The Fort Wayne Railfan

I just got the email announcing it.

That's a good question. NS is using 136# rail from SDI to replace both rails on the New Castle District from Muncie to the Fort. It takes a lot of work to swap out the extrusion plate and all the shaping rollers in a mill like SDI. They prefer, obviously, to produce huge batches of one size. To stay...

Nice chunk of change. This will help (a little, I know) keep them a going concern.

The train with autoracks is no longer 288/289, but 188/189. 189 has a block of general freight up front and lots of autoracks. Most days well over 100 cars. 188 doesn't seem to have much, if any merchandise block. Tue08Sep2020. 174 had a pull apart just North of Ossian. This train had 2x2x0 dpu set-...

I did some random speed checks stop to stop at various locations and it averages a little over 30 mph.

neat

PRR bought the Wabash, but long after the elevation work.

They were preparing to remove the concrete base in Decatur. Did it finally come down?

Looks familiar. I need to get back up there again.

starting to look like an honest, ratty, Reading loco.

I just looked and now it's up to 80 views. I don't know how to take this.

Check out pg 48 of the August 2020 Trains magazine.

You mis-understand, I work with INDOT every other day, so this mind-numbing complexity seems normal to me. Howard nailed it. As for the errors, I see them all the time. Some of it has to do with non-compliant paperwork to update information, like not filing the proper abandonment forms. Purchase agr...

That's just another day in the office for me.

It's been a while, but I saw my first autorack train (289?) in a long time heading South THU04JUN2020. For the last three months, you'd see a car or two, maybe a block of six in a merchandise train, not a solid unit train. Since PSR ate the brains of rail leaders, 289 (the regularly scheduled rack t...