by Arborwayfan
Last Saturday (1/17) I watched a very long train of tank cars marked propylene cross a back road southeast of Terre Haute, Indiana. Not normally unusual; there are a lot of long trains around here. But I thought this line was abandoned: it had been covered in weeds and shrubs and -- so I thought, at least -- trees for several years, and some time last year they'd taken down the crossbucks and yellow warning signs. My dad, not usually a railfan but a transportation engineer, took a picture because you so rarely see a train crossing a street without crossbucks. The line runs from Springhill southeast to Riely and eventually to an abandoned coal mine east of Terre Haute. It was a CSX line, but the the train had INRD power.
We actually saw the train twice, once in each direction, so we know that it took cars east onto the branch and brought cars back west off the branch.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
We actually saw the train twice, once in each direction, so we know that it took cars east onto the branch and brought cars back west off the branch.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on?