CMSL service Rio Grande to Cape May

What are the terms of the contract with BNT re: passenger service? Tony seems to be running a freight car storage company -- anyone know the current per-diem storage rate per freight car? And when does his agreement with NJT end?

sorry I wont post hear anymore

Byron

bystander wrote:sorry I wont post hear anymore

Byron

Why?

I am told they will run to Richland tomorrow - Saturday 5/30 for Richland day...Short trips to Milmay/Dorothy and back...

5/30/2015
CMSL ran short excursions for Richland Village Day. They departed Richland and went as far as Milmay before turning.
LV 576 was used for power along with PRR 7000.

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John D.

Thanks, Meagan. John beat my post by one minute, so I deleted mine as redundant.
Bob

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing--DCH

Interesting - what changed on the F unit between this weekend and the Christmas Season? As had been mentioned - I haven't see either of those F units move in years - Does any one know what is the status of the both of them? Obviously one works now - or was it just used as a "cab car" like an RDC would have been?

scottso699 wrote:Interesting - what changed on the F unit between this weekend and the Christmas Season? As had been mentioned - I haven't see either of those F units move in years - Does any one know what is the status of the both of them? Obviously one works now - or was it just used as a "cab car" like an RDC would have been?

Hard to tell from the photos but PRR 7000 seems to be doing all of the work. Maybe John or Bob can tell us if LV 576 was actually running and online. Can the HEP genset power the headlamps and ditch lights?

Sorry folks---- This thread will be locked for maintenance and will probably reopen again in early July. Thank you. DCH




BTW-----The LV F7 ran fine on the Richland run!

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I am Facebook friends with CMSL; They posted a picture of a freight move. In the comments section someone asked where and when the pic was taken and they responded "Passenger service will return this fall." Anyone have any info?

Photo and caption on last page (page 12) of West Jersey Rails Quarterly Summer 2015 issue; caption:
"Cape May Seashore Lines began forwarding sand shipments from Tuckahoe, N.J. in April. This very fine dry sand is mined and processed in Cumberland County and then trucked to Tuckahoe in dry-bulk trailers as shown in this early May photo... Presently cars are being loaded on the main track south of the station near the former wye. An average of about six to eight cars are loaded per week with each car holding four or five truckloads. Shipments are consigned to a number of destinations generally east of the Mississippi."

West Jersey Chapter-NRHS

I suppose that's progress. Little confused, they load it onto the CMSL at Tuckahoe, then the loaded cars are taken to Cumberland county? So CMSL does what, they allow the cars to be loaded, then drags them up the few hundred yards to make the interchange with ConRail? Then ConRail takes them north via Winslow to Camden then south on the Millville Branch? Does ConRail take them all the way or are they interchanged with the W&W? Or did I totally read that wrong and only the refined sand is loaded and pushed to ConRail?

rrbluesman wrote:I suppose that's progress. Little confused, they load it onto the CMSL at Tuckahoe, then the loaded cars are taken to Cumberland county? So CMSL does what, they allow the cars to be loaded, then drags them up the few hundred yards to make the interchange with ConRail? Then ConRail takes them north via Winslow to Camden then south on the Millville Branch? Does ConRail take them all the way or are they interchanged with the W&W? Or did I totally read that wrong and only the refined sand is loaded and pushed to ConRail?

You basically have the first part right. The cars are loaded with sand that is trucked in from Cumberland County and then moved up to the station area for interchange with Conrail. The cars are then picked up by Conrail and are destined for the Midwest. They do not come back down to Cumberland.

Glad to hear that they have established this business as anything that provides revenue for CMSL and keeps the rails shiny on the Bees is positive.