Portsmouth Branch Activity

[p42thedowneaster]

Interesting to hear that there are active railroads running along pipelines. I would certainly accept that there would be crossings, but the idea of having them share an row seems like it could have risks. I'm not sure I would want to run the Jordan spreader unless I knew exactly where the pipe was!
Speaking of which check out these cool pics of a spreader and RS3 being used in Epping in the mid 1960s courtesy of "Gil Ford"
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Photo 2 is on the old WN&P (Fremont Branch) not sure about #1, could be either the Portsmouth or Fremont.

[Jonathan603]

DO-1 headed up to Rockingham at 5:20 with 11 empties. I went to Depot Road with my son to see if I could catch it but did not get there in time. I saw it in the distance with my telephoto but it was just sat there around 6:30. It was there for at least half an hour. I headed back to Rockingham but could only see it sat on the track not moving again. Any ideas why? Presumably it eventually made it to Rockingham to tie down. Picture below.

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[BM6569]

Track looks decent compared to past years

[newpylong]

First Highliner carload in a while?

[MEC407]

Interesting to hear that there are active railroads running along pipelines. I would certainly accept that there would be crossings, but the idea of having them share an row seems like it could have risks.

There is a gasoline pipeline within the right-of-way of one of Union Pacific's (formerly Southern Pacific) mainlines. In the late '80s there was an incident that ended in dramatic and tragic consequences:

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[Jonathan603]

Caught DO-1 at Depot Road today heading towards Emery with only covered hoppers. Which customer are they for and what do they contain?

[ereuter]

Plastic pellets for Tyco.

[Jonathan603]

Ah nice. Big delivery for Tyco as there were 6 covered hoppers heading down. 515 was at the Yard this evening.

[Jonathan603]

Have heard some chatter about track work on the Portsmouth branch the last few days. I saw a couple of maintenance work vehicles on the branch line at Rockingham yesterday and saw this heading past Depot road towards Emery today on my way to work. I noticed at the weekend that nothing has happened since they removed the brush from the stretch of track in Newington that crosses Patterson Lane. I wonder if they are doing anything down there?

Also, does anyone know what is at MP P8? I have heard a few radio transmissions between Emery and MP P8 the last few days?

Video from this morning: https://youtu.be/yMzpBE7fL9c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[newpylong]

Highliner is right around that MP if I remember correctly.

[central.vermont]

Well tonight's outbound had the 515 dragging 20 empties!! Train rundown was 3 Fish, 3 Boise, 3 Tyco, 1 empty Ballast, 9 Boise and 1 Tyco. Caught them on their way out and between Bayside Rd and Great Bay Rd they stalled. Eventually they were able to get it moving again but it took most of twenty minutes to go about 4 car lengths!!
They did make it to the jct and went off duty with the train tied down on the pads at about 1700.

Jon

[Jonathan603]

A huge length for the Portsmouth branch! I saw it last night at Rockingham on our way out to dinner. I drove my son down there to see it but but ended up confusing the crew who thought their cab had arrived... oops!

[Jonathan603]

Derailment over at high liner. One of the fish cars has two wheels off the track.

[b&m 1566]

Any updates or pictures of the track rehab for Sea 3?

[Jonathan603]

Haven't seen any progress. Do we know for sure that it is happening?

Here are a couple of pictures of Pan Am working on the derailment today. It was the middle car of three over on the Highliner spur just short of the crossing.

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