47 minutes ago, Cleburger said:

 

Probably true--but I'm also told by the boating community that it's gotten worse in recent years mostly due to bridge orders coming from a centralized dispatch in Michigan.   There are times when an hour goes by with no train, and they are sitting there inside waiting.  

 

Yes, the dispatcher is in Dearborn, Mich., but it's more complicated than that. The change is the result of that and other busy railroad corridors being governed by a new, federally mandated rail traffic management system called Positive Train Control. It's a computer-aided dispatching program that interacts with all trains on an affected rail corridor. It's possible that certain "windows" in the corridor's train schedule were built into the software program to allow for the bridge to be raised so river shipping traffic can proceed. So in some respects, the dispatcher doesn't have full control over the rail traffic either.

 

42 minutes ago, ink said:

Can you construct the cut-off channel, but still leave the meander (creating an island or peninsula connected by a smaller filled-in area)?

 

How's this?

And maybe they could relocate the Mather somewhere in the new, unused portion of the river.  I don't like it being docked at North Coast harbor - it takes up too much space and blocks lake views.

 

Edited May 17, 20214 yr by skiwest