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The temporary Rockford terminal would be the east side CNW depot until a new one (presumably at Main St) gets built. The line east of Belvidere is in a good state of repair. Needs are signaling, the crossover at Big Timber and siding(s). The seven miles west to Rockford needs rail and ballast. This ...

That's the closed steel mill in Sand Springs. They (Gerdau Ameristeel) own the Sand Springs Railway.

Tuscan Red FRA car (DOTX ???) headed west on the Zephyr.

Options from the EIS: Alt 1 BNSF: eliminated primarily because of poor travel time, operational issues, and anticipated difficulties related to the host railroad’s readiness to accommodate high speed passenger service on its tracks. Alt 3 SWS: eliminated primarily because of operational issues, anti...

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The Rock Island route was chosen by the FRA for Joliet-Chicago. Double track will be extended from Joliet to Elwood.

First of three bustitutions starts on 8/16. The usual - Texas Eagle re-route, Chicago-St Louis bus or the two leg Saluki to Champaign to St Louis by bus.

I know its OT but the CSX line here in Taunton was opened today at 1pm when the lime green small locomotive came through. Too far to get the shot and see the markings so IDK if it was a CSX engine or leased. Ill ask on CSX but does anyone know what kind of locomotive and is it CSX's. Lime green and...

The institutional memory is a bit longer at the MTA than railroad.net. This is not surprising.

Weekday routes are Newark-WTC and Journal Sq-33rd, weekend is Newark-33rd only. Hoboken is still OoS.

Aesthetically it's a lump - the ATC/Roundhouse complex looks nice, if not quite monumental enough for the state's second city.

They're hoping Midtown tunnels early next week.

Apparently Lower Manhattan service is going to be a longer pull.

From the Amtrak service alert: However, as in the case of other tunnel owners and operators in New York City, Amtrak is removing water and making repairs to track, signal and power systems within its tunnels under the Hudson and East rivers. The amount of water intrusion into the tunnels is unpreced...

Testing is intrusive and expensive. Maybe rest of the industry is doing the bare minimum to meet legal and insurance requirements.

The forum at Railway Preservation News has a running thread on the extant branchline combines. Some are in better shape than others, though it seems certain the interiors were all gutted before going into MOW service. OTOH 1915 Pullman obs Lake City was used as a crew car and survived relatively int...

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