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it was a high and wide movement. SD60 several military tanks, a couple of mpty flats, a mpty snobel car and that ns caboose..its parked at elkhart in today

again the unions have killed another company......they just dont get it..if the union wasnt so greedy maybe there was still a job...sorry for saying whats on my mind...indiana just passed RIGHT TO WORK...so now i can look for a union job and dont have pay dues

it is that time of season again..the cp holiday train is figured in windsor ont. 12/1..through michigan and indiana 12/2 and gurnee ill. 12/3...

oh yeah and i bet the waste from the toilet or wash goes right into the creek!!!!!!

ns is putting in a shoo fly near mp 430 ( capitol ave) in mishawaka, so they can start the new underpass...if esprrfan comes on he can give some better details on track speed and how long the detour will be in place

as of 9 pm 9/29 the ns f units are sitting in full view of the roanoke va. webcam

i see subway cars being transported from new york city to milwaukee for refurb all the time but these are on the tollroad across northern indiana..and the cars are completly covered..

coal survied into GTW days out of cincinnati also, when DT&I would get a coal train off the L&N, DT&I would use 6 4-axle mostly GP40's ,then in GTW days they would use 4 SD40'S, trains never was very much at the most was 2 a week

the railblazers RB-1 and RB-2 ran from the southern in cincinnati, and would vary in size widely, mostly had 2 units from what i remember, the main reason it didn"t last into GTW days was that it had a hard time making money, the same went for this train into GTW days , it would come off CSX and som...

hey tops
was at momence ill. sun 5/22 and caught the texas egale going north, how often does this happen???????

thanks trainjunkie

me and friend was thinking of going there, i wasnt sure how much you can move around to get photo's , i know a east- west line is always a challange..

what kind of moving around room do you have at fostoria. as to shooting angles, and roaming around the diamonds...

what i'm waiting for is the COLOR......blue, green or that purpleish color

west michigan #100 is a ex CB&Q, at least the frame # research i did said so

i hope it's not southeast container, they are a big maker of 20 oz coke plastic bottles, and they do have a rail siding there, always seemed like 4-5 cars everytime i was there to pick up a load

a company has bought the old BRISTOL PIPE plant in bristol, called KIBBE-CHEM, for the sole purpose to warehouse and distribute plastic plellets and some some other bulk non hazmat chemicals, there a plan in place to re-activate the rail siding on site, car count could be quite good, 10-15 a week..

one thing that was'nt mentioned, you receive rights to move to the front of the line , if you have a scanner, that is blarring, an I&O hotbox detector, and you correctly tell the interveiwer, the right milepost...

and railfans wonder why railroaders run in horror when we approach them???

what kind of condition is the roadbed in, basiclly like a 10 mph branch, or has ns spent any money on upgrading before dumping it, and this is piece #2, of the original plan for ns to dump most of the mid and west portions of michigan, to watco..
just a thought

cp eastbound 32t , in the consist was 3 bnsf b40's # 561,562,552...
also old deex unit 010 was seen leaving eastbound 2pm