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<blockquote data-quote="AxeMan - Rick S." data-source="post: 29553" data-attributes="member: 1746">[ATTACH]4770[/ATTACH]Day 210Double Diamond in the RoughShown here is the Rochelle &quot;Double Diamond&quot;. Railway crossings, generally referred to as diamond crossings, occur where one railway line crosses over another.&nbsp; Rochelle, IL. is one of the train-watching hotspots in the Midwest, a place where two main rail lines cross as they head west from Chicago. Here, the two double tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad (bottom right) cross two double tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (bottom left). There are very few places in the nation where this happens. The bottom line for train watchers is that 100-plus freight trains thunder across the diamonds (the shape of the rails at the crossing) in Rochelle every 24 hours, that is an average of a train every 15 minutes. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="AxeMan - Rick S., post: 29553, member: 1746"] [ATTACH]4770._xfImport[/ATTACH] Day 210 Double Diamond in the Rough Shown here is the Rochelle "[I]Double Diamond[/I]". Railway crossings, generally referred to as diamond crossings, occur where one railway line crosses over another. Rochelle, IL. is one of the train-watching hotspots in the Midwest, a place where two main rail lines cross as they head west from Chicago. Here, the two double tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad (bottom right) cross two double tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (bottom left). There are very few places in the nation where this happens. The bottom line for train watchers is that 100-plus freight trains thunder across the diamonds (the shape of the rails at the crossing) in Rochelle every 24 hours, that is an average of a train every 15 minutes. :D [/QUOTE]

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