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Amtrak trains from Michigan to Chicago to stop service for 5 days [View all]
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Amtrak trains from Michigan to Chicago to stop service for 5 days
Kara Berg
The Detroit News
Amtrak routes between Chicago and Pontiac and Chicago and Port Huron will be shut down from Sept. 15 to Sept. 19 as crews dismantle two defunct coaling towers along the routes.
The towers, near Michigan City, Ind. and Augusta, Mich., are above the tracks for passenger trains that take riders between Chicago and Port Huron and Chicago and Pontiac, according to Amtrak.
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Coaling towers were used to load coal as fuel into trains, letting the coal drop from the towers into the tenders of the train so it did not have to stop to refuel. … Trains haven't used coal for power for almost 70 years, [Amtrak senior public relations manager Marc Magliari] said, but the coaling towers remain standing above the Amtrak rails. The structures serve no purpose now that coal isn't used, he said, so they should be removed before they come down in another way.
"It is (as) if an obsolete TV antenna mast was over your home: it should be removed in a controlled fashion with proper protections before it comes down otherwise," Magliari said.
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kberg@detroitnews.com
Kara Berg
The Detroit News
Amtrak routes between Chicago and Pontiac and Chicago and Port Huron will be shut down from Sept. 15 to Sept. 19 as crews dismantle two defunct coaling towers along the routes.
The towers, near Michigan City, Ind. and Augusta, Mich., are above the tracks for passenger trains that take riders between Chicago and Port Huron and Chicago and Pontiac, according to Amtrak.
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Coaling towers were used to load coal as fuel into trains, letting the coal drop from the towers into the tenders of the train so it did not have to stop to refuel. … Trains haven't used coal for power for almost 70 years, [Amtrak senior public relations manager Marc Magliari] said, but the coaling towers remain standing above the Amtrak rails. The structures serve no purpose now that coal isn't used, he said, so they should be removed before they come down in another way.
"It is (as) if an obsolete TV antenna mast was over your home: it should be removed in a controlled fashion with proper protections before it comes down otherwise," Magliari said.
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kberg@detroitnews.com
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