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Where is that loose band or falling lumber when needed.Darn vendors for the Saturday market need a ticket.

Good share of the Cloverleaf was built on cinders.

What's happening in Chesterton the whole town is blocked?

Where would this inbound be coming from? Cecil quarry?

Summer 2010 You can thank Van Wert County Commissioners for that decision. Their rationale was to take out the track and use it to build the track to the new "mega site" industrial park north of town. Van Wert has hopes of landing the "big one" in terms of industry development, basically the big 50...

I am not a young pup, :D I remember NW rolling thru Ohio City at a respectable 30 ish MPH,also Drove truck for the fellow who started Spencerville and Elgin RR. The first trip west involved digging out tar patch at the crossings. Thankfully these two segments of track have survived. So you worked f...

When did they get a facility at Spencerville? Only thing I knew active there was Flexible Foam since it appears the elevator hasn't been doing anything. Are you talking of the Spencerville elevator or Mercer Landmark in Elgin? The tracks were removed from the place in Spencerville. Mercer Landmark ...

I was thinking the track ended at the fertilizer facility and didn't cross the road.[/quote] The track ended just short of the next road to the west. Only the main is original, all the rest of the track was put in after the Hi-Rail era. They are currently adding a 30 car siding on the East side of t...

Just what they need, more AGENT ORANGE.

Thanks for the GREAT pictures.

AFAIK, nothing on the N Judson end of the line. This is the former C&O of Indiana main line. It runs from N Judson to Makden, IN. Big elevator at Malden and Wellsboro. Maybe anothe small shipper at LaCrossse. Not much else on the line I don't believe. Former PM branch from Wellsboro to Lacrosse pro...

2025 is ten years off Ypsi.

Loaded Eastbound oil train thru Van Wert around 3PM.It had two CP locomotives and 105 cars.


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tommaphet wrote:Papers were filed yesterday (January 22) to open the Peavine from Williamsburg to Seaman. Trains will be coming soon.

Keep working at it and we'll eventually get it all up and running.

Read the Independent they tell what the cargo will be.

Atlas was doing tie replacement at Middle Point today.

How much radio chatter is there? What freqs are they using 160.80?

The diamond is the least of their concerns.. They will make more revenue storing cars on the section west of the former diamond then running cars over the diamond.. Contractor trucks and equipment was parked at Antwerp OH noticed on my way home from Piqua OH.. It's kinda funny that the ROW of the f...

Thank you.

Can't get picture to show. What's the deal with flicker?