Top speed was achieved by a train engineer East of Evansville; a Dakota 400 E8 w small freight reached 117 mp h .
Back when they tore the doubletrack out, they compromised the roadbed so that today, the main line leans to one side.
Speed to evansville is 10 mph, and 4 axles only.
A derailment in 2008 at the landmark COOP track loop, along the rotten , sagging main ,prompted some new ties and ballast. This fixed the " leaning train".
UP seems to insist on keeping the line, but doesn't use it ; right now there are miles of covered hoppers stored from Downtown Evansville , Evansville Jct, (the old Beloit line leg of the wye ) old sections of the Doubletrack , to the far end of the UP harvard sub, just south of Brooklyn. There are also some a the Leyden siding , halfway to janesville. WSOR needs to take over the rest of this disaster line ...
Brooklyn is still overgrown with no signs of progress.
Netherwood has 12" LED lights, and new jet black targets. (the targets all along this line were brush painted with gold paint, and very faded)
It also has two griswold mechanical bells.
A second griswold bell was added in the upgrade.
There is also a new gated crossing in Oregon with 4 tracks, right where the trains back into lycon.
Perry Parkway is a different story...
Its protected by one safetran cantilever, and a cross buck.
The second cantilever from there is Laying in the words near netherwood road , as its been for almost 10 years. The line/ signal at perry parkway is still in disrepair .
When I looked down the line , the track leading towards the downtown Oregon bridge was NOT looking quite right.
Very odd , how this CNW main approaches the bridge at a wrong angle, to cross it requiring a sharp curve . Its like the bridge is clocked a little over like a turntable and kinked the track.
Additionally, the grade in this bridge approach was highly excessive , like a pathetic grade that is impassible .
Im really interested in the bizarre trackwork there, nothing like that would fly on the CNW.
