berm that helped isolate the sites from the train sounds. If there is an empty site to walk through, go over the berm and in the woods there are the remnants of the railroad. If you look around enough you might just find a spike laying nearby!

That map is what I used to draw the green line on mine.

 

[zakerdog]

Here is a picture of Zak & Zoe sitting on the old track by the dog walk in loop 700.

 

[Tri-circle-D]

Matt- You should have asked me when I saw you at the Fort last week! As Shan-man already said, the easiest place to see the old railroad ties is between the 700 and 800 loops. If you were to follow the green line that you drew from the main road (Fort Wilderness Trail), to the area between 700 and 800, you will see the old ties. They are still there, even after the recent work on 700 and 800. I just saw them last week. They look like what is shown in the photo posted above by zakerdog. The rails themselves were taken up a while back, so all you will see is the ties and the gravel that was beneath the ties.

TCD