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In answer to your first message, I think the one just on the west side of town is a little sharper, but they both are pretty close, so it's hard to tell for sure. sounds like you had a pretty good shot there, I kind'of wondered about westbound, but it always feels like your leaning more eastbound (probably because I'm on the high side eastbound). the reason for that new siding is we don't use the one at Mac for anything except coke hoppers and MofW sometimes. too many crossings there to be much use, and it doesn't have spring switches on it either, so once you leave waldeck the next siding isn't until inman. personally I wi***he new siding was west of galva instead of east, but I guess the county wouldn't let them close a road in the middle so they moved further east. as far as length it is just a little over 2miles long, don't know the exact footage yet 'cause they haven't told us, it should probably be open sometime in the next couple months though. now for your other questions, they keep telling us we are going to get more trains (all stacks so they say), including possibly a couple of Z trains, so I'd say yes eventually we will have some more, plus it's a little slow right now, and they have been consolidating the IIMEP and the IIMLB sometimes. as for an exact number right now, it is really jumping around a lot, some days they are trying to cram through 13-15 each way and some days it's only 7-9 each way, a lot depends on grain business and auto racks. basically everyday wbd you have (some trains don't run on certain days): IIMLB,IIMEP,ICHLB,IG2LB,2IGLB(usually),AKSPX,AKSML,IDULA,MKCTU,MHNEP,various grain trains, and sometimes IDULBX (empty stacks and pigs), IYCLBX (empty stacks and pigs again), when autos are really moving 2AKSML, MKSPX, these are all westbound, then eastbound you have :ILCIM,IEPIM,ILADU,ILBCH,ILBG2,APXKS,AMLKS,MEPHN,MWCHN, and again various grain trains, and some extra autos and 2nd sections of some of the stack sometimes. I may have left some out but this is the basic linup almost every day, interestingly I don't think I've ever seen them move empty stacks eastbound, has to do with the flow from the west coast I guess. anyways hope this answers some of your questions, and yeah maybe we will have to shot some pics together. I'll look for ya there at canton, oh yeah, one other thing, you said you didn't realize it was uphill eastbound, it isn't nearly as steep, just a gradual rise, so if you have some pony's it's not too much of a problem.
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