How Did I Miss This One 3714

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:08:14 -0800, Scott en Aztl‡n

Other than the right-of-way itself, there probably isn't much. Consider the standards of railway construction in the mid 19th century (at least in the midwest USA). Not much could've lasted, what with heavier cars, widening of ROW for more tracks, and so forth.

If you can run 100 car double stack container or 15 car double-deck commuter trains on it, that's probably a mainline railroad.

Yes, but that line was taken over by the CRT-CNS&M back in the 1920's. The track elevation was done by the CRT, not the

And not over that line at all. The 90 MPH operation, what there was, was over the grade level Skokie Valley route further inland. What's left of that is the CTA Yellow Line.

True, and those were maintained by the C&NW (now UP).One of the reasons that the C&NW didn't go to s--t like the Milwaukee & Rock Island is that the C&NW was anal about maintaining its physical plant.

If Brent thinks Metra trains typically run at 25 MPH, either he ain't seen or rode on one lately, or he had his mental timeline artificially altered ('shrooms and peyote can do that).

AFAIK, it's still part of the UP, and the trains run at max Metra speed, but there's not much if any freight traffic.

-- Ned Carlson www.tubezone.net South Side of Chicago,IL USA 2-3-2006 1:14:39 AM