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MQT3001 wrote:The board uses BBC code, so in between the YouTube brackets all you need here is the code after "v=" until be not including the first "&"...

Thanks! Not sure why the top video doesn't embed.

I'd read about the Grand Elk Railroad since its 2009 formation and decided it was time to check it out in person. And I'd kill two birds with one stone: the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Red Unit Circus Train would use the GDLK to and from Grand Rapids in mid-September. So that is when I decide...

Cargill is closing their Memphis Tn Grain Elevator and relocating to the other side of the Mississippi River in West Memphis...Their refinery adjacent to the elevator will remain open http://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2014/sep/16/cargill-will-close-memphis-corn-mill/ Here is their current locati...

JoJames wrote:Look for construction to begin soon on a transfer in the northeast quadrant between BNSF and CSX.

I take it this is related to a new crude oil train routing from North Dakota to northeast points?

A new customer is coming to IMRR at Atterbury...Prairie Land FS is taking over a defunct Lincolnland FS Elevator...A spur will utilize 25 car loadouts into the facility http://www.prairielandfs.com/grain/Pages/atterberryproject.aspx Photos of trackwork from Saturday, August 23. http://peoriastation...

Looks like I'm going to have 2-4 hours to kill in Galesburg later this month. Any suggestions for getting the biggest bang for the buck (and not getting arrested :wink: ) while railfanning there? I've never made it to RR Days and I don't know the area. Thanks! The wide parking lanes on either side ...

With all this talk about starting interchange at Smithboro with CSX Can anyone tell me if the line has the capacity to run extra traffic? How many trains does it currently see in 24 hours? What are the crew districts? Does this line have any trackage rights used by foreign railroads or does the BNS...

redside20 wrote:Why are so many businesses fleeing Illinois?

High taxes, burdensome regulations. It seems the state is competing with California and New York for "worst place to do business."

What is the traffic like on the old ATSF east of the junction with the BN in Galesburg like? How many, and when? Also how many west of there? I live five miles from the ATSF, and go trackside to Edelstein, Illinois where I can also keep track of Union Pacific movements on the former C&NW St. Louis ...

First train load of raw ore has been delivered to the plant at Reynolds, IN. Production isn't slated to start until late 2014, to early 2015, but the unloading shed and loops are completed. They're building a stock pile for when production does start. Supposed to be 700 or 800 cars being purpose bu...

Padnos expanding at 719 Burton Street to an abandoned Bus Depot next door on the south side of Grand Rapids http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2014/05/padnos_to_expand_grand_rapids.html#incart_river Is this place rail served? No, but Louis Padnos Iron & Metal has a rail-served lo...

[quote="GP30M4216"]Also, I never knew what exactly was in those tankcars for Abbot Labs, either.quote] When I worked for Pioneer Railcorp (Peoria office) in the early 2000s, Abbott Labs received coconut oil in tank cars. They may have gotten soybean oil as well. Fuel oil must be something they've st...

A Conagra Distribution facility is coming to Frankfort Indiana....any chance of rail access? http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=63884 They had rail access in Lebanon (still do technically) but were unwilling to correct a "safety issue" with their loading doors. Railroad told them ...

darn that's two bridges in less than a year. They had one collapse last summer west of Peoria. err....wait that's not the TP&W anymore is it. Is that Peoria & Western (forget the name)? But they operate the old TP&W line and use(d) F units. Keokuk Junction Railway. Prep work for replacement bridge ...

Suppose to be an announcement about something coming to the old GM Moraine plant on Friday, served by NS Dayton Dist. Per the Columbus Business First it is Fuyao Glass "New hope at GM plant: A sprawling former General Motors plant outside Dayton is about to get a second life thanks to a manufacture...

Yea, thanks. The Trains article is 2 years old so I didn't know if the power situation had changed at all Those "covered wagons' were old then & now they are 2 yrs older didn't know if they were still in operation. The units are still around just now they are labeled Keokuk and Western and the B un...

A plastic automotive supplier in Monticello Indiana is expanding and there appears to be a spur into this place... http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20131203/NEWS/131209977/auto-supplier-invests-11-million-in-indiana-molding-plant This was the former Landis Plastics, which operated from 1978 to 2...

From the Dayton Daily News: http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/dayton-industrial-rail-line-getting-700000-makeove/nbtnp/ The $750,000 will be spent on, "Improvements to the rail line include rebuilding the crossing at Little Richmond Road, new crossing signals, and other repairs and enhancemen...

More on the ex GM plant property in Moraine...rail access mentioned again.. http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/business/former-gm-plant-could-be-site-of-250m-project-up-t/nbfH7/ Who knows where this will go. Good news for Moraine and the Dayton area! This excerpt makes me think "Project Southbound...

Found this sitting at the small yard in Effner. It is headed to Cincy via CSX at Lafayette. Not sure if it is to be scrapped or repaired/painted. It's been bad order for some time. http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/cc354/ClinchValley/Prototype/SD45-2002_zps1fe9440a.jpg Not likely to be scrapped. T...