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Got to ride 353 and 354 this past week to Chicago for business and made a few notes that thought a few might be interested in.

-Contractors Steel in Canton is shipping/receiving. Spotted a bulkhead flat and a scrap gon on their spur.
-Worthington Steel in Canton (Haggerty) didn't have any cars, but did notice they expanded their in plant yard to now 3 tracks and a yellow trackmobile
-Main #2 ballast extends now to just West of the Station at Ann Arbor.
-CSX/CR Transfer Cab 18xxx that was at Plymouth forever, looks to be hanging out now in Wayne along the back of the yard.
-New CSX NB signals are activated at Glenwood Road.

>> -Main #2 ballast extends now to just West of the Station at Ann Arbor.

Really?! the Michigan Line is going back to two main tracks all the way through A.A. like during the NYC-PC-early CR days? I thought they were going to stop the double-track in Ypsi?

This is really cool if true.

Worthington Canton holds 8 cars inside its building. They use Canton as a distribution center for other MI locations as well as its own production.

dmitzel wrote:>> -Main #2 ballast extends now to just West of the Station at Ann Arbor.

Really?! the Michigan Line is going back to two main tracks all the way through A.A. like during the NYC-PC-early CR days? I thought they were going to stop the double-track in Ypsi?

This is really cool if true.

Main #2 is the existing main from Ypsi all the way to Porter, with a few exceptions.

There are no imminent plans to reinstall main 1 to Ann Arbor yet. That is a funding issue, and won't happen until commuter service starts, god knows when...

The recently relocated crossing protection at Forest St in Ypsi looks much too close to the single track to reinstall main tk 2.