MP173 Really enjoying this discussion on the IC(G). Those flickr photos are entertaining and informative. Those look like fairly healthy trains...not huge but most appear to be in the 25-30 trailer range. Is it just me, but I miss the TOFC trains. The double stacks seem a bit boring. Yes, much more efficient. I still see the trailers, quite a few UPS units, but seldom in a solid train block. The Flickr photo of Bloomington (NS crossing). Back in early 90s I had a customer adjacent to that overpass - Nestle -Beich a candy manufacturer and I was always on the lookout for trains. One day I ventured over to the cabin...no one there so I looked inside. There were a few Record of Station Movements lying on the floor and I helped clean up the abandoned cabin just a bit. I believe they are downstair in my basement. Ed
Really enjoying this discussion on the IC(G). Those flickr photos are entertaining and informative. Those look like fairly healthy trains...not huge but most appear to be in the 25-30 trailer range.
Is it just me, but I miss the TOFC trains. The double stacks seem a bit boring. Yes, much more efficient. I still see the trailers, quite a few UPS units, but seldom in a solid train block.
The Flickr photo of Bloomington (NS crossing). Back in early 90s I had a customer adjacent to that overpass - Nestle -Beich a candy manufacturer and I was always on the lookout for trains.
One day I ventured over to the cabin...no one there so I looked inside. There were a few Record of Station Movements lying on the floor and I helped clean up the abandoned cabin just a bit. I believe they are downstair in my basement.
Ed
BN Target was an odd little operation. It controlled the CTC between Normal and Market Street just north of the N&W and P&E crossings. Despite all of the signals surrounding the Chicago-St. Louis mainline and Jack Line diamonds, nothing was interlocked. All trains had to come to a stop before proceeding, regardless of the signal aspect displayed. The N&W signals lit up green in both directions when the operator gave a train permission to cross the ICG tracks. Definitely took me by surprise during my first visit in college.
Now everything is gone, except the diamonds and the name: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ns145/25825114001/
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