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Back in Ft Wayne In. for a vacation decided to do a little Railfaning along NS's old Wabash main, out the sw side of town. This is the Detroit-St Louis main. First thing I noticed, was the huge increase in traffic, over just a few years ago. constant flow so it seemed,..9AM-12 Midnight,...VERY LITTLE SLACK.. Hard not to notice the huge number of UP TTX car racks flowing full,.... both ways. And, spying a track crew, after noticing a train crane, a ballast cleaner, a new delivery of welded rail being pushed into a siding (into the old "triple crown" yard actually), and bundles of new ties sitting every so often, I couldn't resist.....I asked... SEEMS BNSF is "hot-n-heavy" wanting to purchase this old Wabash line,..according to annomyous well placed sources (IMHO) and there is nothing like selling a silk purse if you want to get top dollar (instead of a sows ear). Now UP has trackage rights over these rails (they must, I saw UP power over these rails twice in last several days) but if BNSF purchased this route, *THAT* would certainly give rise to a tidy spat worth watching!! (Perhaps *this* is the new strategic alternative to further merger....WESTERN powerhouses buying jewels out of the crown of the conrail successors to the east?????? AND, seeing the new triplecrown yard/HQ was kinda neat...LOTS OF ACTIVITY.. Doesn't take much for one of those SD 70's to yank a string of semi trailers down the rail fast...first I was surprised to see the train whipping along mega quick,...then the big surprise---the single engine sounded BARELY laboring under the load...
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