Murphy Road Recycling C&D Facility - Hartford, CT

Had a chance to be down at the Murphy Road Recycling plant where they sort C&D waste and ship outbound loads by rail. Snapped the attached photo of the USA Switcher engine. Not sure how frequently this gets fired up, or if CSOR does most of the intra-plant switching. There is also a long cut of the MRRX debris open-topped hoppers parked along I-91, which had disappeared for a time, but returned about 3-4 months ago.

- BWP

Thanks for the posting. Was the orange centercab around?

GP40MC1118 wrote:Thanks for the posting. Was the orange centercab around?

That was all I saw. Is the Orange centercab also a Murphy Road engine or is that a Central New England engine from AJ Belliveau?

It was Murphy Road unit, not CNE. Was there before the the white centercab showed up.

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GP40MC1118 wrote:It was Murphy Road unit, not CNE. Was there before the the white centercab showed up.

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If and when I am back, I will try to see if I can find it.

I was in the Hartford area 2.5 weeks ago and noticed the long strix of open hoppers alongside I-91, but in the mix were some covered hoppers as well. Any idea as to where they were from or were they just being stored?

RJDC85 wrote:I was in the Hartford area 2.5 weeks ago and noticed the long strix of open hoppers alongside I-91, but in the mix were some covered hoppers as well. Any idea as to where they were from or were they just being stored?

They are being stored because the Demo business is down during the winter months. They've used that track for storage the past several years. If things ever thaw out around here those cars should go back into service. I've been wondering why those covered hoppers were in that string of cars too. As far as I know they have no use for cars like that. They may just be storing them for someone else.

SJT wrote:

RJDC85 wrote:I was in the Hartford area 2.5 weeks ago and noticed the long strix of open hoppers alongside I-91, but in the mix were some covered hoppers as well. Any idea as to where they were from or were they just being stored?

They are being stored because the Demo business is down during the winter months. They've used that track for storage the past several years. If things ever thaw out around here those cars should go back into service. I've been wondering why those covered hoppers were in that string of cars too. As far as I know they have no use for cars like that. They may just be storing them for someone else.

Same guess here, storing the covered hoppers for the owner.

Here's links to two photos of the orange 44T GE:

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http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... 4&key=crij" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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so the picture of the white center cab critter ... is a GE 44 tonner?

Two seperate units:

The orange centercab is a 44T or 45T GE, which got repainted white at some point.

The centercab at the start of this topic is a 100T unit.

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Was down at the Murphy Road Cardboard facility... Still did not see a smaller GE engine. They were running the trackmobile. The larger engine was stationary in the same spot as a couple of months ago when I was there last time.