Sounds like due to all the MOW work as mentioned above they're running everything on the overnight. Due to that it sounds like most of those trains have needed recrews... Also, the train you are refering to was a recrewed Q-157 that was waiting for two s/b intermodals to take the siding in Newburgh before they start north to pick up the Q-434 waiting at CP80 and bring them up to Kingston to get a cab. I had heard the Dispatcher state that they had cabs all over the place picking and dropping off crews. Also, behind the 157 you had a recrewed Q-702 that's to follow north and a N/B Q-003 that was going to switch crews with the Q-008 in Newburgh. I also believe there is an outlawed train in Milton so that's why they were holding three in Newburgh waiting for those two priority intermodals to come south from West Park.
Monday morning we were working on South Dock at West Point, and saw six SB trains come through, pretty much back to back. At least three of them had to hold at the signal just south of the tunnel; they were that tight together. They were all running under a slow order of some sort. First was a double-stack, then trailer train, then mixed consist, then all tank cars. I missed the fifth because I had to run to Radio Shack for some RS-232 connectors. We left just before the sixth one arrived; I could hear its horn.
Anybody know why the backlog?
