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Dormant BNSF Line in Lincoln NE to see Traffic Again

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Posted by MarknLisa on Friday, August 28, 2020 10:30 AM

Miss the Mook! 

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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, August 24, 2020 7:23 PM

CShaveRR

MC, do you remember whether this was thee track that passed by the restaurant near where we first met everyone?  I know that was south of Mookie.

I also got a kick out of your giggle-fits in Heaven comment, especially when I read the article in connction with this reopening.  One paragraph in the article read, "Christ isn't the only one worried."

 

Carl: Suspect you were about four miles north by two miles east. 

The line this thing connects to in Lincoln goes on south through Beatrice and on to St. Joseph MO...

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Posted by York1 on Monday, August 24, 2020 7:02 PM

In Lincoln, this crossing where the tracks cross two major streets diagonally will be fun with a long, slow-moving coal train.  There are crossing gates, but I imagine there will have to be some way all the traffic lights turn red when the gates come down.

 

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Posted by CShaveRR on Monday, August 24, 2020 5:35 PM

MC, do you remember whether this was thee track that passed by the restaurant near where we first met everyone?  I know that was south of Mookie.

I also got a kick out of your giggle-fits in Heaven comment, especially when I read the article in connction with this reopening.  One paragraph in the article read, "Christ isn't the only one worried."

Carl

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Posted by mudchicken on Saturday, August 22, 2020 7:43 PM

.... and they missed the obvious - most of that railroad has not been BNSF owned for years. OPPD owns it and has contracted Maintenance out for years.

Division of Ownership is the switch at Pioneers Blvd & Neb Rte 2 (Old State Pen Site)... The newsworkers' site for the botched/linked story is about a mile into the OPPD owned railroad corridor.

Somewhere up there Mookie is having a giggle fit - She and Driver did not live that far from here.

 

 

 

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Dormant BNSF Line in Lincoln NE to see Traffic Again
Posted by MarknLisa on Saturday, August 22, 2020 12:19 PM

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