Today, Saturday, August 25th, the SU-99 came through Warwick around noon. Power was two CSX wide cabs with an NS in between. NS nice and clean, CSX units filthy. About 50 or more cars.
Hello does anyone know what the status is for the SU-99 going from Little Ferry to Binghamton as of today? I went to Ridgefield Park last Friday and this past Monday and there was no action at all on that line. I am aware of the partial bridge collapse that occurred back on July 28th a little ways south of the station. The tracks are getting quite rusty down there. Freight cars in that Ridgefield Park/Bogota yard still haven't moved of recent. So I presume they are doing some sort of detour and have been since the incident. I went up to Midland Park this past Tuesday and spoke with an employee at the Hot Dog Caboose. He told me that he had seen a long freight train with 3 or 4 locomotives heading westbound between approximately 6 PM and 6:30 PM just this past Monday. So the SU-99 is apparently running on its own tracks at that location and on northward (Westbound). The only two ways I know of that they could reach that location is:
1) Going up the NJT Main Line to the interchange between NJT and NYS&W in Hawthorne. They would have to access their own tracks coming up track #2 of the NJT Main.
2) Going up the NJT Bergen County line up track #1 and then switching over from that line to their line at Passaic Junction. The only snag with that is they would have to do a reverse move down that interconnect crossing Midland Avenue and then they could proceed forward heading Westbound on their tracks from that point on.
Also are they still on a M-W-F schedule and what time are they getting up to Hawthorne (if NJT Main detour) or Saddlebrook (if NJT BC Detour)?
Would there be any other ways for them to be on their own tracks by the time they go through Midland Park? I can't think of any others and I checked Google maps and Google Satellite quite thoroughly.
Any info at all would be helpful. Thanks.
Blocksignal.