Work is well under way for the realignment of the Sunset Route through Stafford. The tracks are being moved about 150 feet to the north of the present ...
Does anybody know whether there are (or ever were) plans to double track the Glidden Sub from West Jct. to Sugarland? I had read several years ago that ...
I have a set of SP engineering drawings, dated 1992 or thereabouts, for such construction, showing both trackage and signaling. Bill Neill Conroe, Texas ... ...
Right now nothing is happening on the double track through here. All the local NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) types are opposing it. They want the railroad to...
Hello Everyone, Happy New Year to all!! I read an article that KCS plans to build a yard in the El Campo area. Is this going to replace the function that the...
... -- Don't know the answer, but do know that Stafford's mayor has been against double tracking through Stafford for many years. This re-location is likely...
... -- In other words Staffod's mayor may have to eat his words about not wanting double tracking, while at the same time is getting a Freeway past the...
Just talking out loud, but El Campo is the logical place if a suitable site can be obtained. No, it will not replace the function of the SP Victoria yard. The...
But it doesn't explain why the UP consented to single track bridges during the current work on Alt 90. Surely double tracking of this line will be required at...
First call.. You are invited to attend..! Mark calendars now & arrive early for plenty of mainline train spotting, featuring trains of UP, BNSF and KCS de...
The pipe plant in Wharton is owned by Formosa,and they would indeed be a tough nut to crack. When I ran the short line in Wharton just getting them to sit down...
The statement about Victoria being a near nonattainment area for ozone is correct. That they discourage new industry is not true. I can not say more, but my...
I can't remember where the e-mails ended up on the boiler explosion of 745 east of Paisano on July 8, 1921. Hugh B. Wilson's Brief History of the El Paso...
Do you have that book or access to same? thanks Ed "a.d. mclennan" <admclennan@...> wrote: I can't remember where the e-mails ended up on the boiler...
Its interesting to me that the Surface Transportation Board, in granting the KCS the right to acquire and rebuild the Macaroni line, also granted the BNSF...
I stand by my original statement which was NOT the statement attributed to me. I might add that the industrial development record of Victoria and Victoria ...
While I don't have any specifics, the fact remains that railroads talk all the time about such issues. While things may have progressed (or digressed) to...
Yes, most definitely. I checked on line to see that the UTEP library collection has the MS and photos. But is a little hard for us here in NOLA area to access!...
01/06/07: There is not much progress to report. All that has changed is that the ROW clearing phase has progressed so that both sides of the ROW are cleared...
In a message dated 1/4/07 10:56:13 AM Central Standard Time, ... There is a third option besides CTC and unsignalled. ABS (Automatic Block System) without...
Ed Easier than sending a photocopy of page 46 of Hugh B. Wilson's Brief History of the El Paso Division (1925) is typing out an extract: 'At a point a...
REMINDER - The Dallas Area Train Show (Plano TX) will be held Jan. 13 and 14, 2007, at Plano Centre, 2000 E. Spring Creek Pkwy. From Central Expy/US-75, take...
Thank you VERY MUCH It certainly appears that 745 was forwarded to El Paso for repairs rather than towed back to Houston, which I would have thought would have...
Hello, Recently I became interested in Bush JCT. Didn't this used to be called "Bryan Crossing"? Why and what was the purpose of UP making Bush JCT? What is...
It may have something to do with the Bush Presidential Library in College Station. Last year they held an exhibit called "Trains: Tracks of the Iron Horse"...
Bush Jct was renamed after a personality who has a library at A&M. It could also be construed as a location where fantasy (UP) intersects with reality (SP). ...
10 points and a Gold star to the first person who can respond with the _original_ name for the _NEW_ control point that is now Bush Jct. I'm not asking the...
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