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EASTERN RAILROAD NEWS
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STEAMTOWN WEEKEND NOTE: There will be a night photo session at Steamtown National Historic Site on Sunday evening, May 24, 1998, at 8:00 p.m. In honor of Memorial Day weekend, the theme will be Railroads and the Military. Scenes will include BLW 0-6-0 26 switching two PRR boxcars that are being unloaded into military vehicles and soldiers boarding a troop train. There will also be a set-up featuring the Big Boy in a scene based on a 1940s photo of two soldiers giving the "V" victory sign to the engineer.
Tickets are $15 and will be available at the gate. Lumedyne lighting will be provided by Steve Barry, Fred Jones, Frank Etzel, Kermit Geary and Joe Calisi.
OFFICE CAR SPECIAL
Conrail's second Office Car Special to depart Toledo, OH will leave as OCS-502 bound for Philadelphia, PA. After returning the passengers to Philly, the train will go back to Altoona. OCS-502 is powered by E8A 4020 with business cars 1 and 5. You can get to the schedule by clicking on the link at the top of the page. -Kevin Burkholder
E8A WESTBOUND
Pennsylvania Railroad-painted E8A 5898, formerly on the property of the Reading & Northern, has been purchased by St. Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railroad in Delta, Missouri. The unit is being shipped west from Reading on Conrail train ALPI-9F. Train will continue via the Indianapolis Line to a UP interchange at Salem.
SD70MAC TRACK
Today, the last pair of SD70MAC's delivered have been placed in local service. Here is where they line up:
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Blacksville #2 Mine, WV |
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Erie, PA |
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Blacksville #2 Mine, WV |
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Erie, PA |
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Indianapolis, IN |
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Indianapolis, IN |
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Cleveland, OH |
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Cleveland, OH |
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Sterling, MI |
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Sterling, MI |
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Clairton, PA |
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Clairton, PA |
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OFFICE CAR SPECIALS ON TAP
As we told you last week, CPR will be operating several passenger trains in honor of the D&H Railroad's 175th Anniversary, CPR is sending Beaver Logo SD40-2 5647 to assist D&H-painted 7309 on a string of Employee Appreciation Passenger Specials. CPR will also be using the train to host Norfolk Southern officials next week for a trip to Albany, NY. The train consist will include four CPR Business Cars, two Green Mountain Railway passenger cars, and four NYS&W business cars. Two legs of the trip will be operated between Dupont Jct. on the Reading & Northern and Conrail to and from the Philadelphia-30th Street Amtrak station. The southbound trip will carry Conrail symbol OCS-701 and the northbound trip will carry OCS-702. The trips kick off tonight, May 20 with a run from Binghamton to Philadelphia. On May 22, the train departs Philadelphia for Scranton where the train will be tied down at Steamtown all day on May 23. You can see the full schedule by clicking on the link at the top of the page. -Mike Collins, Kevin Burkholder
PAINT VARIATION
CPR has introduced a variation to the Golden Beaver scheme. In Toronto today, SD40-2 5753 was sighted in the new beaver scheme, with the frame stripe being a dashed white line. This dashed line is similar to the "SOO" CP Rail covered hoppers with the dashed red line. -Gary Zuters
LABOR RELATIONS DIRECTOR NAMED
Norfolk Southern Corporation announced that Anthony J. Licate, formerly senior director Labor Relations for Conrail, has joined Norfolk Southern as director Labor Relations, based at Norfolk.
Licate, a 19-year Conrail employee, started as a mechanical superintendent and joined the Labor Relations department as an assistant manager in 1983, rising to positions of increasing responsibility. He has a combined 33 years of railroad service, having worked for Chicago and Northwestern and Penn Central, a Conrail predecessor line.
Licate earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Notre Dame and in June expects to complete requirements for a master's degree at Drexel University. -Norfolk Southern
GENERAL MANAGER APPOINTED
CSX Transportation Inc. (CSXT) announced that Edward D. Jenkins has been named general manager-Detroit Service Lane. The appointment is effective immediately.
Jenkins will lead CSXT's Detroit Service Lane, which will include operations in the Detroit Shared Asset Area, one of the key locations in the joint acquisition of Conrail by CSX and Norfolk Southern Corporation. Closely linked with CSXT's Automotive Business Unit, Jenkins also will act as the operations liaison between the railroad and the automotive manufacturers located primarily in Detroit. He will report to Clarence W. Gooden, vice president-transportation field operations.
Headquartered in Livonia,
Mich., a suburb of Detroit, the service lane stretches from Toledo, Ohio,
to Bay City, Mich., and from Blenheim, Ontario, Canada, to Manistee, Mich.
When the Conrail transaction is complete, the
service lane will extend
to Columbus and include Marysville, Ohio.
Service lanes are an innovative,
transportation management structure that link field operations with dedicated,
centralized, cross-functional teams responsible for activities such as
locomotive crew calling, customer service
and asset utilization
by enabling greater coordination of work and resources such as locomotives,
crews and rail cars.
Throughout his 14-year career, Jenkins has held numerous transportation planning positions. He played a key role in developing CSX's application to the Surface Transportation Board in the Conrail transaction and its plan for the Conrail Shared Area Operations.
Jenkins earned his bachelor's degree at Virginia Polytech Institute and State University and his master's degree in business administration at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.-CSX Corporation
- Sunday, May 24th: Extra South, 105, 117, 123, 935 (WPB local).
- Monday, May 25th: 105, 204, 208, 216, 220, 226, 98, 343, Unit Train( Miami-Cocoa, Cocoa-Miami), 905 Bunnell Turn, 910 Dorena Turn, 915 Hall Turn, 920 Pineda Turn, 925 328 Turn, 945 WPB Switcher, 950 WPB 1500 Switcher, 955 Little River Turn, 960 Boca Local, 965 Lauderdale Switcher, 970 Contract Job, 980 Palm Beach Turn.
- Tuesday May 26th: 119, 123, 202, 210.
HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
The following FEC trains
will be annulled for the Memorial Day Holiday:
GE REPORT
The TFM AC4400CW's have begun shipping. The units are being shipped by Norfolk Southern to Kansas City, where KCSI will take delivery. The first group, TFM 2601, 2602, 2606, 2603, 2600, 2605 and 2604 were all facing west on the NS interchange after being delivered by EEC 22 at approximately 15:00 ET. Builder Numbers are 50576-50582 in order on 2600-2606, all built May 1998.
Other units on hand at GE-Erie were the CP AC4400CW 8501 fully painted but wearing radial trucks marked "CSX 600". TFM 2608 was also outdoors, along with other new C44-9W's 4762 and 4763 for BNSF. A single NS C40-9W 9234 in grey primer paint was also complete minus the paint.-Bill Miller
We are readying the new site and preparing for our "magazine" format for a June 1 debut. We are currently still looking for a few individuals to round out the debut. We are in need of columnists from Indiana, Illinois, Florida and a few others. We are also beginning to accept more photos/slides of news events and feature material. If you are interested in joining the ERN staff or contributing feature material on a gratis basis (for now!), please contact Kevin Burkholder at ern-kevin@juno.com or KBurkholder@psghs.edu (NOTE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS) for more details.
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