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For those of you have had any yearny to shoot the very scenic traget rich environment of the BNSF's Cuba Subdivision which runs between St. Louis and Springfield, Mo. this July will be the time to do so. Starting the 16th of July the Thayer Sub will closed for approximately two weeks for maintenance. Intermodal and general merchandise trains will be detoured over the Cuba Sub and then down the River Sub. The coal trains will be detoured from Lincoln to W. Quincy and then down the river to Memphis. This will mean that the Cuba Sub will have in addition to the three regularly scheduled trains a day each way, and additional eight to twelve trains a day each way. The limiting factor will be the number of crews available to handle the trains and the resulting HogLaws. But this should be the best time to shoot the Cuba Sub since the flood of '93 when we were running upwards of sixteen trains a day each way. Back then, in one twelve hour run east, I met twelve trains before we HogLawed. Then on the westbound trip, I sat at Pacific for over five hours waiting on six eastbounds. So here is a rare chance to plan ahead for all of the upcoming detours running over a scenic and virtually unknown piece of track. Charlie Charlie Dischinger - Somewhere in the Ozarks. Springfield, Missouri ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
