• Resorts / Nat'l Parks with passenger car sidings

  • General discussion about railroad operations, related facilities, maps, and other resources.
General discussion about railroad operations, related facilities, maps, and other resources.

Moderator: Robert Paniagua

  by CarterB
 
In the past, what hotels/resorts/nat'l parks, etc., had their own passenger car sidings or spurs for scheduled pullman or PV drop offs? Which with air/steam/and/or electric service for parked cars?
I know French Lick (Indiana), And the Greenbrier (WVa) had such. What others?
Any that still exist with 'drop off' sidings?
  by wigwagfan
 
Glacier Park has a siding at West Glacier/Belton that the AOE/GrandLuxe used to tie up at; Whitefish, MT also has a spur just east of the station used for the same (plus BNSF business car trips). BNSF business trains have been known to tie up at Essex as well.

The Santa Fe had its own line to the Grand Canyon, now the Grand Canyon Railroad.
  by Otto Vondrak
 
Amtrak will only pick up and set off cars at places where it maintains terminal facilities (that means having yard crews, switchers, and car knockers present).

-otto-
  by TB Diamond
 
Seems that FDR would have his private car parked at Warm Springs, GA.
  by CarterB
 
Weren't there such facilities at one time at Yellowstone, Sun Valley, Jackson Hole?