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Is the project dead? The improvements to the flow in and out of the north end of Stanley made several years ago (track reconfiguration) pretty much killed the need for the connector at this point and for the likely future. The original proposal drew vociferous public opposition and got indefinitely...

Looks like temporary tracks for an industrial railroad - there are still parts of the world that do that sort of thing (Like the Irish Peat Bog railways). Temporary tracks get quickly slapped down on barely graded ROW's to extract materials and then pulled up and re-layed elsewhere when one area's p...

Wonder how much one of these costs... https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/1999/11/17/99-28610/inspection-and-maintenance-standards-for-steam-locomotives 5. 1472 Service Day Inspection Finally, the 1978 standards required that a steam locomotive boiler be inspected, at a minimum, once each 5 cal...

Well written article:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... roads.html

Many of you have been to several different railroads all over the area and the country over the years, and have posted the results or summaries of what you saw and heard on those ventures. Have any of you ever had photos, comments or videos, that you posted on line, cause angst with the subject you...

Here's a shot of Sunday's Q109 rolling up the Branch on the north side of Findlay:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 22&nseq=21

This new schedule will work pretty well for pictures - now just to catch it with some Belles.

Michael

Thanks for posting this here. Also worth noting there will be trips around Horseshoe curve over Memorial Day weekend. Now just to figure out what I can do...

The running time on Q10913 was very photo-friendly - anyone know what the power was?

Thanks,
Michael

Q109-12 shows profiled in the "magic box" for CSX customers...the 8 hour round trip seems pretty aggressive, but, a good run for the crew if all goes well. In and out at NWOC is scheduled for one hour. CG Tower Looked like some padding in the transit time to/from but the hour turnaround at North Ba...

Y@ wrote:I have more than one source with the CVSR. They don't want the Alco's. They don't like them. They will be gone soon.

Well, if that's the case, it's a real shame.

Plan is to get rid of everything except the GP15's. They also have a Genset, which will stay. source and why? I can guess on the why part, Alcos are expenisve to fix and hard to get parts from, and I don't not believe you Y@, I just want to hear more of the story. Alco's aren't particularly worse t...

BnOEngr wrote:I think you've got some of your CPs mixed up a little bit too.

For starters, 285 and 281 are the CP's (Control Points). There's a set of intermediate signals at 282 but they're not CP's and MP 283 is just that, a milepost not a control point.

I know why the lights went out at the Superdome...

Here's a shot of the special crossing the Maumee today:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 262&nseq=3

Michael

Nice job! Well done.

Michael

There's currently a single Amtrak engine (86) plus 2 PV's sitting in the Toledo Amtrak depot related to this: http://www.schoolchoiceweek.com/train Their next listed event is Today in Cleveland: http://www.schoolchoiceweek.com/whistle_stop_tour_cleveland_oh Though they're going to have to leave Tole...

Interstate unit leading a Detroit bound 414 coke train out of Cleveland just after 3PM 1/25/13 - unless delayed, should get to Toledo by 5:30 ish but these trains often get tied down in town if not needed north right away.

Michael

NS 4148 ran on Q50004 from Lima to Defiance back on 1/5. Worked Defiance for a couple weeks. Got picked up by Q50824 and is sitting up at Toledo currently. And guess who I heard at lunch? "NS 4148 Y125 to RL, over"... :lol: Not getting back to NS real quick when it's over working Rossford. :wink:

alittlevanwerty wrote:trainwatch1 on Flickr photgraphed it turning north at Deshler.

NS High Hood #4148 on the CSX Toledo Subdivision by trainwatch1, on Flickr