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Good news and bad news. I will miss the side of the road, interurban type running today to reach the airport along Bendix Drive and the use of the former Northern Indiana Railway Michigan CIty line alignment into South Bend on Westmoor Street. Nobody will miss the restricted speed running and the t...

So will the current easement off the original south shore main be abandoned or left in place for a potential emergency route into the airport and/or any potential freight development? TBD. Most likely removed, but there's always a chance CSS decides they want it for rail service. The original mainl...

As long as steel and concrete contract and expand at the same rate when heated and cooled there should be no problems. :) True, this definitely helps. But there are still differences between the superstructure and substructure to contend with also, as well as different heating rates for exposed ste...

In pre-computer days, so many pieces of infrastructure were simply over engineered. Bridges, tunnels, viaducts, etc. were simply built bigger and stronger than they ever needed to be. I assume coal tower were similar. Moreso was the lack of knowledge of how the materials interacted and would handle...

Plenty of people have proven that you can have fences, lights, gates, train horns, channelization of pedestrian flow, and any number of additional safeguards - and they'll still get hit, whether in a car or on foot.

There's always a dumber idiot out there.

The Metra cars were available because Metra is still not back to their pre-Covid capacity and likely never will be. Sorta. This plan was in the works even before COVID. Metra ordered too many cars because they expected ridership growth. Instead, they got a slow decline. So even with pre-pandemic ri...

A major problem with many of these towers is that they’re very early examples of steel reinforced concrete. The use of this material was still relatively new and engineers had only limited knowledge on how they would perform. As such, many are actually way overfilled with rebar, and many also lack d...

Yuri should stick to physics. He's obviously another PhD who thinks they know and understand everything because of their diploma. Not the case. The below quotes are all from his blog: Ultimately, most problems I describe below can be traced to one singular very poor design decision at the project's ...

1:29 CT: Presumed R598 by Michigan City.

19:40 CT: P370 by Michigan City, 5 minutes late

Offsetting the signal heads was another common way - in addition to number plates - to denote a multi-head signal as an intermediate, rather than an absolute signal. Note that in the photo you shared, those signals have number plates as well. This was also a common practice on the NYC, among others....

MQT's lease is up for renewal soon. CSX has the option to take the line back over at the end of the lease, or they could negotiate with G&W for an extension. These are well-known facts. What is uncertain and subject to rumor is whether or not CSX will decide to re-acquire or not. It does sound like ...

I don’t believe that either the Pennsy (south) or the Wabash (north) under the CSS has been used in quite some time. I’ve never seen a train on either, and the rails are pretty rusty with the crossing on US 12 looking very disused. The Pennsy appears to have been fully allowed to overgrow north of t...

16:45 CT: Black diamonds east by Michigan City. 1x1 configuration, SD70ACe leading.

07:57 CT: M326 by Ogden Dunes on the NS Chicago Line

Maybe-- a few cops with shotguns?? Not in Chicago. It’s a lawless place. You can tell just by driving around, people pass using bike lanes, turn lanes, go into opposing traffic, blow red lights, blow stop signs, all with impunity. Go try driving on Brainard and 130th Streets in Burnham. I’ve person...

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Sun Oct 06, 2024 12:08 pm

M326-06 out of Barr with 1976 & 868 on the head. Counted 74 cars today.

Edit: Calumet Park

By State Line Interlocking at Hammond, IN at 11:13 CT.

Video by Rob Sved. Only 11 copper/nickel concentrate loads. 11 would have been on the low side in past trains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOYzhHSDGcE YOYzhHSDGcE I haven’t seen any recently on M394/M397 when I catch those trains (which isn’t every day). Those cars head to Montreal for export. ...

And wouldn’t it be more economical just to put a real bumper post in? GLC 392 is now filling in as the bumping post in Farwell Why do they need a bumping post at Lear? Technically the cheapest option "most economical" is whatever mass you have sitting around. Dirt, concrete blocks, etc. In this cas...

Wasn't sure how to route them? Geee, CSX or what? GET OUT A FRIGGEN MAP! LSRC for the Flint to Detroit job may be app pro po....but thats just me. Yard clogged in Rouge. Start calling an extra or two to have them switched out in GRR. Wait...crews? Extra? Nevermind. You know the answer... It isn't c...