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GTW wrote:Foamers will have a fit if they burn it down like they did with Tower 1...

AFAIK Tower 1 survives out at the Gilmore Car museum?

They already have Airline in Toledo intermodal, what more do they need?

More likely some place to do the cycle train tests and keep trains off the mains waiting for crews or room at destination. CSX uses Collinwood for the same thing.

Traffic circles are fine for eliminating delays at that intersection, but traffic just backs up somewhere else. Plenty of roundabouts around here, and the major east-west corridor is still a disaster. Traffic flows fine now north south, but all you do is get to US 36 faster and traffic just sit ther...

Only moves going to the NS need PTC engines. Moves staying wholly within the INE don't.

You seem to think ISIS and Al Queda are about the body count. It's about the fear and shock value, body count is secondary. That's why they douse people in gas, and set them on fire, drown them in a age, or load them up in a car and hit it with and RPG with the cameras rolling. The masses aren't tha...

From what I've seen the big key points of infrastructure are monitored by highly sophisticated and sensitive monitoring systems. 7 yrs ago these systems could detect something as small as a loaf of of bread "out of place". I can only imagine they've only become more sensitive. So, with that said, un...

With a full 18 years on earth you're full of that practical life knowledge? With the baggage allowed on the trains I'm surprised they don't at least screen the bags. Maybe not the full Monty on the passengers, but at least x-Ray the bags. AMTRAK goes thru some large population centers, and thru some...

Never stalled a train that had power for the tonnage. Power ratings are a bit conservative anyway. Had a single SD40-2 lug 9300 tons up Bellefountain Hill one night. 2nd engine has a faulty wheel slip sensor and would drop its load over 300 amps. Made the hill though, and we were way over tonnage fo...

You've somehow built up the impression that I'm wholly pro-GDLK, but I'm not. And yeah, blocking the GDLK from MQT is a sound business decision. But is that in the public interest? And are there underlying local things that the Avon Yard master doesn't know? Hmmm Why is it a sound business decision...

CSX 4617 confirmed donated to Clifton Forge. Plan to be announced in Early October on it's restoration. Did some photo research on this unit, didn't know it or anything wore "C&O" on its long hood until 2008! Very neat http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1312361 How it escaped the ...

A classic CSX vs. Saturnalia thread. Just like the old days He's got everything figured out. No way that there could be such a simple solution to it or that an "outsider" could figure out the logical reason it's happening the way it is. CSX being the big ole bad ray rode to little ole Grand Elk. Sa...

1. Everybody in the know is pretty sure a CSX divestment has nothing to do with this "discovery". March is when those rumors hit really hot and heavy. What else happened in March in regards to this? RDD even alluded to this coincidence, or did you read over that? 2. GDLK and MQT do a fair amount of...

Considering how it's not so secret CSX has looked into divesting Grand Rapids you're reading way too much into this. If that were the case for them "blocking" Grand Elk (which they aren't anyway), then Grand Elk would put that in their filing. That would raise eyebrows at the STB and get CSX in some...

It is just about CSX's moodiness about giving them back. Corporations are not moody. They don't have emotions. I disagree with this. Corporations engage in inter-corporate political scruffle all the time. Usually it has some real basis. As does this one. While CSX surely has secure footing to do wh...

Grand Elk screwed up, and royally screwed up. Not sure how any blame lies with CSX. Sounds like situation has been brewing since March. CSX isn't blocking Grand Elk from trackage rights. They're making sure everything is filed the way it should be. Grand Elk can't even keep the filing company straig...

Gee whiz sounds like you guys have it all figured out. There's a lot more going around locally (as it is a local issue) than you'd probably hear in the Avon Yardmaster's office. Just sayin' This is railroading, not rocket science. Doesn't take a pHD candidate to look at the STB filings and put it t...

Where has CSX filed a petition with the STB to block them?

Gee whiz sounds like you guys have it all figured out.

Jesus Christ. 1.) CSX didn't pull the rights. Grand Elk never legally had them. 2.) CSX doesn't approve or deny trackage rights. The STB does. I don't see any filings that CSX has come out saying it is against Grand Elk getting the rights that NS had. Grand Elk just needs to have the legal ducks in ...

CSX didn't pull the rights. Grand Elk never had them. If Grand Elk doesn't have rights, they shouldn't legally be on the track. When INRD bought out the CP operation in southern Indiana they had to apply for the trackage rights that CP had over CSX, UP, and IHB. Rather than exercise most of them, th...