B727 on the NEC 1/24

hey im listening to the mainline dispatcher for Amtrak (160.9200) and B727 is switching out Forte fiber in Attleboro, its 12:56 right now, and now my question is, what is CSX B727 doing in Attleboro??? CSX conductor, any help?

They were in New Bedford Tuesday (late morning/noon) interchanging
with BCLR. Later that afternoon, I heard them on the scanner at
Cotely Jct getting an EC-1 back to Middleboro. It was very late for
them, so they probably were doing additional work around Taunton.

Dave

i guess they were doing it so B726 doesn't have as much work tonight, they came out of Forte Fiber with 10 cars to go back onto the Middleboro Secondary at BORO interlocking

B726 derailed 3 out of 4 engines @ Forte-Fibre around 1130pm Tuesday night. B726's crew was transported back to Middleboro and then B727's crew was brought up to Forte-Fibre in the morning to do the re-railing. Amtrak "maintains" the lead to Forte-Fibre since it goes off Track #4 of their main-line, but always blames us. The last time B726 put 2 loco's on the ground there (only about six months ago or so), Amtrak tried accusing the crew of not having the derail in the non-derailing position. Now here's two things wrong with that accusation: #1) The derail, like all other sidings on the NorthEast Corridor, is a Pipe-Connected derail, which drops when the switch is reversed and goes back to the derailing position when the switch is restored normal for the main-line. #2) Even if the derail was up somehow, how come the middle two engines derailed but not the ones on each end?!?!?!? Duh!! Wide gauge again fellas.

BTW MBTA F40: B733 delivered the first car to West Mansfield's newest customer shortly after midnight the same night. The old Zayre's Building is now being used by Milton Distribution Co., which will be getting regular rail service.

CSX Conductor wrote:BTW MBTA F40: B733 delivered the first car to West Mansfield's newest customer shortly after midnight the same night. The old Zayre's Building is now being used by Milton Distribution Co., which will be getting regular rail service.

how many cars are they taking in? where is it exactly, is it the track that they rebuilt in the back of the park?

Two cars to go in Sunday night.....with another one coming down for Monday night. B733 usually gets down there around 800/830 on Sunday nights. Yes, the siding worked on last summer.