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Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:34 pm
Watching LOU/ MIA’s super regional and noticed the train rolling behind right field, and it hit me: LSU has a track just beyond RF, and another Super Regional I watched had the same thing. It seems like maybe that is pretty common. Is this a pattern of some sort? Or just accidental?
Other than at Tennessee of course, since their field is basically a little league field. A train track might would be an improvement there.
Other than at Tennessee of course, since their field is basically a little league field. A train track might would be an improvement there.
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Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:34 pm to linewar
A&M famously has the train as well
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:35 pm to linewar
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Other than at Tennessee of course, since their field is basically a little league field. A train track might would be an improvement there.
They have a train track too behind their baseball stadium
I’d imagine a lot of colleges are built near train tracks
This post was edited on 6/8/25 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:35 pm to tylerdurden24
Minute Maid too
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:36 pm to tBrand
SC has cockabooses.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:38 pm to lsufball19
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I’d imagine a lot of colleges are built near train tracks
We used to be a proper college
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:39 pm to linewar
There's a train that runs right next to Baum
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:42 pm to hawgndodge
Cheap land
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:44 pm to linewar
Hope Arkansas runs a train on Tennessee today
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:47 pm to linewar
J.C. Love Field at LaTech has train tracks thru campus and pass right past the right field fence. You can see the track and a trestle that crosses Tech Drive in the pic below.
ETA: Those buildings beyond left field are dorms. During games you'll see people on their balconies watching.. When Tech hosted a regional, the balconies were packed. It's a cool setups.
ETA: Those buildings beyond left field are dorms. During games you'll see people on their balconies watching.. When Tech hosted a regional, the balconies were packed. It's a cool setups.
This post was edited on 6/8/25 at 2:11 pm
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:52 pm to chinese58
There are train tracks right at the main entrance (columns) at Northwestern St.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:58 pm to chinese58
Found a pic, and an article about Tech's railroad tracks.
Pic of Coach Burroughs with his dad.
(Lane) Burroughs love for trains grows in Ruston on lincoln parish journal.com
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February 23, 2022
Throughout the office of Louisiana Tech head baseball coach Lane Burroughs at cozy J.C. Love Field hang photos of him as a boy with his late father, Lavelle “Rube” Burroughs.
Daddy Burroughs was a train man.
Rube, as he became known in reference to an 1800’s train robber named Rube Burrow, worked for Norfolk Southern for almost four decades. Rube’s father – Lane’s grandfather – was also a train man.
“There was a long line of them,” Lane said. “I broke the cycle.”
According to Lane, his father had two great loves outside of his children: baseball and trains.
“It’s ironic that one runs past our field,” Burroughs said as he stared out the window, across the J.C. Love Field outfield and beyond the right field wall where – coincidentally enough – a railroad track runs. “(My dad) had passed away before I got this job. He would eat this up. This would be the greatest thing in the world to him. Baseball and trains at the same time.” ...
Pic of Coach Burroughs with his dad.
(Lane) Burroughs love for trains grows in Ruston on lincoln parish journal.com
Posted on 6/8/25 at 2:12 pm to linewar
Reese Havens' walk off HR to beat UTK at Sarge Frye in the last regular season game at the historic ballpark actually hit the train that regularly passed behind the outfield wall -
many of Justin Smoak's 62 career HRs at USC also hit that same train -
no tracks near Founders Park - just the Congaree River -
This post was edited on 6/8/25 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 6/8/25 at 2:22 pm to linewar
Louisiana Tech
Posted on 6/8/25 at 2:58 pm to linewar
We used to have one at sarge fry. The conductor sometimes would stop and watch the game. Good times
Posted on 6/8/25 at 3:05 pm to GamecockUltimate
Posted on 6/8/25 at 3:06 pm to linewar
Across the street from Baum
Posted on 6/8/25 at 3:15 pm to linewar
LSU’s train is from the lower class folks in Louisiana that works on the railroad. Cough
Posted on 6/8/25 at 3:16 pm to linewar
Good observation. I assume following the old town model of most universities, the tracks were originally on the outer edge of “town” where in later times is also the area where they’d build a baseball field.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 11:27 pm to linewar
Texas State at San Marcos has a train track right outside their stadium too.
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