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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by tomtrain Wasn't the Remington facility a piggyback terminal that Santa Fe originally set up and reached through its association with TP&W? Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall it never really took off and became a poor location once BNSF opened its Joliet Ammunition Depot super site along with the previously opened Willow Springs yard. Cicero and Corwith changes, too? COFC/TOFC connections through Chicago made Remington obsolete? [/quote] Hey, you are probably correct, as my maps indicate the lines to be "TP&W". Don't overlook the mention that the existance of this transload facility was news to me to begin with. I was just driving along, then !BAM!.. "well, lookie here" etc. [:I] Still, it was lit up like a christmas tree, someone obviously forgot to turn out the lights and pull down the shades on their way out the door. The timing could not have been funnier though, as it was on my way home that I decided to stop by a news stand, and get the latest issue of Trains magazine. Which right on page i was Mr Hemphill's "installment xx" in what has become a serial appeal of his to "socialize" the railroads. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy reading his work, but as a reader of every issue these past 3-4 years, it's hard NOT to digest a theme from him having marxian undertones. The concept of the US Taxpayer buying back highway capacity by giving the poor RR's ca***o build new infastructure (since the existing "is at capacity") is one I have to laugh at, seeing the mentioned former Wabash line run by my house in near atrophy. This line used to hum, but no more. Same for the nearby former Nickleplate. Sure, if once the railroad scraps those lines, tears up the tracks, selling it to a recycler, THEN maybe they could argue the need of the taxpayer to lay rails on their poor poor behalf, but why even go there? is my point. It's a nutshell game at best, if you see the "gobble it all up" UP laying the tennessee passto waste, then crying in their beer that they need more rails at my expense. PHOOEY! Look at this Remington facility, as an example. So, as you say, the "function" was consolidated into Chicago? Well, what have we been reading about in Trains mag? That Chicago is a great "bottleneck" to freight flow on the rails? how INFASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS ARE DESPARATELY NEEDED to relieve this "horrible problem threatening the very republic"? Then look at this ghost town facility just a spit and a stones throw from Chicago, tell me where the sense of that line of thinking is? Maybe in terms of jobs eliminated, if you ask the residents of Remington, but (trying to tie this all together) SINCE WHEN has it become a priority of the US tax payer to fund projects for private industry that reduce the number of jobs available to a hungry workforce? That's the way I see it anyway,...excuse me if that view steps on some toes.
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