Hi all, I'm a newbie here interested in the Chicago to Aurora triple track mainline that BNSF owns (and Metra operates their commuter service on). Anyone have the trackplan or a link to where I can get a trackplan outline of the route? I want to better understand the switching possibilities to handle express trains like they do for an upcoming N Scale NTrak project.
There was an excellent article about the race track in Trains magazine, some time ago, also a videotape is available of the route. Not sure I still have the magazine, but will have a look. Maybe someone else can help.
I have some info on that and can help you...I am not able to get the info at the moment as I am at School. please contact me at bn9900@yahoo.com and I will help you as much as I can. I will try to post the info I have in the next couple of days. or E-mail it to you. I used to live on that line and is my passion. Hope to talk to you soon [ 22 January 2002: Message edited by: BN9900 ]
Bob...What era are you doing? In the 70s Aurora was changed as far as track layout goes.... so depending on when you are modeling there is a major difference in what the track set up is.
Bob, Here is a link that may be what you're looking for.... http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/chirailfan/mmbnsf.html Enjoy!
Many thanks for the welcome and for all of the information. The link from Doug provided the basics of what I was looking for, and bn9900 supplied a lot of info as well. I look forward to following further discussions here.
