poppyl wrote:I wasn't going to get into this because it's off topic and doesn't justify my goof up, but back when the coal drags were still running to Dresden, HO6 occasionally had four axle power. It's all moot now, however.
Back to the FGLK topic, was the trash transfer job at the Depot in the works before Sandy? Seems like it might have been given the track work last summer.
Poppyl
No... the original plan was to have the train go directly to Seneca Meadows. The land fill pitched the idea of opening up a clay mine about 3 or 4 years ago once they had finished up they planed to fill the open strip mine with garbage. They had drafted up plans to have a railroad siding and passing track put in with a rotatory dumper this was published in the Finger Lakes Times with a blue print. The routeing from what I understand was that the trash cars were going to come in on CSX by way of Syracuse where they would be handed off to Finger Lakes. Total trains if I remember were going to be about 2 trains a week which would have eliminated 90 some odd semi trucks a day that travel up and down from New York City and New Jersey every day.
Seneca County refused to renew and issue any more permits to Seneca Meadows about a year and half ago there for killing the land fill expansion plans so the plans to have a siding were canceled as well.
The trash train issue. As it was explained from a friend who works with NS he told me that they lost the Maresk Contract to CSX. So NS took the Trash train contracts and a few other tidbits that CSX decided to let go as far as low income cargo trains go my friend did not elaborate as to what else NS picked up... but it dose explane why the trash will come up on NS rather than on CSX now.
