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Re: West Side Freight Line/St. John's Terminal

 by BR&P ¦  Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:06 am ¦  Forum: New York Central ¦  Topic: West Side Freight Line/St. John's Terminal ¦  Replies: 9 ¦  Views: 2442

There at least used to be (I couldn't find it the last time I was in New York) a "stuffed and mounted" NYCRR switcher (an Alco S1? S2? S4?) in the former 72nd Street yard, at about 70th Street, a hundred feet or so from the Hudson River and closer than that to the Amtrak line. I had forgo...

Gotta love it. Guy joins the forum, asks a detailed question, several members provide helpful info - and a month later we have heard nothing more from the OP. :( Oh well.....hopefully we provided the info he was after.

Re: Visibility

 by BR&P ¦  Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:55 pm ¦  Forum: General Discussion: Locomotives, Rolling Stock, and Equipment ¦  Topic: Visibility  ¦  Replies: 6 ¦  Views: 991

selfkumquats wrote:I think that when driving a engine it is important to observe signals.
Fixed it for you. Doesn't matter what type of engine, which direction, what kind of weather or anything else. If you are governed by signals, you durn sure better observe them.

Re: West Side Freight Line/St. John's Terminal

 by BR&P ¦  Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:56 pm ¦  Forum: New York Central ¦  Topic: West Side Freight Line/St. John's Terminal ¦  Replies: 9 ¦  Views: 2442

Now to dress it up with a stuffed-and-mounted old NYC switcher and wooden caboose on display. :-D

Re: Where did everybody go?

 by BR&P ¦  Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:39 am ¦  Forum: Livonia, Avon, & Lakeville Family (LAL, BH, WNYP) ¦  Topic: Where did everybody go? ¦  Replies: 6 ¦  Views: 845

Good to hear it's found a home.

Re: Where did everybody go?

 by BR&P ¦  Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:15 pm ¦  Forum: Livonia, Avon, & Lakeville Family (LAL, BH, WNYP) ¦  Topic: Where did everybody go? ¦  Replies: 6 ¦  Views: 845

It's my understanding almost everything on OMID was scrapped - locos (except for the 2 noted above), plow, flanger, side dump, boxcars, MW equipment, whatever else they had. Have not had confirmation but multiple reports to that effect. Interesting, 408/40 was built in 1962 IIRC, spent 17 years on N...

Re: Lower Saucon (Bethlehem), PA Derailment, 3/2/24

 by BR&P ¦  Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:55 pm ¦  Forum: Norfolk Southern ¦  Topic: Lower Saucon (Bethlehem), PA Derailment, 3/2/24 ¦  Replies: 32 ¦  Views: 2601

I thought PTC was supposed to make collisions like this impossible Once the first 2 trains collided --for whatever reason -- and fouled the adjacent track, PTC could not have prevented the sideswipe of the wreckage if the 3rd train had come along soon enough afterward. Why didn't PTC prevent the re...

Re: ADM/Great Northern silos-Buffalo

 by BR&P ¦  Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:01 pm ¦  Forum: New York State Railfan ¦  Topic: ADM/Great Northern silos-Buffalo ¦  Replies: 47 ¦  Views: 7507

Sic transit gloria mundi

Re: Bridge over long-abandoned line causes problems

 by BR&P ¦  Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:59 pm ¦  Forum: New York State Railfan ¦  Topic: Bridge over long-abandoned line causes problems ¦  Replies: 18 ¦  Views: 2294

Frankly, if that is a highway bridge, why would a Carrier be responsible for it? It's not a RR bridge and besides that track is long gone during ConJob. It seems there are conflicting opinions on what various laws do and don't require. It's not surprising that one law would suggest it's totally the...

Here's a thread on this site which discusses the various different arrangements. It could be the unit I'm thinking of had 16-pin cables. https://www.railroad.net/mu-pin-arrangement-t87831.html

Not all locos used 27-pin, had an SW9 which I believe had fewer pins. Never paid attention because we didn't have anything to MU it WITH. But be aware the units you are interested in may have had something other than 27-pin. I have an EMD Operating Manual #2313, for SW8 and SW9, and for TR5 and TR6....

Re: Bridge over long-abandoned line causes problems

 by BR&P ¦  Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:21 am ¦  Forum: New York State Railfan ¦  Topic: Bridge over long-abandoned line causes problems ¦  Replies: 18 ¦  Views: 2294

One critical question would be whether there is currently a non-rail use of that ROW, for which CSX is deriving revenue. Examples would be buried fiber optic lines or a pipeline. With the direction the nation's industrial base is going, there would seem to be little need for CSX to keep the ROW to p...

Re: Bridge over long-abandoned line causes problems

 by BR&P ¦  Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:32 am ¦  Forum: New York State Railfan ¦  Topic: Bridge over long-abandoned line causes problems ¦  Replies: 18 ¦  Views: 2294

So now the lawyers can argue whether Conrail transferred that liability to CSX with the property, or if there was somehow some clause retaining that issue for CR, or if somehow it's the state's problem after all. Face it - if there was a simple, black-and-white answer. it would have been decided by ...

Re: Bridge over long-abandoned line causes problems

 by BR&P ¦  Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:19 am ¦  Forum: New York State Railfan ¦  Topic: Bridge over long-abandoned line causes problems ¦  Replies: 18 ¦  Views: 2294

Agreed. At the time they severed the line, both Kodak and Rochester Gas & Electric were still receiving coal. They may have been concerned that if the entire line was ever sold, it could provide access to Rochester for Norfolk Southern or whoever. By removing the segment with no on-line customer...

Re: Uinta Basin Railway

 by BR&P ¦  Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:44 pm ¦  Forum: General Discussion: Short Lines, Industrials, and Military ¦  Topic: Uinta Basin Railway ¦  Replies: 4 ¦  Views: 1239

“It’s a victory for the Colorado River and nearby communities that would be threatened by oil train accidents and spills, and for residents of the Gulf Coast, where billions of gallons of oil would be refined,” said Ted Zukoski, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, one of several gro...

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