Working rail roads and their tracks.

[MossRoad]

I'm not aware of another one planned for Goshen, just that one in Dunlap. We call that new overpass the roller coaster. I'm sure you know why!

Is that the one heading east out of the north side of town?

 

[RobS]

Is that the one heading east out of the north side of town?

Yep, that's the one. It looks like a roller coaster!

The other day, wife and I were on bikes headed for home. On Lincoln, under that overpass. Train came through. Train stopped. Many cars turning around but I knew the only way around was going to be up and over which adds some distance to a bike ride. We waited and eventually the train got moving again. Good thing we had some warmer clothes and lights!

 

[5030]

Right on subject and brings back memories... Weirton Steel Railroad...

Grimy, like I remember it....lol

Weirton Steel - YouTube

 

[BravoXray]

Like the Mishawaka Road area? Huh. Seems awful close to the CR17 overpass. Anyhow, another way to get over the tracks sure would be helpful. That's such a congested area for train traffic.

Yep, just north of there. It will connect CR13, Lewis Street, to US33 at the mall. They'll close the CR13 crossing too.
It's only about a mile south of the US20 exchange, and a mile and a half north of the CR17 over pass. Of course you have to go a half mile west to get to the intersection of CR17 and Reith Drive.

There is a LOT of train traffic in that corridor. When they were doing the initial planning for the new overpass, the study said that there were 100 to 125 trains a day on those three tracks. When they laid the new rails from Goshen out to the crossing by Ox Bow park, that upped the capacity and also gave them a place to park trains until they can get them into the yard. Now that NS has started using a lot of distributed power, some of the trains will stretch from the CR15 (Ox Bow Park) crossing back to around the Green Road crossing, mostly to around where Eby Ford is at. That's right at two miles.

 

[BravoXray]

The other day, wife and I were on bikes headed for home. On Lincoln, under that overpass. Train came through. Train stopped. Many cars turning around but I knew the only way around was going to be up and over which adds some distance to a bike ride. We waited and eventually the train got moving again. Good thing we had some warmer clothes and lights!

There is a local that does a lot of switching in and out of the siding that crosses Logan street. They feed pneumatic hopper cars to the Brunk Corp., where they process the plastic pellets the cars carry. They block Lincoln Ave. a lot, but usually only for a few minutes at a time.

One interesting thing about that local is that a while back they went from two locomotives to one, and started dragging a caboose behind the locomotive. I wonder why?

The new bypass isn't in the database of my GPS, and on the rare occasion I have it on, it really gets confused when I'm on it.

 

[Creamer]

Moss, thanks for the Bloomberg article...interesting...!

Couldn't miss the article's mention of how the European governments had implemented policies to get people to do what the governments wanted, through punitive taxes on automobiles and fuel and targeted infrastructure investments.

Thought provoking...and makes my jaw tight.

Visited my old home town in upstate NY about 3 weeks ago...after being gone for nearly 45 years.

Looks like the trains left about the same time I did. The old trestle is all that remains.

If I search...I may still have a flattened penny or two from back in the day when we thought doing something that risky was a guaranteed jail term and would likely cause the train to derail!

The other thing is that the rail system works great if you want to go from city to city or from the country into the city but it is awful at letting you get from a small town to a small town. For instance in France I lived two hours east of Paris and there was a train that went right into Gare du Nord (North Station) but if I wanted to go another small city an hour south of me I had to take the train two hours to Paris, then the subway to the East Station and then another train two hours back out of Paris. It used to be that this was Ok for people but they are not as accepting anymore.

 

[MossRoad]

There is a local that does a lot of switching in and out of the siding that crosses Logan street. They feed pneumatic hopper cars to the Brunk Corp., where they process the plastic pellets the cars carry. They block Lincoln Ave. a lot, but usually only for a few minutes at a time.

One interesting thing about that local is that a while back they went from two locomotives to one, and started dragging a caboose behind the locomotive. I wonder why?

The new bypass isn't in the database of my GPS, and on the rare occasion I have it on, it really gets confused when I'm on it.

Dragging a caboose around probably means someone has to hop on and off a lot to do some manual tasks, or, has to manually check some unguarded crossing or something.

 

[MossRoad]

Yep, that's the one. It looks like a roller coaster!

The other day, wife and I were on bikes headed for home. On Lincoln, under that overpass. Train came through. Train stopped. Many cars turning around but I knew the only way around was going to be up and over which adds some distance to a bike ride. We waited and eventually the train got moving again. Good thing we had some warmer clothes and lights!

OK, I know what you're talking about now. When we walked the trail a while back, I hadn't been on that side of Goshen for probably over 30 years. I was kinda shocked to see such an elevated road in that town. I guess it was 33 years ago, when I was delivering flowers for a wholesaler. I had a daily route from South Bend east to Mishawaka, Elkhart, Bristol, Middlebury, back to Elkhart, and back to South Bend. We were located on South Main St. in South Bend, but were owned by Pickerel's right across Lincolnway from the western edge of the Robert Young yard in Elkhart. So I had to drop off paperwork there every morning, finish my route, and pick up paperwork on the way back to SB. So I got to drive past the yard twice a day. Saw some neat stuff.

 

[RobS]

There is a local that does a lot of switching in and out of the siding that crosses Logan street. They feed pneumatic hopper cars to the Brunk Corp., where they process the plastic pellets the cars carry. They block Lincoln Ave. a lot, but usually only for a few minutes at a time.

One interesting thing about that local is that a while back they went from two locomotives to one, and started dragging a caboose behind the locomotive. I wonder why?

The new bypass isn't in the database of my GPS, and on the rare occasion I have it on, it really gets confused when I'm on it.

I've noticed that caboose as well, been meaning to get a photo for a local-ish facebook railroad page. And you mentioned distributed power. I've noticed that as well with a locomotive mid-length. I presume the advantage is longer trains but what's the advantage of the mid-train loco versus more at the front?

 

[MossRoad]

Next time you see one in the middle of the train, look and see if it's putting out exhaust. Many times they're transporting them to the yard for service.