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Double track Sugar Grove to Aurora is not good UNLESS they put the third main back in Aurora to West Eola. It was built with the idea of making that 5 tracks wide with the addition of two more then was built with. Zearing use to have a yard on both sides of the two track main. Double track Savanna to Burke is good we did need it in the '70s more when we were changing crews at Savanna Extending sidings is great now they can run longer trains CTC Bushnell to Beardstown should have been long ago if not double track I once had to run 6 against 8 on this single track line with track warrants and also run the Aurora to Galesburg double track line at the same time. When the office was in Galesburg management would ask us what we wanted for improvements on the Ottumwa Div. and so we told them only to be overlooked every year so we quit answering. Maybe now they will get something done. Hopefully not like some of the CREATE projects that just messed the operations up more then before. Off my soap box and back to the garden Steve in SC On Sunday, April 26, 2015 9:24 AM, "Matt Carlson matt@carlsonphotos.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote: 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 2nd 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
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 7:33 AM To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com 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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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 __._,_.___ Posted by: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net> __,_._,___ |