What will Metra do for power on UP west when the F40's wear out?

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CShaveRR

You mean the bridge that self-destructed on top of an automobile one 100-degree Fourth of July a few years back, due to heat kinks in the rails because of the difference in ballast between terra firma and an open-deck bridge, which UP had wanted to replace but the cities involved wouldn't let them? Is that the one?

I think it's the one almost exactly two years ago, where (supposedly) the DPU failed to stop pushing when the trainline went into emergency.

Where is the reference to UP wanting to replace the bridge but the local authorities not letting them?  That is missing from most of the "popular" accounts of the accident -- perhaps not surprisingly.

Do we know how the Lindner wrongful-death lawsuit came out?

 

(Sorry to hijack the original thread, the topic of which is still something I'm interested in learning about...)

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Wizlish

Do we know how the Lindner wrongful-death lawsuit came out?  

Still tied up in courts.   http://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/510578750-wrongful-death-suit-against-union-pacific-heads-back-to-state-court-seventh-circuit-said-it-lacked-jursidiction-to-hear-appeal