User talk:68.1.48.247

May 2023

Hello, I'm Trainsandotherthings. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Street running train, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 02:15, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

If you go to 30.090990450511065, -94.10428647249435 on Google Earth, you can see an active train on the line.

There are active videos of them running along the lines here and here, and there's pictures here that also refer to Long Ave as Long Street.

Also, if you look at the map of Beaumont from the City of Beaumont, Texas government, you can see in section 000010 that there is a section of street-running railway labeled "Southern Pacific Railway" that lines up with the location on Google Maps. The Illustrated Map A there is a government source, and the date at the bottom places it being released in or after (using data from) 2020. I'm not sure how much more official of a source you want than a government map showing its location, coordinates of the exact location of the line, two videos of the line, and multiple photos of the line. Furthermore, here's another page from Texas Railroad History that shows, if you scroll to the bottom of the page, it states the following:

"ATSF (Santa Fe) was “allowed” to keep the Long Ave. connection to the Port of Beaumont holding yard which, I think was part of this [grade separation] project. This is also the time a crossing from the holding yard was installed crossing the KCS main track just east of Main St. where the double track transitioned into single track. This connection was called “The High Line” as opposed to the “Low Line” which crossed the KCS under the Neches River Bridge connecting the dock and warehouses. Previously port deliveries were made via trackage in South Beaumont. A much older “head” than I will need to explain those operations. This new operation gave the KCS, MP and SP access to the new Port Holding yard via the north or west main with a power switch turnout at Main St. On rare occasions ATSF would derail and be blocked from the Long Ave. connection. We would run them back to the ATSF connection via our trackage. We had tacit permission to do this immediately without calling a pilot engineer or conductor."

The page says that it was last revised in 2019.

If those sources aren't enough to prove its existence, then I'm not sure what else I can provide for you. There don't tend to be too many government press releases about an obscure piece of rail line. I was just updating the article after seeing a post about it on r/trains, locating the stretch of line, saw it missing from the Wikipedia page, and thought that I might as well add it in there. 68.1.48.247 (talk) 22:08, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

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