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Title: |
Old diamond |
Description: |
This crossing has seen a lot of traffic and is looking a little bumpy. |
Photo Date: |
3/4/2013 Upload Date: 3/4/2013 6:17:04 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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226 Comments: 6 |
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Title: |
New diamond |
Description: |
This set is still a long way from being finished. |
Photo Date: |
3/4/2013 Upload Date: 3/4/2013 6:17:39 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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206 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
CSXT 510 |
Description: |
Slowly and noisily, Q146 is coming downhill past the work site. |
Photo Date: |
3/4/2013 Upload Date: 3/4/2013 6:18:18 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
CSX 510(AC44CW) CSX 283(AC44CW) |
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164 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
New diamond |
Description: |
The new diamond is starting to look like it could work. |
Photo Date: |
3/4/2013 Upload Date: 3/9/2013 11:20:10 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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98 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
New diamond, March 23 |
Description: |
This is coming along nicely |
Photo Date: |
3/4/2013 Upload Date: 3/24/2013 9:33:20 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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97 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
April 22, 2013 was moving day |
Description: |
By the time I got there, the old diamond had been removed and they were preparing the roadbed for the new one. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:14:41 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
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131 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Rolling |
Description: |
The roadbed has to be compacted |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:15:49 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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120 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
IAIS 513 |
Description: |
Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage unit stopped by. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:17:01 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Roster,Track |
Locomotives: |
IAIS 513(ES44AC) |
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146 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Finishing touches |
Description: |
The roadbed is smoothed as one of the cranes pulls into position |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:19:31 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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83 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Mantis |
Description: |
Three of these guys will do the heavy lifting |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:20:01 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
64 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BNSF 6540 |
Description: |
Q172 rolls past the new diamond |
Photo Date: |
3/4/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:20:27 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
BNSF 6540(ES44C4) BNSF 6553(ES44C4) |
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374 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Crane camera |
Description: |
In addition to this guy there was a video crew walking around and two fixed cameras shooting 30-second time-lapse stills. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:20:49 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
78 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Mantises |
Description: |
The big players take their positions. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:21:17 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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77 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Lunch wagon |
Description: |
I don't know how this guy got in his truck to drive with all the pizzas in the front seat. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:21:42 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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85 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Taking up slack |
Description: |
With two backhoes handling the ends, the Mantises start their lift. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:22:14 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
73 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CSXT 5005 |
Description: |
X171 came through and nobody noticed except one guy who took it upon himself to watch the train by. |
Photo Date: |
3/4/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:25:39 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
Locomotives: |
CSX 5005(AC60CW) CSX 5311(ES44DC) |
Views: |
123 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Wrestling |
Description: |
The new diamonds weren't all that cooperative and needed to be urged. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:23:06 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
80 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Lowering |
Description: |
They've got it close to where they want it. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:23:30 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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Views: |
80 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Minor adjustment |
Description: |
One of the in-place rails had been cut too long, so they bent it out of the way and then cut it to fit. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 10:44:33 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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Views: |
71 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Letting it down |
Description: |
Slowly |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:23:57 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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Views: |
95 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Looks pretty good |
Description: |
The two ends lined up nicely |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:24:40 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
104 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CSXT 3001 |
Description: |
Q146 gets his picture taken |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:22:40 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
CSX 3001(ES44AC-H) CSX 737(ES44AC-H) |
Views: |
201 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Well, maybe not so good. |
Description: |
Getting sixteen pairs to match was obviously a difficult task. They ended up aligning this set and its mate on the other side of the diamond and then tugged and hauled the others into place. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:25:09 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
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71 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
First joint |
Description: |
The first joint bar is bolted in. Sooner or later, it still comes down to guys working with their hands. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:26:24 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
75 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
First wheels |
Description: |
Steel wheels roll into the diamond for the first time. It's been about eight hours to this point. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:27:33 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
65 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Finishing touches |
Description: |
Lots of bolts to check. They're still an hour from letting a train through. I've got to get home, so I'll miss it. |
Photo Date: |
4/22/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:28:05 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
103 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
April 24, 2013 |
Description: |
Two days later, all the big machines have left and two guys are finishing up. They all deserve a hand. |
Photo Date: |
4/24/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:28:32 PM |
Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
Author: |
Jim Ford |
Categories: |
Track |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
122 Comments: 4 |
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