Recent content by Jackamo

Bell’s Brewery Eccentric Café is 2 blocks away from the Kalamazoo, MI station. The locally brewed beer is amazing, they have good food and live music most nights. Pretty nice when your train is running 3 hours late because of NS slow orders.

Several years ago they had to reroute around Memphis when a sinkhole formed next to Central Station. It involved busing people between the station and a grade crossing near Johnston Yard because backing in/out took too much time. Hopefully they remember how to orchestrate it.

The flooding is just south of Cairo right before it crosses the Ohio River. If you go to the NOAA link I posted, you can see a map of where the River Gauge is. Change the view from terrain to map or satellite and you can see the tracks I am talking about. Here is a picture that clearly shows...

I wouldn’t put too much faith on the train returning next week. I was booked to travel the CNO next week so I was in the same boat as many people here. I’ve been checking the NOAA river hydrograph for Cairo, IL. since that’s where the tracks are underwater. I canceled when I saw the river...