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Satellite I label this both rrAlton and rrUP because it is built along the route that the 1928 Alton owned, but the yard has been built by UP after they bought the route. Even though it is relatively new as far as railroad facilities go, Dan indicates that it is being expanded. Dan Tracy posted two photos with the comment: " Couple of shots showing the expansion project at Global 4 on 9-23-18. Shots taken from Millsdale Road . " Tom Meyer   Good stuff! Thanks so much for sharing! This expansion is in part to accommodate the additional traffic secured with the new O.N.E, (Ocean Network Express) contract. This too may also include the final transition of the last North/South O/D Train pairs currently handled in the small/antiquated Yard Center Facility , as promised for quite some time.......... Global 4 had already made Canalport obsolete. It is now just used for storage to support Global 1 . 1 2

( Bridge Hunter , Satellite ) Roy Kessmann posted four photos with the comment: Ashtabula, Ohio Bridge disaster 1876 The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway designed a bridge to cross the Ashtabula Creek in 1865.The Chief Engineer reviewed the design and declared it unsafe. The CEO of the railroad said to build it anyway. The bridg e design was based upon wooden structures in use at the time but wrought iron was used for the structural members instead. No one really knew the strength of wrought iron at the time for a given thickness. The bridge was a two track affair having a height of 70 feet over the creek. In a freezing, howling blizzard on Friday, December 28, 1876 train #5, the Pacific Express approached the bridge Westbound being pulled by two engines: The Socrates and the Columbia. Four helper engines were used in getting the 11 car train through the snow drifts on its way from Buffalo. In the process of crossing the bridge it failed due to metal fatigue. The first engine m...

( Bridge Hunter , Satellite ) Street View Mark T Pillow posted photos and videos with the comment: This is a photo story of the replacement of a 112 year old trestle in Barnhart, MO It's sad to see it go but it's been on fire a few times and was beginning to lilt. Harvey Henkelmann Harvey and 219 others joined RAILROAD BRIDGES, TRESTLES, TUNNELS AND CUTS within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community!   Looks like they're replacing it with a UCEB. [Ugly Concrete Eyesore Bridge] At least they replaced it instead of abandoning the line. Mark T Pillow Mark and 219 others joined RAILROAD BRIDGES, TRESTLES, TUNNELS AND CUTS within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community!   it takes coal to rush island, "river run" from stl Mark T Pillow Mark and 219 others joined RAILROAD BRIDGES, TRESTLES, TUNNELS AND CUTS within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community!   I've heard a few trains tonight, i...

( Satellite )  Note the long inlet channel to the powerhouse penstocks. It must have been rainy because the dam is spilling a lot more water than is going through the powerhouse. Doug Kearney posted three photos with the comment: Grove RT875E working on the Pine river dam for WE Energies in Florence, WI. A lot goes into setting it up. They had to haul the barge sections down the hill, launch them, then roll the crane on board. You can see the ramps on far shore. Driving the crane down the hill was probably a bit of an adventure. 1 2 3 "Near Florence" is relative. It struck me as being rather far away until I saw how few towns were in the area. I noticed that there are some bigger, closer powerhouses. And they also are spilling a lot of water. Satellite Satellite I almost missed the powerhouse for this one because it is downstream, and I do not see an intake structure for the penstocks. Satellite Satellite This reservoir needed some "helper" side dams . So the Pine R...

( Bridge Hunter , no Historic Bridges,  Satellite ) Street View There is no problem with treelines blocking the view in this area. Screenshot @ -0:33 from video posted by Justin Nelson Amtrak’s westbound Empire Builder crossing the Gassman Coulee trestle, just west of Minot, ND this morning. [Aug 18, 2018] DigitalHorizonsOnline DigitalHorizonsOnline DigitalHorizonsOnline DigitalHorizonsOnline DigitalHorizonsOnline DigitalHorizonsOnline Screenshot  @ -5:16

Unknown Author , Public Domain This is a map of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad as of 1918, with trackage rights  in purple  and then-proposed lines dotted. The Detroit, Toledo & Ironton route started as various narrow gauge railroads. With a series of bankruptcies and corporate maneuvers, it became a contiguous standard gauge railroad between Detroit and Ironton with a branch to Toledo. When Henry Ford was building his huge River Rouge Complex, he bought the DT&I on July 9, 1920 and added the Dearborn branch shown on the map below. The DT&I route connected his plant to all of the major east/west railroads and allowed him to choose which railroads handled which shipments. But his vision was much more than a glorified industrial spur. He planed to build an extension to Deepwater, WV where it would connect with the lucrative Virginian Railway. He then planned to buy that railway to give him a connection to an Atlantic port. He also planned to electrify ...

(no Bridge Hunter?; no Historic Bridges;  Satellite , 9 photos) Bridge Hunter has several little bridges for Spotsylvania County, but I could not find this one. Fredericksburg did not have it either. Nor Stafford County. Street View Kenneth James White posted  a Google Photo that has a  link to Brenda Holloway's blog Brenda seems to have several blogs and lifeonabridged is just about bridges. I copied the above photo from her blog as "fair use" to call attention to some of her blog photos as art. (My photos are just information.)

The notes for the C&NW 40th Street Yard are getting long, so I'm going to treat this locomotive parked there as a separate topic. I also learned that there is still a staffed switchtender position controlling the throat to the 40th Street Yard. David Daruszka updated John Carson   Westinghouse's gas turbine experiment. Did not work out. Pre dates GE's Gas Turbines on the UP. David Daruszka David and 1 other manage the membership, moderators, settings, and posts for Chicago Railroad Historians.   Westinghouse-Baldwin No. 4000 was an experimental 4,000-hp B-B-B-B demonstrator locomotive built in 1950. The unit was powered by two relatively small 2,000-hp gas turbines mounted side-by-side within a 77 ft 10 in carbody. Each turbine drove two gener ators, which in turn supplied power to four axles. The odd-looking nose of the unit was very similar to earlier Raymond Loewy designs used on the Baldwin “Sharknose” locomotives, and incorporated a prow that slanted in a forward ...