Thursday, July 8, 2010

Aunt Maude Visits the Mississippi River!!

The rail train arrived today from Maryland.  This evening, crews hit it hard laying the mainline from the Mississippi River to the station at Bureau, IL.

Along with the track gang, the signal maintainers feverishly worked to get temporary code line installed and test wireless capabilities.  After running into severe difficulties with the command system and wireless, the system was operational before night's end.

The first locomotive, Rock Island #367, pulled three cars from the Mississippi River to the bridge at East Rock Island.  Later a call was received by the CEO stating that Aunt Maude has never seen the Mississippi River.  After code issues were corrected, a second train was run utilizing the same power with one coach from Rock Island to the station at Bureau, IL.  One sole passenger was picked up and transported to the Mississippi River. 

Trackwork will continue tomorrow and this weekend.

The CEO applauds the efforts of the dedicated employees of the new Rock Island Railroad.  In a mere 88 days, the CEO sold the former MC Junction Railway assets, acquired all the assets for the Rock Island and began construction.  On day 88, the first train ran!  Awesome job!

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