by newpylong
Rail train is waybilled for Portland not sure if it will be dropped in Rigby or elsewhere. Seems overkill for the yard.
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CPF66 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:18 am Doubtful that its for east of Waterville. The track guys I talked to recently didn't expect to get anymore new rail another couple of years. Its probably a clean up train for Leeds-Waterville as there are a lot of places which haven't had rail dropped. They will also probably dump a bunch for track 1 & 2 in Waterville, since those have switch panels laid out. The rest might go up to keag, since the main from Winn to the start of NBSR trackage is all 85 LBS still as well as 4-5 miles of light rail in Lincoln which was skipped.Did I read your Portsmouth post correctly that big chunks of Waterville to keag are back to 10 mph speed restrictions?
F74265A wrote:That is/was correct. They have a 10 MPH restriction at NMJ and Bangor which were around before the geo train came in. But after they scanned the main a few weeks ago, a lot of the 25 MPH dropped back to 10 MPH. The MOW department has been slowly bringing spots back up, but the winter storms have definitely slowed the progress. It seemed like the train found a lot of defects in crossings and bridges. I can't imagine CSX has to big of a stockpile of 112LBS rail left which is defect free at this point. So I imagine the MOW department is replacing the defective stuff, with used rail that has been stockpiled over the years, which likely has defects itself. I know during Pan Am they were having the same problem with the 85 pound rail east of Passadumkeag. They used up all the good stuff that was left and when they were replacing broken/defective rails they were normally throwing in junk rail which had been pulled out during MEC/Guilford which hadn't been disposed of or marked as having defects.CPF66 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:18 am Doubtful that its for east of Waterville. The track guys I talked to recently didn't expect to get anymore new rail another couple of years. Its probably a clean up train for Leeds-Waterville as there are a lot of places which haven't had rail dropped. They will also probably dump a bunch for track 1 & 2 in Waterville, since those have switch panels laid out. The rest might go up to keag, since the main from Winn to the start of NBSR trackage is all 85 LBS still as well as 4-5 miles of light rail in Lincoln which was skipped.Did I read your Portsmouth post correctly that big chunks of Waterville to keag are back to 10 mph speed restrictions?