All those railroaders moving around the meeting last weekend and I forgot to ask a question that I should have. On the Q we called the caboose a way car. I was...
Anyone know why the IC has trains with IC engines and a lot of IC and CN grain cars going through Litchfield on the BNSF line from Herrin to Beardstown...
Scott Millick
smillick@...
Oct 2, 2005 3:38 am
21604
My guess is those are the grain trains the IC has been routing via the BNSF between East Dubuque, Illinois, and Centralia, Illinois. Grain trains headed to...
Well, considering that I have seen IC and CN on UP track here in South Texas, it does not surprise me to find them on BNSF track. The reason is probably due...
DennisBurgoine@...
Oct 2, 2005 3:45 am
21606
In a message dated 10/1/2005 10:59:59 P.M. Central Daylight Time, wales23@... writes: UP 5111 East getting a warrant to proceed from Rockford to MP 36...
Hey all, Well, Mr. Murphy strikes again!!! IF I had waited five more min. at Irene and watched the sigs at Colvin Park, I would have seen him coming from ...
... Chet I worked out of Lasalle as cuctomere service agent in the 70's until I was bumped off the job, agent at Wilmington, and Pontiac and when I was bumped...
... The Beardston Sub intersects the IC at Centralia. Perhaps this is a new route to get the grain past Chicago. Doesn't someone wish that IC Industries did...
The caption on the photo of the ICHS October 2005 calendar states it is from an unknown location. Features visible in the photo include a turntable,...
TVA has leased a pair of ex ICG GP11s and the NREX units (8748 and 8749) are busy moving coal from the CSX interchange near Drakesboro, KY to TVA's Paradise...
... The Beardston Sub intersects the IC at Centralia. Perhaps this is a new route to get the grain past Chicago. Doesn't someone wish that IC Industries did...
... I think it would have needed rebuilding. They tore it up pretty fast too. Much faster than the wreckers have been able to get at the old TP&W. You can...
It's interesting that NRE has apparently duplicated the IC numberboard font style on the cab side numbers. ... From: "Chuck Hinrichs" <chuckrail@...> ...
A couple of shots to share with everyone of today's (Sunday) south bound City of New Orleans. P42 148 was on the front, and 67 was pushing on the rear. Both...
In a message dated 10/3/2005 1:53:28 A.M. Central Daylight Time, missinglink34@... writes: F33791-02 UP 5111, UP 9701, UP 4281 Crew called at 22:30-02 at ...
October 2, 1960, was truly a historic day for IC fans. On that day 4-8-2 2613 powered a round trip between Louisville and Dawson Springs, KY, to close out the...
... The IC kept a big 0-8-0 at Greenwood, MS up into 1960. It was in 1960 that some teens found it fired up one night with no one around and cracked open the...
Yes, and isn't it a shame someone did buy it for scrap value and it might be running today. Went down the new line from JK Jct to Dawson, return the old line...
There was a derailment today about 3pm in Rives, TN. 1 tank car right behind the locomitive derailed. Luckly it stayed upright and did not leak. Traffic is...
A Union Pacific train came into Dubuque westbound across the bridge from East Dubuque around 4:30-5am, dropped off a car on a side track and is now sitting in...
The UP is detouring two trains a day (one east, one west) on the CN from Chicago to Council Bluffs. This is due to work being done on the East-West in...
Hey all, A train, 4300 ft or so just went West over the Irene, IL HBD ( MP 71.4) Don't know if this is M337 or a detour....vehicle in shop at the moment, so ...
... A UP was posted on the list the other day. They had UP trains run through in the past. A UP coal train ran through the other weekend during the convention....
... It seems that UP MOW is in full force throughout Nebraska, Iowa, and Wyoming. There was a significant number of track restrictions during my outing from...
That is a very interesting occurrence. It is kind of like the occurrence of seeing CN locomotives in the deep south of Texas, or CP Rail for that matter....
DennisBurgoine@...
Oct 5, 2005 3:40 am
21630
... track ... here? ... cars. ... Yeah, just dropped one on the track where they normally put the bad cars and a snowplow is sitting. They hit the cars so...
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