I live near Peoria. Last week I went through Farmington where the crossing at
IL Rt 116 was removed along with about a mile of track last year and no work
has been done to restore the line. I talked with a BNSF track worker who said
that the coal loads for Ameren-Cilco DuckCreek will come up through Dunfermline
and that track is now being repaired. Also, all the line from Yates City
through Canton is in very poor condition for coal trains and would be very
expensive to rebuild while the line through Dunfermline was used for coal drags
up to about four years ago. Ed Sanders --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com,
"Russ Strodtz" <normansen@...> wrote:
>
> BNSF is moving coal to Canton via Peoria about one each week.
> There are going to handle it from Yates City to Canton in the
> future as trackage gets better.
>
> A would doubt that it will be used from Canton to Dunfermline
> but it could happen. Would need some business first.
>
> Russ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@...>
> To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, 05 July, 2009 06:19
> Subject: [CBQ] Yates City Line
>
>
> >I talked to a guy I know in maintenance of way over the weekend. I guess
> >he's been working on the line that runs south of Yates City towards
> >Lewistown. Word is BNSF is going to run coal trains to Peoria that way. I
> >was in Yates City three or so months ago and the wye there was out of
> >service. He said they've got it back in service now. Several years ago
> >they were using the track for storage of autoracks. I thought it worth
> >mentioning.
> >
> > R.W. Brown, Jr.
> > Galesburg, IL
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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