Good news:
… and they missed the obvious - most of that railroad has not been BNSF owned for years. OPPD owns it and has contracted Maintenance out for years.
Division of Ownership is the switch at Pioneers Blvd & Neb Rte 2 (Old State Pen Site)… The newsworkers’ site for the botched/linked story is about a mile into the OPPD owned railroad corridor.
Somewhere up there Mookie is having a giggle fit - She and Driver did not live that far from here.
MC, do you remember whether this was thee track that passed by the restaurant near where we first met everyone? I know that was south of Mookie.
I also got a kick out of your giggle-fits in Heaven comment, especially when I read the article in connction with this reopening. One paragraph in the article read, “Christ isn’t the only one worried.”
In Lincoln, this crossing where the tracks cross two major streets diagonally will be fun with a long, slow-moving coal train. There are crossing gates, but I imagine there will have to be some way all the traffic lights turn red when the gates come down.
Carl: Suspect you were about four miles north by two miles east.
The line this thing connects to in Lincoln goes on south through Beatrice and on to St. Joseph MO…
Miss the Mook!