Topeka Sub Track Work Window 5-5 thru 6-22

On May 5th there will be a tie gang curfew on the Topeka Sub until approximately June 22nd. The basics are:

• Project location is Topeka Sub MP 89.85 to MP 166.47
• Total Ties to install: 102,027
• Switch ties: 2,397
• 9' ties: 91
• Curfew: 0500 - 1400 Daily

• We will be detouring 2 trains during this time from Hutchinson to Kansas City. The ZCIBP and ZCIG4. A pool has been set up and currently have 6 engineers qualified and will get around 4-5 conductors a trip also. The pool will have 12 engineers and 12 conductors with no extra board. All vacancies will be covered from the pool. In order to get everyone qualified we will have to utilize the top 6 engineers to run with the unqualified crews until we complete everyone. 
  
  Due to the nature of the work, there will definitely be unconventional operation of trains for the entire territory. I anticipate =TL to be of a concern as we will be tying trains down going into the curfew and then ordering up crews to get out of the curfew on a daily basis. I ask that you bear with us during this track work as it will only benefit our railroad in the end with increasing the trains speeds on the Topeka Sub. 
  
  In the next few days I will make up a 1-pager to put into the crew rooms that spell out the track work. If you have additional information you would like me to put on it, let me know. It will basically be what I have wrote above.