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Wow... I'm going to make a copy of this page for future reference...

Hearing conflicting reports on the status of the TLEW/Midwest lease.

As for the Waterville segment, I haven't heard anything about Midwest or NS working to break the lease there, and as far as I know, Midwest is still in business.

Having trouble getting a crew at Lima as of 5 PM.

A CSX Willard yard ex rail employee told me the Millertown Crossover is down by the Willard Locomotive shop somewhere. It is the hand throw crossover between #2 (I think that is #2 right there) and the yard right there by that old building foundation. Pratice Safe CSX Yes, it is the crossover just ...

Southern SD35s were SHF. IIRC the SD24s were too.

Or it was just run through stuff which is totally normal. I saw a ton of UP power at Chesterton last Friday...if UP needs power maybe they should ask NS!! Probably paying off horsepower hours. I think both western class 1s owe NS (and probably CSX) a lot of horsepower-hours for this winter. ..and h...

I have been wondering about this topic for a while. What is the cab set up for locomotives with dual control stands? Are there two sets of controls or is it some other configuration? As I would imagine it there would have to be, as the name implies, two control stands on opposite sides of the cab. ...

Showing 2 CSX units. I should get it Lima-Toledo.

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B&O Toledo Sub had the high voltage lines carried on white ceramic insulators. The former C&O Columbus Sub carried the high voltage on black insulators. Not sure of the composition. They were both consistently on the bottom crossarm, farthest from the track.

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Because it irritates people like you, that get tired of reading about it but continue to anyway.

All the cars except 1 or 2 were destined to points classified by Stanley. We parked it in Walbridge next to the Q544 that ran 2 days ago.

railohio wrote:Meanwhile, the first post in this thread now has no content.

GR8 content! Keep it cumin!

Does the museum own the roadbed up to Henry Wood County Line Rd? No. End of track was MP 25, about 600 ft west of Saylor/Pratt Ln. A few sections of rail were pulled out for use elsewhere back in the late 80s, and the neighbors decided to "reclaim" the land since it was not being used for a railroa...

A lot of work and a lot more money needed to really capitalize on the new acquisition though.

I think you guys are a little too far north...

[quote="CG Tower"]At one time Tontogany was only supposed to be used for "head light meets" only. Is that still the case?

CG

I don't think so, because I've come down there several times recently and not seen any headlights for a while.