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    Container Ship strikes and collapses Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge

    After clearing the wreckage the harbor can reopen to maritime traffic while what type of bridge will be constructed is planned - then there will be times of traffic closing while a main span is put back into place. Being in Minnesota (Minneapolis) when the 35W bridge went down a few years back...
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    Dreamstar overnight train between San Francisco and Los Angeles?

    So you would have a night time Coast Starlight with moon light views of the coast ? Stops - Salinas (Monterey) - San Luis Obispo - Santa Barbara - others ? Would it be competitive with air travel between the points SFO (OAK-SJC-BUR-ONT-SNA-LGB) LAX ? Deluxe sleeper accommodations would have...
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    Chicago Union Station discussion

    A picture says a Great deal about the Great Hall - reference LINK: https://chicagounionstation.com/information/station-map Browse around - although realize the information maybe dated - Which brings up the subject about what entrances are presently open for access to the Great Hall. I...
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    Chicago Union Station discussion

    Arrived after 11 pm (ole reliable late number 8) everyone hustled off the train through the south concourse - checked baggage - and up onto Canal Street and left to ones own resources ! It felt like a rapid evacuation of a morgue in a plague condition ! Embarrassing enough I needed to use the...
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    Chicago Union Station discussion

    OK just a casual observation - - - - - It is a zoo and then some at CUS. Until you have navigated and negotiated the maze a few times it would seem to be an impossible dream that someone would design this abomination. Anyway so much for that diatribe - - - Reference this Google LINK...
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    St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago (TCMC) second daily service

    Excellent history to resurrect the old train numbers !!!!! Using the LINK I posted earlier train numbers 9 & 10 are still open for assignment. Interesting to note that train #9 was scheduled to leave CHI 11:40 am arrive MSP 8:35 pm ----- 7 hours and 55 minutes Today's #7 scheduled to leave...
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    St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago (TCMC) second daily service

    Just a WAG ? Reference this LINK: http://kevinkorell.com/btn/numt0001.htm There is already a 337 and 338 between Chicago-Milwaukee-Chicago An extension of that existing route - TCMC The existing Chicago Milwaukee could use 337 - 300 hundred series from the Hiawatha Chicago Milwaukee the 7 a...
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    St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago (TCMC) second daily service

    I am curious as to what kind of cars are going to be used on that 2nd train ( TCMC) --- Since the trips both directions will be for the most part in daylight hours sleepers would not be a prime concern --- But then maybe a viewliner or 2 ? Hoping to see a consist/configuration of coaches cafe...
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    St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago (TCMC) second daily service

    SPUD has two thru tracks serviced by only one platform - a disaster of sorts for handling two trains in such tight space ! That tight space is also amplified by the single access to that one platform boarding through the Great Hall - - - Stairs - Escalators - and one Elevator for those with...
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    Continuing saga of Alaska Air 737 Max plug door blowout incedent

    I worked in the aviation industry for 30 years and have seen aircraft come and go without minor hatch covers - - - Those covers being water and lav access points. These covers not secured just flop in the air flow - until - the forces exceed the nuts bolts and sheet metal holding them to the air...
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    St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago (TCMC) second daily service

    Yes all of this is true - except for only one track (the CP/Milwaukee Short Line) going up the grade to the Commercial Rail Transfer yard to the junction with the BNSF. The other route is a back-ended merge with the Division St WYE traffic for transit thru the Midway subdivisions of both the CP...
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    St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago (TCMC) second daily service

    I too had heard a rumor as such about returning restoring the Midway depot location but as I had noted before - Amtrak to move its operation to the Midway depot location. This location has been brought up time and time again to be used again as a joint operation between the Twin Cities...
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    St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago (TCMC) second daily service

    At SPUD there is the very rare possibility of both Amtrak #7 (late night 11pm) and #8 (early morning 8-9 am) each being delayed to have both trains occupying the 2 available thru tracks causing any third train from using these 2 tracks. Extremely very rare - not that it has not happened before...
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    St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago (TCMC) second daily service

    I don't recall the past SPUD trackage (* see later comment) but this Google map Link: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9467552,-93.0851925,119m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu shows 3 tracks under the head house - 2 are thru tracks which Amtrak uses That 3rd dead end track I believe was planned for...
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    St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago (TCMC) second daily service

    I really don't care what it is called named or its distinction with a geographic area - - - - - JUST GET THE DARN THING ON THE RAILS AND RUNNING !
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