Amtrak Trains Fight to Go First

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3. That's a great post.

Thanks for the NS track chart.

Here's a CSX Baltimore Division TT from 2005. It can also be found at multimodalways.org, but I've always retrieved it from the Johns Hopkins site.

The part of the B&O with the Pinkerton Tunnel still shows it as single track in 2005. Go to page 48 and head west from Viaduct Junction. I used to spend a lot of time at Sandpatch taking pictures of trains. I never did get back to those two tunnels.

One afternoon back in 1977 or 1978, maybe, I spent some time in the tower at Confluence. A few years later, a train derailed passing that tower. It knocked down the tower, killing the operator on duty.



As you know, coal traffic is way down on NS, this year compared to last. All the other coal haulers too, I'm sure.

Thanks again for the great post.