Trains on the Southern Tier

How many trains are there along the Tier these days and on what routings?

West of Binghamton, maybe 4-6 trains... east of Binghamton, jack squat

NS may be bringing more traffic to the Tier with the "Corridor" projects they are working on these days.........

Courtesy of the BLE........

http://www.ble659.com/CURRENT.htm

Thanks Otto (I guess) for splitting this from the patriot corridor thread.

What about NYS&W freight trains?

SecaucusJunction wrote:West of Binghamton, maybe 4-6 trains...

a post here:

http://jreb.org/ns/index.php?topic=5900.msg16794

Lists 9 trains a day through Gang Mills..
not all go to Binghamton, some go Buffalo-Waverly then down the LV to Allentown.

Scot

West of Binghamton, 6 daily road trains 205/206,12T/13T,38T/39T plus various locals between Gang Mills/Corning area, Elmira, Waverly/Sayre/Ithaca and Binghamton and the coal traffic to Dresden, Ithaca, Johnson City and New England (via D&H/Pan Am). I think the 309/310 trains have been abolished, and that traffic handled on 12/13T. I could be wrong though. One minor correction on the Allentown traffic, which doesnt use the LV from Waverly, but runs to Binghamton and then down the D&H to DuPont, PA and then south to Allentown. As has been mentioned in another thread, Next week a new pair of intermodal/autorack trains are supposed to start running from New England to Buffalo/Chicago. So that will bring the total to 8 road trains. East of Binghamton on the NYSW/CNY portion, not much, I think the SU trains are down to 4 trips per week instead of 6 and usually at night. Lots of stored cars down there too.


Dave

If NS has a derailment and detours are needed, is the tier a viable option these days? As bad as CR was, they at least had the Tier to NJ as a backup route, now it seems CSX is the backup route if something happens to the middle division.
Too bad Port Jervis yard can't be developed into something again, large area untapped, near 84.

scottychaos wrote:

SecaucusJunction wrote:West of Binghamton, maybe 4-6 trains...

a post here:

http://jreb.org/ns/index.php?topic=5900.msg16794

Lists 9 trains a day through Gang Mills..
not all go to Binghamton, some go Buffalo-Waverly then down the LV to Allentown.

Scot

The LV main below Sayre hasn't been operated as a through route in years, most of it's leased out or sold to shortlines these days. The NS trains that still use parts of it use rights on CP from Binghamton.

The NS Southern Tier Mechanical Engineers are looking into if 60 mph is feasible, to make up for the poor conditions over CP trackage past Binghamton. When Conrail controlled it, 50-60 mph was the rule. But since then most of the super elevation has been removed.

Isn't the curve in Endwell at Hooper Road limited to 45 or has that changed?

That curve got bumped up to 50mph a year or 2 ago.