Toledo

[tomwhite56]

No matter how hard I try, I can never think of Toledo without hearing Klinger in M*A*S*H saying (in a dream) "Toledo! Toledo!" in his conductor's voice.

At any rate, I've been having a lot of fun with the Toledo Terminal, which of course has for the most part ceased to be.  When I first looked at it I thought, what a convoluted mess, but I did some reading up on it and the reason it looks that way is that it was a major intersection for a lot of different railroads coming in from the east, west, and south.  Why WOULDN'T it be convoluted?

I've been playing the free version to get used to it to see how much I like it and it's pretty interesting tracing out how to get from one point to another.  There are miles and miles of tracks and many entrance points and different ways to get around, and the whole thing basically goes in a big loop around the city.  You should check it out.

[westdetroit]

Thank you Tom! My dad and I both had worked for Conrail, my dad was actually a tower operator in Detroit and I was a trainman. Anyways, yes, as you mentioned Toledo is not for the faint of heart. There's definitely a reason it is only 7 miles wide and about 9 miles high. Back in Conrail days it was a dispatcher's nightmare especially third trick (midnights) with all the van trains working the van site and crew changes downtown plus boats at CP Maumee. 🙂 And, as you mentioned the CSX loops the the south, east and north sides of Toledo (the NS completes the loop on the west side at Nasby (well back in 97 anyways that track is gone nowadays unfortunately). It's definitely one of my favorite territories. 🙂