• CSX B735

  • Discussion of the operations of CSX Transportation, from 1980 to the present. Official site can be found here: CSXT.COM.
Discussion of the operations of CSX Transportation, from 1980 to the present. Official site can be found here: CSXT.COM.

Moderator: MBTA F40PH-2C 1050

  by MBTA F40PH-2C 1050
 
lately B735 has not been leaving their empties on the Middleboro Secondary, any reason behind this? I've noticed this has been happening since the Canton incident...

  by CSX Conductor
 
They probably aren't shoving off onto Branch 5 in Attleboro very often because the conductor is always in a rush to get home. They can shove out of the Chocolate and take the cars north to Walpole with them and this will save them an hour & a half or more. By doing this they tie onto emptiesd in Walpole from B736 the night before and then B732 out of Readville takes them with them after switching out Foxboro Terminal and passes them of to B731. B731 takes all of the Selkirks from Readville to Walpole on the MBCR's Franklin Branch and then up the Framingham Secondary to Framingham. They then head west on Q437 in the morning, same as if the cars came up from Attleboro on B725. :wink:

  by MBTA F40PH-2C 1050
 
ah ok...well turns out that on Friday, they left their empties on the Branch in Attleboro

  by CSX Conductor
 
They have to pick-up the selkirks out of West Mansfield a couple times a week. B733 has to leave their Selkirks by the Hub Folding Box lead when done servicing the industrial park because there is no runaround in the industrial park. Therefore they cannot take the cars back to Readville unless they have 2 engines, and then sometimes it's a hassle splitting the power.