Well then Sir Ray, I give you the big skinny:
1. Diccarlo foods - CATCH: The first batch from DiCarlo is all in cars that LIRR won't clear on the main east of Pineaire. Some trivial matter of overhead clearances and whatnot.
2. 84 lumber Riverhead - CATCH: The town of Riverhead won't give 84 lumber clearance to run a siding and lay track in the storage area. Someone apparently didn't get their campaign contributions.
3. Blissivlle - Switch is in trailing point westward right off the C Secondary. However, it is a switch to nowhere ... no tracks. Railroad Destruction Corp tore up the last vestiges of Blissville Yard last year.
4. Southern Container - Yes, Virginia, they are tearing uyp the works in SC for a switch off the lead. Apparently yet another C&D guy is going in.
5. Central Branch - Yes, they cut a switch in (training point eastward) east of Wellwod DEF, but it points right towards a great bigh hole in the ground. Either local politics or track geometry is involved.
6. <<sniff>> I smell the wafting parfum of MSW rolling off the Bushwick branch.
And as for being a wise guy, if you work for the NY&A .. you gotta be a bit cracked.