RE: [CBQ] BNSF PLANS Chicago & Aurora div improvements

["Matt Carlson matt@carlsonphotos.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Bit more than that, as of this week CTC is now south of La Crosse too CP 2546 at Lynxville with the last new CP north of PdC at 244 should come online this soon. As this happens the searchlights, manual crossovers old station signs, old sheds are being removed. Signal crews are working south from Crawford which is also getting new signals and rework of the interchange with WSOR.  South of Pdc there will be three more new control points with dual #24 movable crossovers at 179, 210 (Cassville), 222 (Glen Haven). Up here in La Crosse crews this week started working through the swamp filling in for the 2^nd main from Graf to Grand Crossing were there will be another dual crossover. Subgrade already in place from Graf to WI-16.  Last November CP 3072  by Lytle was cut in and the would St Croix sub will also be going full dual-direction CTC by the end of 2015 with new CP at 217 (Trempealeau), 339 (Cochrane), 349 (Alma), 372 (Stockholm) and 393 (Diamond Bluff).  Winona Jct will also be changing with the removal of CP3236 and dual main through there.   So by the end of 2015 very little will be left of the Q along the river and it will be a whole new RR (now if they can figure out how to runs trains without the crews dying)

 

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Matt Carlson

La Crosse, Wisconsin

 

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] BNSF PLANS Chicago & Aurora div improvements

 

Arghh, if only they'd done that in the 70's! And, I may be having a Sr moment, but where isn't there CTC on Aurora sub?

 

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Subject: [CBQ] BNSF PLANS Chicago & Aurora div improvements

 

 

According to April Progressive Railroading the BNSF is making a number of track improvements on the former Q's Chicago and Aurora Div.

Double track Aurora to Sugar Grove
Double track Savanna to Burke
Connect the former Q east end at Western Ave to the former ATSF at Ash St in Chicago.
Install CTC on Aurora and Beardstown subs
Extend 5 sidings in IL
Extend tracks at Zearing

Leo Phillipp

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