freightguy wrote:....this was offset by regaining Riverhead Builders so the aforementioned marketing person claims.Riverhead Builders gets maybe one car a month.
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New ballast laid in Maspeth Yard. Same ballast will dissapear into the mud and/or fall through the hole in the center of the earth to China as soon as the boys in the grungy red trucks tamp it.
Roger Dodger / One More One /
Oh, no, Oh, no!
Oh, no, Oh, no!
The only reason Riverhead Builders receives a car every once in a blue moon is to keep the switch active. If there's no business going in there, there's no need to pay for switch maintenance.
Riverhead Building supply also has a heavy financial interest in the trucking business on the east end. That's why they ship mostly by truck. They'd be cutting off their nose to spite their face otherwise.
Jay
Riverhead Building supply also has a heavy financial interest in the trucking business on the east end. That's why they ship mostly by truck. They'd be cutting off their nose to spite their face otherwise.
Jay
I saw the crew with the red trucks working in the yard the other day. As far as rolling stock goes, there were two TrailerTrain centerbeam flatcars sitting empty towards the east end of the yard, and a cut of reefers west of the crossing, one of which had a truck backed up to it for unloading. Nothing else, rolling stock or motive power, was to be seen. Is there going to be any re-configuring of the trackage in the yard?
Bump.
Took a few photos today of a ratty 101 with 106 switching. Seemed really busy.
RE: The spur that crosses rust street - there was a truck with a dumpster n the trackway there heading north. I think the area was just cleaned up so whoever is in the warehouse next door could park in there...
Took a few photos today of a ratty 101 with 106 switching. Seemed really busy.
RE: The spur that crosses rust street - there was a truck with a dumpster n the trackway there heading north. I think the area was just cleaned up so whoever is in the warehouse next door could park in there...
Anything new about the clean up of the spur that crosses Rust St. on the north side of the Maspeth Yard? Is someone going to get rail service there?
Today the 156 (looks awesome!) and 9373 (awaiting painting) were working the yard around 1100. Elevating Maspeth Ave. over the yard would make a great deal of good sense......
The RS-302, night time yard switcher, sometimes runs down to Maspeth at night to run a cut of Intermodal Flats for a customer down there. Ususal consist is 12-18 90 foot flats. This saves the day crew from working with too long a train.
Power used is whatever is available
Power used is whatever is available
Roger Dodger / One More One /
Oh, no, Oh, no!
Oh, no, Oh, no!
On Wednesday, while crossing over the lower Montauk Branch at 49 St., west of the Maspeth Yard, I noticed an end-of-track bumper just to the left of the crossing on the south side of the tracks. Is that the far western end of the Maspeth Yard? If so, why is it not connected down there? Wouldn't that make things easier for the crews working the yard and the rest of the lower Montauk customers?
Also, there was a large amount of gondolas for C&D debris, and some long COFC flatcars, but no other types of rolling stock in the yard. I recall in the past being able to see boxcars, centerbeam and bulkhead flatcars and reefers when passing by on Rust St. Has that business died out for NYA in that area? I did'nt see any motive power down there either, at the time, around 1220.
Also, there was a large amount of gondolas for C&D debris, and some long COFC flatcars, but no other types of rolling stock in the yard. I recall in the past being able to see boxcars, centerbeam and bulkhead flatcars and reefers when passing by on Rust St. Has that business died out for NYA in that area? I did'nt see any motive power down there either, at the time, around 1220.
That track with the bumper is just for a locomotive escape track and a run-around for the rest of the yard. Mainline switches are expensive and the east end of the yard seems to be all the mainline connections the railroad deemed fit. Old track maps show that track being that way when there were even more customers in the area
As for the C&D taking over the "cabbage" track, guess the C&D pays better then produce
Those cabbage track customers are still around, they just moved them someplace I've yet to find. I still see reefers on the Maspeth job trains from time to time. I figure they are up the middle of the yard where the tarcks go into the street near Railroad Avenue.
The lumber yard on the east end still gets boxcars and center beams, as does the box factory get the paper service boxcars.
John
As for the C&D taking over the "cabbage" track, guess the C&D pays better then produce
Those cabbage track customers are still around, they just moved them someplace I've yet to find. I still see reefers on the Maspeth job trains from time to time. I figure they are up the middle of the yard where the tarcks go into the street near Railroad Avenue.
The lumber yard on the east end still gets boxcars and center beams, as does the box factory get the paper service boxcars.
John