Just got my copy of the March TRAINS. Wow, are you all in for a treat!
I’ve had to register under a new name and password as my former username, pschmidt700, is inoperative today. (Hmm, wonder if it’s subterfuge by those at the big K who don’t like my comments about MR.)
Paul Schmidt
it just proves a point how shortline tracks are called to get freight to the mainlines.a bill in congress right now(mentioned by lc in other posts) can help fix these lines.its not a simple fix or cheap either.Otherwise you have more trucks on our already congested us 24 here in ohio.and they are talking about staring widening by 2006.
stay safe
Joe
It id one of the best TRAINS ever
24 is kind of a dragstrip between here and Toledo I’ll admit, And really is one of the most direct routes from Kansas City to the Detroit vicinity, I drove it this past summerr.
But has some SERIOUS bottlenecks in Quincy and Peoria IL…
If you are no fan of trucks Joe, I have a story you might like, on that same trip, I-70 was washed out near Vail CO, so, they detoured the entire I-70 up and over the Tennessee Pass, via US 24…It was beautiful, but the truckers were having a real bad time of it, And I was driving a heavily loaded rental truck, and pulling a trailer for the first time in my life. If I hadn’t controlled my down hill speed, that trailer would have pushed me on my side in those hair-pin turns, so I played it safe, and still had my hands full…The Semi right behind me was unhappy at losing momentum in the up-n-down-n-up terrain, and started giving me horn blasts at times I just wasn’t willing to go any faster, he got MEGA annoying- - so, on a good 7% uphill slope,…I simply stopped 1/10th mile up a good 2 mile rise, before proceeding up… Last I saw of that truck his cab was bouncing up-n-down under torque bounce like crazy,…didn’t see him again…[banghead]
beautiful country though, well worth stopping to smell the daisy’s
Well like the paper said about 60% of the traffic is truck traffic. and a lot of guys I work with hate the light at 281 and 24.too many trucks running the red light on 24.
stay safe
Joe
Finally recevied my copy!! What is going on!!!
…I too, have just received my copy today. Heard tell of copies being on the newstand for about a week.
Same old Kalmbch distribution trouble keeps happening, I guess.
I just e-mailed Kalmbach about not getting my copy–I purchased mine @ my LHS and it is a great issue. I blamed my mail carrier–I have not been getting a lot of my mail lately. I sure do miss my retired carrier!
I got mine and brought it in from the mailbox. I put it somewhere and have yet to find it. I haven’t got to read one word in it yet. I think the dog is hiding it from me. Yeah, that’s it, the dog is hiding it from me. That’s the ticket. [}:)] [;)]