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Same outcome. It's not possible to separate PC and the entire state of railroading in the Northeast after WWI - eventually, the same result (rationalization, consolidation, and deregulation) would have had to occur.

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I live about a half-mile west of Buckeye Yard. If you're still planning a trip to the area, contact me off-line at [email protected] and I'll give you a complete rundown on trainwatching spots. There are several good ones.

I'd love to see it - but most of UP's traffic from the west runs via Chicago - again, UP won't run anything into STL that doesn't have to due to costs and congestion. As far as traffic coming up from Texas and Louisiana- traffic for points south of Cincinnati would run into Nashville, which is CSX's...

Remeber that CSX management made the decision to get rid of the St. Louis Divison many years ago when traffic levels were down and invested capital dollars elsewhere. It's been practical to keep the line around for overflow traffic - but I still fear there is no real future for the line. Sooner or l...

CSX did withdraw the abandonment petition. It's now used as an "overflow valve" for the Louisville-Cincinnati "Short Line", which is a physically fragile, mostly single-track line line. As an example, CSX suffered a tunnel collapse last year, and decided to daylight Eagle Tunnel....

brokenrail - you are correct in that the -primary- Columbus-Indy freight route changed over to Union City (in early 1973, I think). I believe that in PRR days, a Richmond crew ran a daily Dayton Turn to move western traffic to and from the Dayton-Xenia area. The cars were then plugged into the mainl...

It's possible he's correct- rmember that PRR's Columbus-Indy freight route was the Chicago main as far west as Bradford, OH, then southwest through Greenville to Richmond, IN. Dayton-Richmond didn't see too much beyond the passenger trains Reasons: - Clement Hill on the east side of Dayton required ...

It's true that the Dayton Branch was built the main line - they originally planned to connect with the Ohio and Mississippi (which became the B&O Cincinnati-St. Louis main) at Cincinnati to form a broad-gauge route to St. Louis. Things never panned out, and the line from Marion to Chicago built ...

"But the only rail service they have now that the EL mainline is gone is over the dark-territory Scottslawn Secondary, on a convoluted route from Columbus to a tie-in with the CR Indy Line" The Honda plant was and is located a good 20 miles to the southwest of Marion at the crossing of the...

I agree with the previous posters that PRR would have merged with another railroad had PC merger not taken place. However, if we are going to consider Pennsy as a stand-alone entity, I firmly disagree that PRR would have survived the 1970's recession. Of all the NY-Chicago carriers, they were by far...

Is there a problem with the track structure in the area? This would be the third derailment along this mile-long stretch of ROW in the last three years - that I know of.

One still haunts the Washington Court House, Ohio area. The Indiana and Ohio uses it for long backup moves in switching customers in the area - along with a ex DT&I caboose.

If you've ever crossed the Ohio River on I-65 in downtown Louisville, you've seen it - it's just upstream. It is a MASSIVE black through-truss bridge, sitting what must be eighty to ninety feet above the normal river level - and is completely isolated. The approach spans were removed thirty years ag...

The one-two punch of the Interstate Highway System and the jet airplane in the late 1950's doomed the passenger train. After 1960, railroad accounting might have been able to show a "profit" for a passenger train network based on zero capital costs - but such accounting did not provide for...

Andyt293... Re- the Charmin plant in Mehoopany.... Trust me – the story related to you about the traffic being too profitable is inaccurate. I did a case study on this traffic as a college student majoring in Transportation and Logistics in the mid 1980’s Factor #1 : When Mehoopany was on LV's main ...