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The Florida Gulf Coast Railroad was formed in 1930 by the merger of two west-central Florida railroads; the Gainesville & Gulf RR, and the Tampa Central Railway. Since then, the FLGC has operated as an independent regional carrier connecting Gainesville to the gulf coast and the greater Tampa area. ...

I don't post much. But I don't like trolls and typically don't give them any time or attention. But its funny how this Mt. Orab thing pops up and already fell through? Fell through what fell through nothing was going on. Its always sources and blah blah blah if it was legit then we would have more ...

Here are more details on each of the regular jobs and their duties. LSW-1 The daytime Lima Switcher comes on at 0600 every weekday to switch the yard, build the outbound LSL, spot and pull cars from Ford, and go to the Ottawa Loop when needed. Typically the LSW-1 will go to Ottawa in the early after...

When the Grand Trunk Western (owned by Canadian National) put the former DT&I mainline from Diann, Michigan to Springfield, Ohio up for sale in 1996, the Ohio Valley Transportation Services company came up with the winning bid and began operating the line as the Ohio Northern RR in 1997. Trackage ri...

northstar16 wrote:Knowing you both on this page I would say this is totally made up just to tick off anyone who likes the Peavine. Nobody is going to believe this. Stick with the facts this thread is about the Peavine and the CCET.

This is why nobody actually cares about trying to post relevant info here anymore.

jrgerber wrote:Thanks is the gettysburg unit gone

No. 105.

105, 1601, 1603, 1606, and 3054.

The Louisville & Evansville railroad (reporting marks L&E) began operations in 1950 between East St. Louis, IL, Evansville, IN, and Louisville, KY. Prior to 1950, the west end from Evansville to St. Louis was operated by the Missouri & Southern Illinois Railway, while the east end was operated by th...

Great video, thanks for sharing.

Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday is the general operating plan for the DSWI to go to Flat Rock.

TrainWatcher wrote:Actually, they have been running occasional Saturday and even Sunday turns to The Rock as well.

Neither of the Delta jobs work on Sunday and there is no extra board right now, so no Sunday runs.

M.D.Bentley wrote:When did the railroads start caring about the employees vs servicing the customers ?

The railroads don't care about either.

Early heads up on this. R-FTWCHI is westbound between Valpo and Hobart currently with CFER 9392 and 9401 for power and 52 cars. Computer shows the CHIFTW will turn back tomorrow with 109 cars for Fort Wayne. Both the 9392 and 9401 retain full SP paint as opposed to the other two ex-SP tunnel motors ...

It's a rather busy Friday evening on the CF&E. Here's a rundown of what's out there right now. L-WARVAL went to Valpo from Warsaw this afternoon. Train is currently in the siding at Hamlet to wait on the R-FTWCHI before continuing back to Warsaw to tie up for the weekend. Power is CFER 4000 with sev...

Let's imagine that instead of RailAmerica's CF&E leasing the former Pennsy from Chicago to Crestline in 2004, a different group leased it and started a railroad under the same name. In early 2004, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern and Mid-America Transportation LLC came to terms on a five year le...

Here is a list of the regular road trains on both divisions of the Bowling Green Southern. Trains that originated on one division and terminated on the other (except for trains originating/terminating in Bowling Green) will be listed under the division they originated on. Extra trains operated using...

Originally constructed in the early 1860's to connect Bowling Green, Kentucky, with the cities of Evansville, Indiana, and Nashville, Tennessee, the BGS system continued to grow over the next 80+ years, eventually reaching places like Louisville, Lexington, Somerset, Knoxville, Paducah, and Memphis....

The LNL will occasionally work Patrick Plastics in Leipsic, but any work in the Ottawa Loop is typically handled by a local crew out of either Delta or the Lima yard crew. Mike, the Delta crew will work Delta-Ottawa from time to time. Lima Yard crew will work as far south as Jackson Center if needed.

Them trains are always flipping me off too.

Lol this topic >

Keep dreaming.