EDMO / MOED / EDRJ / RJED / 11R / 14R

Google has the 2009 image
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5785757 ... 328!8i1664

Bing has 2015
https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=fd3ece62 ... orm=S00027

newpylong wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 1:33 pm The MF wye was rebuilt when Pan Am Southern was formed. Prior to that it was 3 tracks in various states of disrepair. It is now one single through track. It has been used on and off over the years for intechange.

A drive by this evening had probably a dozen+ guys and some equipment working feverishly on the interchange track. Surprisingly, it didn’t look as bad as I remembered from last summer, where it resembled a jungle more than anything...

The westbound (28W?) sat quite a while at Millers Falls waiting on that work, they just took off this morning after arriving yesterday afternoon.

They should be headed north somewhere on the NECR; they passed Northfield about an hour ago.

Agreed with harmonic, I haven't seen it for a couple of years now but the Millers Falls connection has been looking pretty sketchy for most of PAS's existence as far as I've seen. I could not say if it saw some work and usage right at the start of PAS as newpylong states and then fell back into disuse and got neglected until now, or if the rehab was actually much more recent. In any event, good to know it is now in a serviceable state as a through connection again.

Yes, as I said it has been used on and off - but never for as much tonnage as they are pushing through now. Sometime after PAS was formed (I don't recall the exact year) the NECR interchange was moved from Brattleboro to MF but under pressure from NECR (because it's a pain in the ass move and only can be done without splitting power going north) plus other changes in PAS's VT traffic, the interchange was moved back to Brat. Since then it has only been used on and off for very small tonnage, cripples, mow, etc, so there is no surprise no major work and no brush cutting has been done now with renewed use.

I saw that WB today at Brattleboro around 8:15. Then made my way down to MF and by 9:30am saw what I'm guessing was POED coming through. Did see some workers clearing out right before that. I don't regularly go there but what was most noticeable was the removal of the old boxcar that used to sit off on one side. I guess I got lucky today on the WB, it was a sight. Are there approximate times on these moves? I might like to catch that again.

I read a posting on Eastern RR News & Sighting Facebook page that indicated some amount of heavier rail was installed at the NECR-PAS connection at MF prior to the wb auto rack train heading north on NECR.

The CV boxcar is gone!? That was always part of the landscape there lol.

One step backward: 11R/16R traffic returned to embargoed status as of 3/5/20 due to lack of detour capacity per NS:
http://www.nscorp.com/content/nscorp/en ... pdate.html

That will be lifted once all the tonnage en-route is moved and they can accept new carloads.

I would think that there must be a lack of enough qualified crews available over the participating RR's to cover all of the detours.

Given that CSX can access all customers east of the Hoosac Tunnel via existing interchange with PAR / PAS at Ayer, I think any container/auto/carload embargo that NS must institute due to the the prolonged tunnel outage may drive all or a lot of such business to CSX. Net: NS sees a major revenue loss while CSX wins more New England traffic and Pan Am only loses the IM/auto haul revenue over D3. It's unfortunate given the level of investment NS has made over the past 10 years in buying the D&H South lines and in Pan Am. NS revenues on the Southern Tier and perhaps deeper into its system will also take a hit. I hope I'm wrong and NS can pull a rabbit out of its hat.

So the VTR/GMRC detour is Kaput now??

Empty auto train and NS power was sitting in ED today. NECR appeared to be going about their normal business, saw them hit MF about the normal time with no sign of PAR.

Plate C-
Depending on when you saw them, the MT racks coulda been those on the tail of the ED-9 holding at Parkers predawn 03-06.