There is a Yahoo group for the CSX Trenton Line which is very useful to me because I can see it from my bedroom. I can also see the NS Morrisville Line from my living room. Is there any such group for the Morrisvillie Line?
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msernak wrote:Yes I live right near CP Wood. In the winter and fall when there is no foliage, I can see the eastbound (or is it northbound) signals of CP Wood from my home.CP WOOD is on the CSXT Trenton Line. There are two signals on the Morrisville Line near Woodbourne. CP WEST LANG is almost directly above the tunnel on Woodbourne Road. CP LANG is located just before the line crosses under Route 1.
glennk419 wrote:I'll go along with the 6-8 trains per day. There is an eastbound CSX stack train which comes through Willow Grove around 1:40 each afternoon. I have seen an eastbound unit gon train around the same spot around 4:00-4:15 on many days. I can also often hear a westbound blowing for the County Line Rd crossing around 6:15 each morning, not sure what that is as I live a couple miles from that spot.There are a few trains that run the Morrisville Line. The 66Z/67Z is a gondola train 66Z brings empties east to the USS mill in Fairless, while 67Z takes loads west. 20E/21Q are Intermodal. 14G/17G are mixed freights. CSX runs the Q190/Q191 almost daily from South Philadelphia to South Kearny. It's schedule can be very unpredictable. It has to take the Morrisville Line due to height restrictions on double-stacks south of Woodbourne in several places.[/quote]
kevikens wrote:Question for you guys who know the Morrisville Line well. I could never figure out just where all that freight activity in Morrisville goes to and from. The yard seems to be in an odd location. Though close to NJ and only 50 miles or so from NYC does any of this traffic go across the Delaware into Jersey or NY ? Does the traffic serve Phila. to the south ? Do trains pass through the yard on their way to somewhere else ? There always seems to be a good deal of activity in the yard but I could never out its origin or destination. ThanksBesides the steel plant and intermodal yard, there are a number of industries in the immediate area, including a warehouse park. There were one or two customers down by the west end of the yard (one was an appliance warehouse), and Toll Brothers used to get regular shipments of building products. There were also a few customers down on the "old line" that ran through town, but I'm not sure who is active there. ADM also built a transloading facility (corn syrup) in Morrisville.
RDGAndrew wrote:PennDOT's rebuilding the 309 expressway thru Fort Washington, part of which involved building a shoo-fly to carry the Morrisville Line over the highway while they took out the old bridge and build a new one with wider clearances for the highway below. From the width of the new abutments, it appears NS is planning for the possibility of a restored second track at some future point. Does anyone know anything about this? Seems hard to imagine with only 6 trains/day at present. BTW, the west end of the Morrisville Line, past Plymouth Meeting, sees only 1 train per day, which goes to a steel plant, I think. All other trains go to or come off the ex Reading mainline via a short stretch of the old Pennsy Schuylkill Division that connects with SEPTA's R6 at Ford St. in Norristown, and from there over the river to Abrams Yard and west to Reading and beyond.I went by Fort Washington today and the new bridge is in service and the temporary bridge is already in the process of being dismantled. This all occured with the last week as the shoe-fly was still in place on 3/6. I assume the speed restriction has also been lifted.