Hello,
Were there customers on the NEC and its branchlines (resp on PRR's hole electrified network), that were supplied directly by electric engines (for example E-33, E-44, GG-1) ?
I think, most freights pulled by electric engines were transfer moves; from one yard to another yard along the corridor.
And the 'last miles' to the customers the freight cars were pulled again by an diesel engine, because the branchlines weren't electrified.
But what's about the real big customers along the corridor, which have its own small yard and a own switcher diesel?
For example the Ford Plant in Metuchen, NJ and the Chrysler Plant in Newark, DE ?
The Chrysler Plant (GoogleMap Link) nowadays for example is supplied daily(?) through Norfolk Southern by its own freight trains (the internet say #12N and #13N) (Picture from Railpictures.net with a NS train in the chrysler yard)
Did they got its freight train in the past by electric engines ?
The electric pulled the train into the customers own yard beside the corrdior tracks, hooked up from the train
and the small switcher distributed the cars (boxcars and autoracks in the case of Chrysler) to its final destination on the Chrysler plant ...
Were there other customers along the Northeast and Keystone Corridor that were supplied by electrics ?
Don't straiten on PRR, whats about PC and Conrail ?
Bye
Were there customers on the NEC and its branchlines (resp on PRR's hole electrified network), that were supplied directly by electric engines (for example E-33, E-44, GG-1) ?
I think, most freights pulled by electric engines were transfer moves; from one yard to another yard along the corridor.
And the 'last miles' to the customers the freight cars were pulled again by an diesel engine, because the branchlines weren't electrified.
But what's about the real big customers along the corridor, which have its own small yard and a own switcher diesel?
For example the Ford Plant in Metuchen, NJ and the Chrysler Plant in Newark, DE ?
The Chrysler Plant (GoogleMap Link) nowadays for example is supplied daily(?) through Norfolk Southern by its own freight trains (the internet say #12N and #13N) (Picture from Railpictures.net with a NS train in the chrysler yard)
Did they got its freight train in the past by electric engines ?
The electric pulled the train into the customers own yard beside the corrdior tracks, hooked up from the train
and the small switcher distributed the cars (boxcars and autoracks in the case of Chrysler) to its final destination on the Chrysler plant ...
Were there other customers along the Northeast and Keystone Corridor that were supplied by electrics ?
Don't straiten on PRR, whats about PC and Conrail ?
Bye