Note the typical auto-dependent thinking in this passage: "Vance Kenney, a partner for Gateway Partners, said the company clocked driving times from the Miller...
Likewise - You cannot be much of an urban transit planner these days without knowing basic sociology. Miller is white; Gary is Black. Not many Miller people...
What are they smoking in Gary? Talk about not making little plans! Okay, so everyone wants a high-level platform. How much can that cost using the existing...
Miller may have a greater percentage of whites than the rest of Gary; but I don't know if whites are the majority. Thirty years ago the area was economically...
Spent some time in Helsinki at the end of last week. This town of 1 Mil has an extensive tram system, a subway with 2 branches and commuter rail as well. Had...
Finland is standard gauge. This was done specifically so as to NOT be same as Russia. Finns have always been afraid of Russia, and when Finnish railroads were...
... As Russia controlled Finland prior to WWI, this would imply that Finland had no railroads before that. More likely, Finland re-gauged immediately following...
Traditionally Finland was a Grand Duchy (GD) of Sweden. After the Napoleonic Wars, Russia took it as a GD, and Sweden was given Norway as a (GD), after it had...
Actually Finnish gage is 5' and equipment is interchanged with Russia on a daily basis (without truck swap). On any given day there are 4000+ pieces of...
A few observations.Miller is a vry heavily used station. A great number of people drive from places like Lake Station and Hobart as well as Miller to the...
... One thing which is refreshing, is that downtown Gary sure seems alive and well when the Gary Southshore Railcats play minor league baseball, at the...
I admit not being to Gary-Broadway in two years; but I didn't see anything that suggested a need for a new station other than the high level platform, et al. ...
I hear there is some traffic up I-65 that feeds Miller Station. I don't know, but good planners certainly would get a count (the famous O-D pairs) before ...
Jim, First, the new Gary-Broadway station opened in the mid-1980s (without looking up the exact date - I was there and probably have slides somewhere in a...
CTA Red Line train derails; 1 injury reported Tribune - June 3, 2008 One person suffered minor injuries when a CTA Red Line train derailed early Tuesday near...
Happy 125th Birthday to the El in Chicago! Wired magazine reports that "the world's first elevated electric railway in the world makes a trial run [on June 2,...
... new ... Miller is indeed heavily patronized, so much so that the main problem is finding a parking space for boarding a midday train on weekdays. Additonal...
I too have always heard that Miller was just a district of Gary. Until WW II, Miller had its own Gary Railways interurban - ran just north of the South Shore....
... Metra treats NICTD like a second class citizen on its trackage. Besides not being informative enough at Randolph Street, here is a typical example of...
Eric, Probably when you know you are on probation with one incident and panic at the prospect of being found violating a rule and losing the only good job you...
True, but if you have been down Broadway, there is no life there. Start at the old abandoned Sheraton hotel. The entire west side of the blick between 6th and...
What foolishness! Ask these grafting pols how a station rebuild for a little commuter railroad is going to revive their defunct city. Note: Right across from...
... stop. Eliminating the stop would reduce running time by only a minute with longer boarding at Broadway. My feel is that as many riders would be lost as...
Since WW II, at one time or another, there have been many stations between Gary and MC - an orange shed at the Mills, the Willard Ave and Michigan Street...
I recently acquired a 1930 Official Guide reprint. And for the Chesapeake & Ohio line from Cincinnati into Chicago, the Guide shows passenger service using...
The IT approaches to the McKinley Bridge on the St. Louis side have been converted to a bike path. That means they won't get demolished! The railroad...
... C&O of Indiana and Erie mains were paired between Griffith and HY Tower, 165th Street in Hammond, until Conrail abandoned the Erie. So C&O of In didn't...
Here'sthe skinny on the gage trivia question. The railways of both countries were built to 5' (1524 mm) gage. After the revolution the Soviets wished all...
