BlHanel + others re/Ceder Rapids

[jeffhergert]

After some LONG shifts here at Amana with lots of heat cases...things finally Q****ed down (don't want to jinx myself!), and I got to chat with some folks. They did have a switcher, sounds like it is long gone. Tracks at one time ran "all the way through the building," and "everything went by rail." One guy thinks they "should" go back to getting the steel by rail...but doesn't see it happening. It sounds like he doesn't think "the railroads" are reliable enough with on time delivery. Then again, the "just in time" truckers haven't been doing so good lately either.

From what I've seen, you'd never know that rail cars were ever in here, and if not for the grade out back leading to the IAIS; you wouldn't know that tracks even came here.

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around how it all worked: RI tracks on the South side, and MILW switch jobs servicing the plant. Did MILW have trackage rights on the RI? Or, did the MILW have a spur off of their line?

I've got to look at the pics in the conf. room, just can't be out of my little bandaid shop long enough to get there. Sick and hurt people can be so inconvenient, you know...

 

Chris, AKA: "Lucky"

2nd shift medic in the land of refrigerators

  Forget RI (not that I ever could), all that track goint past the plant was originally MILW.  Their original line to Kansas City, built in the early 1880s.  The RI went thru Homestead and South Amana and is now IAIS.  The RI crossed over the MILW on that bridge over by the intersection of Hwys 6 and 151.  In those days there was no physical connection.  The Crandic, who bought the line to Amana, put what's now the west leg of the Yocum wye in about 15 or so years ago.  At the time it wasn't a wye and was called CIC Jct.  The east leg was put in within the last 10 or so years. 

Jeff

       

[blhanel]

There seems to be quite a bit of a grade coming up the legs of that wye.  Know what it is, Jeff?

[AmanaMedic]

After some LONG shifts here at Amana with lots of heat cases...things finally Q****ed down (don't want to jinx myself!), and I got to chat with some folks. They did have a switcher, sounds like it is long gone. Tracks at one time ran "all the way through the building," and "everything went by rail." One guy thinks they "should" go back to getting the steel by rail...but doesn't see it happening. It sounds like he doesn't think "the railroads" are reliable enough with on time delivery. Then again, the "just in time" truckers haven't been doing so good lately either.

From what I've seen, you'd never know that rail cars were ever in here, and if not for the grade out back leading to the IAIS; you wouldn't know that tracks even came here.

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around how it all worked: RI tracks on the South side, and MILW switch jobs servicing the plant. Did MILW have trackage rights on the RI? Or, did the MILW have a spur off of their line?

I've got to look at the pics in the conf. room, just can't be out of my little bandaid shop long enough to get there. Sick and hurt people can be so inconvenient, you know...

 

Chris, AKA: "Lucky"

2nd shift medic in the land of refrigerators

  Forget RI (not that I ever could), all that track goint past the plant was originally MILW.  Their original line to Kansas City, built in the early 1880s.  The RI went thru Homestead and South Amana and is now IAIS.  The RI crossed over the MILW on that bridge over by the intersection of Hwys 6 and 151.  In those days there was no physical connection.  The Crandic, who bought the line to Amana, put what's now the west leg of the Yocum wye in about 15 or so years ago.  At the time it wasn't a wye and was called CIC Jct.  The east leg was put in within the last 10 or so years. 

Jeff

       

Ahhhhhhh, that explains it.

Again, just goes to show where assumptions can/will lead a guy.

Thanks Jeff!

[AmanaMedic]

After some LONG shifts here at Amana with lots of heat cases...

Can't they just open all the doors on the refrigerators being tested?

Don't I wish....

*grin*