Category: highways
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A very late Amtrak
Bad news for Amtrak travelers on the Southwest Chief means good news for railfans like me. Due to an incident that sidelines the initial locomotive consist, the train had to be towed back to Chicago, where they started it again, 12 hours late. Therefore, instead of going through Kansas overnight, the train would go through…
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2010 and 2002
Two seperate photo batches here. First, the latest photos – The Kennedy Compound had a little accident in the laundry room which caused water to flow down to the basement, I took Depot Caretaker duty on Saturday’s Amtrak 4, and the Midland Railway ran their Labor Day run… oh yeah, some changes involving the new…
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Exploring old highway 50
Back on July 9, one of my fellow road enthusiast friends came up to Kansas. While he was there, he wanted to do some “sightseeing.” Since I happened to have the day off from work, I was happy to oblige. 🙂
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On the Kansas Highways front
On Memorial Day, I took a road trip to explore a couple of roundabouts, as well as parts of the new US 69 freeway in Linn County. As a Consequence of my raodtrip, I’ve also updated the US 69 exit guide to reflect the actual signage out in the field (I wasn’t *that* far off…
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Kansas City Road Meet
Here are the photos from last Saturday’s Kansas City road meet.
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New US 59 now open…
… and I have photos from the new freeway, as well as a couple other highway-related oddities
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Turnpike Bridge is coming down
The KTA has issued a press release. Because of the way the KTA’s site is designed, I shall quote it verbatim. Additional information is now available on the Kansas Turnpike Authority’s upcoming demolition of the original bridge structures across the Kansas River in Lawrence. The steel structures that once carried I-70 traffic across the river…
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Signs of Change
The new signs for US 24 and US 40 are now beginning to make theirappearance on I-70. I managed to get a few shots of the old signs in placealongside their new counterpoints, PLUS the new END! of US 73 at theBonner Springs exit on the Kansas Turnpike. Also: some shots of the new Lone…
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Road Songs….
On the return portion of my recent roadtrip, I cranked up my iPod. Here’s what was playing. Song Artist Album Genre Timestamp The Girl’s Gone Wild Travis Tritt My Honky Tonk History Country 11/23/08 03:23 PM When Somebody Loves You Alan Jackson When Somebody Loves You Country 11/23/08 03:27 PM Waitin’ On A Woman Brad…
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November 2008 Roadtrip
I took a roadtrip to check on the progress of the new US 69 freeway under construction in Linn County. Nothing special, I took 69 down to the north end of the existing southern freeway, then turned east on the back roads to US 71, returning home via 71. On the way to 71, I…