There are a handful of trains that use the CSX Lurgan Sub. from Hagerstown to Chambersburg.
First of all there are two intermodals that run Mon-Sat, Q135 and Q136. Q135 departs Chambersburg around 7:30-8 PM on most nights and arrives in Hagerstown around 8:30-9ish. Q136 comes into Hagerstown generally about 3-4 AM but it has been known to run at like 2 AM and also in daylight (one time was 4 PM!). It appears that if operations begin to pick up (as expected) in Chambersburg, CSX will increase operations to 2 intermodals per way.
The line's only other traveler is D773, running Monday-Friday. This local departs Hagerstown in late morning/early PM and switches several Chambersburg area industries (including sometimes interchanging with NS in Chambersburg) before returning to Hagerstown in the late afternoon.
The following customers in Chambersburg (South Brandon on the RR) are served regularly:
-Ventura Foods
Gets tank cars of vegetable oil and maybe corn syrup as well. They have multiple tracks within their facility and it takes the D773 awhile to switch them.
-Franklin Storage
Has two sidings: they boxcars, some lumber and also some open top hoppers where some aggregates are transloaded.
-Nursery Supply
Has a lone siding with a decent cut of centerflow covered hoppers that often come from NS in Chambersburg. The local creeps down the relatively new interchange track (from the 90's) and switches out cars for Nursery Supply Co.
-Chambersburg Cold Storage
Gets a few cars from time to time and they have an ex-B&O switcher. Sometimes they have a significant amount of cars and other times they have a dry spell for weeks.
There are easily 4 more customers that have sidings in Chambersburg but havent received cars for at least a few years. Many of these sidings were used to store ballast hoppers and tie gons for the intermodal terminal project (which was a large traffic source for the past year and a half).
The only customer on the Lurgan between Hagerstown and Chambersburg is Paramount Feed and Supply Co. which very occasionally receives a car or two. Maybe once a week at most.. This customer is about 4 miles north of the CSX Hagerstown Yard.
When the line was upgraded for the intermodal terminal, all of the sidings/spurs south of Conboy besides Paramount were eliminated and the RR is shifting its alignment from the low line to the highline from Conboy through Altenwald. The low line will remain as a MofW spur (a lot of ballast was used for this project). There will also be a several mile long storage track from New Franklin (where the 2 mains into the terminal area converge to one), to almost Altenwald.
For the most part, this line has a bright future after losing all of its coal traffic and Letterkenny Army Depot traffic to the neighboring NS line (CSX now has trackage rights for this traffic over NS). In the future it is doubtful that the Lurgan will handle through traffic again but if the NS line eventually runs into capacity problems it is a possibility. For now, however, it looks like the intermodal business is starting to pick up and there are also a series of healthy customers in Chambersburg.
Hope this helps,
Greg
