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EASTERN RAILROAD NEWS
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OCS TO BE OUT AGAIN THIS WEEK
Conail's Operation Lifesaver program will be on the road this week in Indiana and Ohio. On May 12, the OCS will be operating a round trip from Crestline, OH. The trip will take Ohio Officials on a trip through Loudonville, Wooster and Canton before returning from Alliance back to Crestline. On May 13, the Operation Lifesaver program will be operated roundtrip from Indianapolis to Lafayette, IN with intermediate stops at Jamestown and Linden. The OCS-401, 402, and 601 schedules are now posted. -Kevin Burkholder
SD70MAC / SD70 UPDATE
The first Conrail (Norfolk Southern) SD70 2557 is currently under construction at Altoona. This is the first of the units being built to the Norfolk Southern specifications. 2558 and 2559 should be entering the shop in the next week to ten days.
For those that are interested in builder's numbers on locomotives, we bring you the following list of Juniata Locomotive Shop Builder numbers:
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NS TRACK GEOMETRY TRAIN- On June 9, the Norfolk
Southern Track Geometry train will depart Hagerstown, MD for operations
to Harrisburg, PA and south to Perryville, MD. The NS train will
operate on a whirlwind tour of "their" half of the proposed acquisition
property. The train will be powered by a Conrail locomotive, due
to cab signal and LSL requirements, and consist of NS Track Geometry Car
52 (bay window caboose) and passenger car 31. The train is "tentatively"
scheduled to operate as follows:
| Tuesday June 9 | Hagerstown, MD to Harrisburg, PA to Enola Yard; Enola Yard to Perryville, MD and Return |
| Wednesday June 10 | Enola Yard to Bethlehem, PA to Port Reading Jct., NJ; Operate to Morrisville, PA after turning train at Oak Island, NJ |
| Thursday June 11 | Morrisville, PA (via Amtrak) to Columbia; Royalton Branch to Harrisburg to Strawberry Ridge, PA (Buffalo Line) |
| Friday June 12 | Strawberry Ridge to Buffalo, NY |
| Saturday June 13 and Sunday June 14 | Idle at Buffalo, NY |
| Monday June 15 | Buffalo, to Corning, NY to Geneva, NY and return to Corning-Gang Mills Yard |
| Tuesday June 16 | Gang Mills to Sayre, PA then Ithaca Secondary |
| Wednesday June 17 | Waverley, NY to Port Jervis, NY |
| Thursday June 18 | Port Jervis to M&H Jct., PA then to Allentown, PA |
| Friday June 19 | Allentown, PA to CP-Falls, PA to Harrisburg, PA (Harrisburg Line) |
| Saturday June 20 and Sunday June 21 | Idle at Harrisburg, PA |
| Monday June 22 | Harrisburg, PA to Conway, PA (Pittsburgh Line) |
| Tuesday June 23 | Conway to Cleveland-Rockport, OH via Yellow Creek |
| Wednesday June 24 | Cleveland-Rockport, OH to Chicago, IL with stop at Englewood, IL |
| Thursday June 25 | Chicago-Colehour to Hennepin, IN to Kankakee, IL |
| Friday June 26 | Kankakee, IL to NIPSCO to CP-502, IL to Elkhart, IN |
| Saturday June 27 and Sunday June 28 | Idle at Elkhart, IN |
| Monday June 29 | Elkhart, IN to South Anderson, IN and Return |
| Tuesday June 30 | Elkhart, IN to Alliance, OH |
| Wednesday July 1 | Alliance to Cokeburg, OH the to Loveridge, WV |
| Thursday July 2 | Loveridge to MGA-Bailey Mine and to Federal Mine |
| Friday July 3 | MGA-Federal Mine to Conway, PA including Port Perry Branch and Island Connection |
| Saturday July 4 and
Sunday July 5 |
Idle at Conway, PA |
| Monday July 6 | Conway to Ashtabula, OH and Return |
| Tuesday July 7 | Conway to Harrisburg, PA via Pittsburgh Line |
| Wednesday July 8 | Harrisburg, PA to Conway, PA via Conemaugh Line |
| Thursday July 9 | Conway, PA to CP-Mace then to Haselton, OH |
| Friday July 10 | Haselton, OH to Columbus-Buckeye, OH |
| Saturday July 11 and Sunday July 12 | Idle at Columbus-Buckeye, OH |
| Monday July 13 | Columbus-Buckeye, OH to Cincinnati and Return |
| Tuesday July 14 | Columbus-Buckeye, OH to Dickinson, WV |
| Wednesday July 15 | Dickinson, WV to Cornelia, OH and Return |
| Thursday July 16 | Train is returned to NS at Alloy (Deepwater Bridge) |
CSX OFFERS SOLUTION TO GULF CONGESTION
CSX's TransFlo group is offering a new service for rail customers plagued by freight congestion along the Gulf Coast. The service, called New Orleans Short Stop Service, shuttles freight by truck from the Texas Chemical Coast, or any other western origin, to CSX's New Orleans transfer terminal. From there, product is transferred into rail cars for delivery to the shipper's rail-served customers located east of the Mississippi, or to other CSX TransFlo-marketed terminals.
Shippers using this new transportation solution to Gulf Coast congestion can expect to reduce their long-haul trucking expenses, transportation and logistics costs, and capital requirements for additional storage or railcars.
"This new service demonstrates that we're not standing still at CSX," says the TransFlo group's Assistant Vice President, Jim Howarth. "We've heard customers' concerns and we're developing short-term solutions to keep them competitive in their markets." The New Orleans Short Stop Service will be in effect as long as congestion problems persist in the Gulf Coast area.
For more information about New Orleans Short Stop Service, call Tom Piatak at (904)359-4912 or Bill Wittekind at (904)366-5839.
CSX TransFlo markets the services of the nation's largest network of full-service bulk product and warehouse rail transfer facilities, with more than 100 locations in 19 states east of the Mississippi. -CSX Corporation
- 1803 billed to West Chester, Pennsylvania
- 1811 Owego Harford Railway, Owego NY
- 1850 sold to Cayuga Railway and located at Owego-Harford Rwy.
- 1860 sold to Ontario Southland Railway, an industrial locomotive leasing company. Unit to be located at Guelph Junction, (near Campbellville) Ontario as a back-up locomotive to OSRX 505 on the Ontario Southland operated Guelph Junction Railway.
- Genessee Rail-One operating Quebec Gatineau Railway:
- New Brunswick East Coast has acquired the following locomotives from Canadian Pacific Railway:
D&H 175th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
CPR is going to be celebrating the 175th anniversary of the D&H with several Passenger Specials. Four CPR business cars are being delivered to the D&H via Montreal for a May 18 trip to Philadelphia. CPR will be entertaining various politicians and business people on a May 20 trip departing Philadelphia for Scranton, PA. Reportedly there will be an employee outing at Steamtown over the Memorial Day weekend. The train will continue northward to Albany, NY, back to Binghamton, NY before returning north to Saratoga and ultimately Montreal. Several moves will be operated with invited guests and passengers, with nightly dead-head moves also in the itinerary. We will bring you more details as they become available.-Ralph McClive
LOCOMOTIVE LIQUIDATION
With CPR's recent decision
to liquidate the remaining MLW fleet, many of the tired units have been
sold to various shortlines in the US and Canada. Here is where some
of the CPR MLW's are going or have gone:
Purchased RS18u's: 1801, 1816, 1846, 1847, 1848 and C424's: 4212, 4214, 4222, 4223, 4228, 4241, 4242
Note: RS18u was derailed soon after arrival on the property. During rerailing, the locomotive was dropped and the frame broken! 1848 was then stripped for parts.
RS18u's: 1809, 1813, 1814, 1818, 1819, 1821, 1829, 1830, 1834, 1835, 1840, 1841, 1845, 1849, 1851, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1864, 1866, 1867, 1868.
Two of the NBEC RS18's
have been repainted into a unique black and white paint scheme.
Also purchased for parts:
FPA-4 6761, ex-Windsor
and Hantsport 6761 via CP; exx-VIA 6761, nee-CN 6761 (built MLW 10/58 sn
82270); FPA-4 6783, ex-Windsor and Hantsport 6783 via CP; exx-VIA 6783,
nee-CN 6783 (Built MLW 04/59 sn 83161).
The following locomotives
are still on the roster and are stored unserviceable at St. Luc Yard in
Montreal:
RS18u: 1812, 1815, 1824,
1861, and C424s: 4231, 4235, 4243. -Bryce Lee
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