N&W Col. - Sandusky Coal Line

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Harry,
   
  Nope, that is Park Rd in Flint.  Powell Rd was another mile or two north of the Park Rd crossing and just inside Delaware County.  And yes, I recall hiking north to Powell Rd (in my younger days I could do that) and saw where that second track started.  
   
  Right, that second track was in really bad shape and coal trains moved at a near walking pace.  
   
  I have heard they now upgraded and extended that second track all the way to Delaware???
   
  Thanks!
   
  Randy
   
  

NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
      Park Road ?  The road crossing near Worthington was
  Powell Road, five miles north of the PC crossing.
   
  N&W didn't exactly inherit a well-maintained railroad
  in the 1964 merger.  Some in the Maintenance of Way
  Department had found that for lack of joint bolts, PC
  forces  would drive spikes through the joint bars and
  bend them over to keep them in place.
   
  Around 1969, N&W reconfigured the double track on
  the Sandusky District and eastward there were two
  tracks in place from Powell Road to Joyce Avenue.
  Even five years after the merger, N&W was still
  in the process of upgrading the line.  The westward
  main track was OK.  Westbound trains kinda got
  priority because they had to climb a 1% ruling grade
  out of Joyce Avenue.  The eastward main track was in
  such bad shape that it had a permanent 6 MPH "slow"
  order.  Crews en route Sandusky/Bellevue to Joyce Ave.
  anticipated the signal they'd get approaching Powell
  Road.  If the turnout (good for 50 MPH) was lined for
  the east track, they could look forward to the running
  the final 12 miles to Joyce Avenue at 6 MPH.  In 1972, 
  N&W re-laid the eastbound track with 2nd hand rail.  
                                                   Harry Bundy



    
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