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9xs wrote:20N Chicago-Detroit had grain cars and stacks today

Those are carrying salt. Loads west empties east

They are almost all now 60MPH. Exceptions are HUTA are still 40 in restricted areas, Key trains are 50 and trains over 18,000 are 50 in addition if you have a 45MPH speed restricted car in you 60 mph freight your still a 45.

What is wrong with just keeping the walking bridge. To knock it down NS is going to spend some big money when in turn they can fix the bridges that need to be repaired and painted in Toledo. Just shows you where the powers of NS have their head. NS heads are at" It's a city bridge. The city could s...

They try to but not all trains go to that "plan" like w/b 343 that only runs the Toledo district. Sometimes if there isn't a rested crew they park w/b in klines yard which then commit them to the district.

If anyone has the chance, when the depot in Wauseon is open for visitors there's quite a few vintage photos of the Delta yard area from when the interurban was in and still active. Among them is a picture of the Wabash crossing both the NYC & the interurban between Wauseon & Delta yard - complete w...

If you go to the west end of the I&O yard you can follow the lead that took it out to the across county rd 10 and F. Looks like they at one time had the option to go east or west out of the I&O. Directly north and parallel to the NS mains is the old right of way for a trolley line that ran out towar...

Check out the furniture row parking lot off airport hwy and I-475

What you seen along the skyway is park manor. The premium trains normally get fueled to avoid stopping in Elkhart, like 24M, 20E, 24N, 20K 26W then the truck goes to 55 and will fuel 206/22K. Once in a great while others if low on fuel will get some too.

good should put another in at 458 too.

DTE is/was NOT happy with the service ( or lack of it !) AND word is that the brains at the NS Dearborn HQ have found an unused track that goes right to the power plant and is currently qualifying crews by walking the ROW ! ( THIS is going to be interesting ! ) Stay tuned..................[/quote] W...

Also heard talk of a Toledo to Buffalo pool? Not sure if thats right.[/quote]

A Buffalo to Toledo pool already exist, they run the 205/205, 26/27r, 22k/23k

justin_gram wrote:On the NS (ex Conrail), yellow over flashing green is an Apprach Limited indication, meaning to approach the next signal at Limited speed, 45 MPH. Red over Flashing green means Limited clear, proceed through this signal at no more than Limited speed, 45 MPH.

40 MPH

Parking off Drouillard, it looks like an extremely wide open gravel path along with wide ballast all the way up to the diamond. How bad do you think it would be to walk on the edge, because CSX is a little too far for my liking.[/quote] That gravel path is for maintenance of way trucks , its not a f...

21E, 24M 22W 21M 21J 20E on the chicago line

They are stored, lot of gons and intermodal stored at Elyria too. Coil cars stored at camp st yard in Sandusky

you mean the area where they keep track and materials for the diamond in SW side, yes if seen you will normally be asked to leave

The bridge is so there are 4 lanes for trucks, a new track will be going in between 5 main and the van site running the length of the van site yet it will be outside along 5 main for car storage

AC60CW wrote:The shoo fly is ver nice also, don't seem to notice any slowing of trains passing through the area.

50 MPH restriction affect vans and amtrak

206 is normally 830 or earlier, 24Z is a pig its normally around 10 at night in Chicago not out of norm to still be in yard there past 2 am but if running ok 9am ish

Air Force Airmen, not USMC fyi