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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeKoh it just proves a point how shortline tracks are called to get freight to the mainlines.a bill in congress right now(mentioned by lc in other posts) can help fix these lines.its not a simple fix or cheap either.Otherwise you have more trucks on our already congested us 24 here in ohio.and they are talking about staring widening by 2006. stay safe Joe [/quote] 24 is kind of a dragstrip between here and Toledo I'll admit, And really is one of the most direct routes from Kansas City to the Detroit vicinity, I drove it this past summerr. But has some SERIOUS bottlenecks in Quincy and Peoria IL.. If you are no fan of trucks Joe, I have a story you might like, on that same trip, I-70 was washed out near Vail CO, so, they detoured the entire I-70 up and over the Tennessee Pass, via US 24...It was beautiful, but the truckers were having a real bad time of it, And I was driving a heavily loaded rental truck, and pulling a trailer for the first time in my life. If I hadn't controlled my down hill speed, that trailer would have pushed me on my side in those hair-pin turns, so I played it safe, and still had my hands full...The Semi right behind me was unhappy at losing momentum in the up-n-down-n-up terrain, and started giving me horn blasts at times I just wasn't willing to go any faster, he got MEGA annoying- - so, on a good 7% uphill slope,..I simply stopped 1/10th mile up a good 2 mile rise, before proceeding up... Last I saw of that truck his cab was bouncing up-n-down under torque bounce like crazy,...didn't see him again......[banghead] beautiful country though, well worth stopping to smell the daisy's
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