QUOTE: They could run south past Schneider to Danville area and interchange with the Wabash line. That is the only one I can think of to get Chicago freight to Decatur.
QUOTE: Originally posted by ValleyX Actually, Piqua Yard is the second Triple Crown facility in Fort Wayne. The original Triple Crown Yard when the service started was located at what is known as the New Yard, between Brooklyn Avenue and Nutman, near Hugo. Consisting of only three tracks and limited track space, it was a cramped facility and wasn't going to do as business increased. The railroad wanted to build a new Triple Crown yard in the northwest corner of Hugo but the city and the residents of the area were up in arms. With Conrail's dwindling of their operations in Fort Wayne, space became available in Piqua Yard and NS was able to move the facility there. Short of moving out of the city, I don't know how much expansion they could do within the city.
QUOTE: Originally posted by jabrown1971 Seems like a new, more convenient facility might be in order?
QUOTE: Originally posted by jabrown1971 Semms to me-been a long time though-that from Cleveland NS could use ex-NKP to Bellevue and Lafayette, then switch over to the old Waba***o St Louis. Clear route, with no Chicago, but can't remember about Ft Wayne. I didn't realize that Ft Wayne had become such a bottleneck. Seems like with a little preblocking of cars at Cleveland, NS trains could just sail right on through Ft Wayne with only a crew change. Please help me there, I am not too familiar with NS ops in northern, In.
QUOTE: Originally posted by MP173 I cannot imagine the NS running StLouis trains via Chicago. They have no direct route that I can think of. They use the Illinois Central line to Gibson City, Il, which would be slow and expensive. The NS runs a pretty tight ship, at least over here close to Chicago. Perhaps they figured out a way to get that traffic detoured around Ft. Wayne down to Muncie and Frankfort, at least the Bellevue traffic. ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by MP173 Anti: What happened? Has traffic flows changed? Over here on the Chicago - Ft. Wayne NKP line traffic seems to be up a bit. They are running 2 sections of most of the intermodals. Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by MP173 The NS - Wabash Kansas city line would seem to be a candidate for some serious investment in the coming years...do you agree? If I remember correctly the article in Trains back 10 years ago said it was near capacity, with over 30 trains daily. What are the traffic levels today?
QUOTE: Originally posted by MP173 Mitch: Sounds like a road trip is in order.
QUOTE: Originally posted by MP173 gtirr and Artmark: Merry Christmas to both of you. I never got to see Hamlet Tower unfortunately. I do have lots of fond memories of Hamlet as my wife was from Hamlet. In fact, the boys and I are heading back there for Christmas dinner in a couple of hours. The Kankakee belt ran under US 30. The eliminated the bridge several years ago. I remember back 10-15 years ago when passing over the bridge you could see the ROW...now I cant see it. What about the grade crossing tower in Knox? I got one picture of that years ago. DId either of you see North Judson tower? I was in it once back inthe late 70's before it was torn down. Neat junction, unfortunately at the time, hardly no trains were running thru. Ditto Kouts Tower. I was there once about 1978 (I lived in Valpo, 10 miles away, but was more interested in the mainline traffic at the time, instead of recording history). There was a train on the PRR Panhandle line that was several miles off. At the time, the PRR was probably a 10mph line. I waited and waited and waited...and left. Wish I had a "re-do" on that. Kouts and North Judson would have been interesting places to spend a day back in the late 60's/early 70's with the EL running thru. Oh well. Merry Christmas, ed
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