Loop de' Loop
This 14.6 mile railroad line, known as the "Savatran Rail Spur", was completed from Delafield (near McLeansboro) through Macedonia, Illinois in 2011. It terminates with a loading loop north of the Akin Junction on CN's existing Edgewood Cutoff line.
The Savatran train of empty hoppers are about a 1/4 the way down the branch to the Sugar Camp Mine where it will run through the loading loop for another load of coal. It will return east in the night across the Evansville Western Railway and head down another spur to the generating plant at Abee, Indiana where again it runs around the big circle to feed the giant electric monster. And the process continues......non stop. The Evansville Western participates also in this short haul as part of the railroads bread and butter making them a really big short line.
Loop de' Loop
This 14.6 mile railroad line, known as the "Savatran Rail Spur", was completed from Delafield (near McLeansboro) through Macedonia, Illinois in 2011. It terminates with a loading loop north of the Akin Junction on CN's existing Edgewood Cutoff line.
The Savatran train of empty hoppers are about a 1/4 the way down the branch to the Sugar Camp Mine where it will run through the loading loop for another load of coal. It will return east in the night across the Evansville Western Railway and head down another spur to the generating plant at Abee, Indiana where again it runs around the big circle to feed the giant electric monster. And the process continues......non stop. The Evansville Western participates also in this short haul as part of the railroads bread and butter making them a really big short line.