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UP Train LSI55 01 comes across Floodway Ditch on the UP Sikeston Sub. just south (compass west) of Morehouse as it heads towards Highway 60 at 25 mph. It sure makes quite a sight and sound on the jointed rail.
At the time, the UP was planning on making this line a southbound bypass route between Rockview, MO and Dexter to relieve congestion on the former SSW, which is single track with sidings.
A tie gang came through, new CWR was dropped, and new tie plates were laid out.
After political and public opposition from the city of Sikeston, the plans were scrapped and the former Cotton Belt was double tracked instead.
A rail train came back by and picked up all the new rail, and the magnets came for the tie plates.
Today this is all just an empty ROW, and the bridge has been removed. The line was torn out in 2010 and 2011 and cut back just west of this point, which ironically serves a new customer, a grain elevator.
It's hard to believe how fast the high expectations of this line were shattered, but not all was lost in the end.
Locomotives: UP 548, UP 778
6-1-06
Morehouse, MO
RJ Corman is busy installing brand new CWR on the east end of the former Pan Am. A wheeled excavator, which is utilized to position the rail exactly in place on the ties behind the puller machines, sits just ahead of the rail welding truck.
With a unique lashup consisting of (supposedly) the last Dash 9 on CSX, and CSXT 9280, the only YN3 painted C40-8 on the roster, U072 with 37x3 from Mattawamkeag, ME barrels up the small hump at Winn, ME, around MP6 of the Waterville Subdivision. New CWR has been laid throughout the area, following the purchase of Pan-Am, and here it’s already been installed, upping the speed from 10mph to 25, and in places 40. It’s not the same as it used to be.