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[quote user="KCSfan"]<p>I vaguely remember driving on the highway that paralled the TP&W from Gilman through Effner sometime in the latter half of the 1950's. There was no yard or engine service facilities not even a town there as I recall, only sign along the track stating that this was Effner. I think there was a siding off of which a Wye for turning engines branched but I'm pretty hazy on this detail. I do remember distinctly the contrast between the ROW's of the two railroads. The TP&W was well ballasted and maintained and looked like a mainline. The Pennsy to the east on the otherhand was sparsely ballasted and weed grown.</p> <p>Mark</p>[/quote]<br> <br> Time has caught up with the Illinois half. Was the Highway weigh station there at the state line when you drove through?<br> <br> I've always had the impression that if the weigh station was not there, nothing else would be, either.<br> <br> Let me ask you this, how many trains did you see during your trip alongside the rails? I spent the better part of an afternoon in may 2003 driving from Peoria to Logansport,. and never did see a train on that line. Just mile after mile of rusty ribbons punctuated with a desolate looking grain elevator from time to time.<br> <br> The surprise was in getting to Remington In, and seeing the (relatively) new, and nearly abandoned BNSF transload facility sitting there, with the yard lights burning bright at 5 pm, a good 4 hours before nightfall. Not a train or human in sight. Then following the PRR half of it on into Logansport, never saw a train on that end, either.<br> <br> You hear all the bellyaching about the smothering congestion in Chicago...and it's likely true.<br> <br> What's not true is any claim that the RR's don't have reasonable alternatives.<br> <br> Chicago is congested because the RR's want to go there. Alternately they could use this TP&W line and then NS from Logansport to Toledo, for a handy Chicago bypass if the RR's REALLY wanted one.<br>
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