Portsmouth Navy Yard switcher on PH-1

does anyone know where the Portsmouth Navy Yard switcher was headed...saw the pics on NERAIL...does this mean the navy yard is not getting anymore service? Whatever service they did recieve anyway...here's the link to the photo....any info would be great..thanks


http://naphotos.nerail.org/showpic/?pho ... 436661.jpg

There is still one more GE centercab left on base - a 44T GE.

The 65T GE is reportedly headed to the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic
for duty as a switcher in Derby Shops. Another possibility is to
the Downeast Scenic RR that is reopening portions of the Calais
mainline.

Dave

did it go over the sarah long bridge?

I saw what I assume is that same switcher still sitting at Rockingham Jct. today around 4:30 PM when I passed on the Downeaster.

You are correct Mr. Finch. It is the same unit. It didn't go far. They left it on the Portsmouth runner with the rest of PH-1's consist. It'll probably be there till after the holiday. Love those marker lights!

>Whatever service they did recieve anyway>

In the last years, the only service I know of was the removal of spent nuclear materials from submarines.

PBM

Thats pretty much it, though from time to time something else went in or out, inter-base transfers of equipment, or surplus equipment moved elsewhere. Its funny that no one ever hears about new fuel arriving though. The SRE's on base just get a call; "the fuel is here, go gas up the sub".
There was a small fleet of freight cars there at one time, mainly flats and tanks, I don't know what became of them.

GP40MC1118 wrote:There is still one more GE centercab left on base - a 44T GE.

The 65T GE is reportedly headed to the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic
for duty as a switcher in Derby Shops. Another possibility is to
the Downeast Scenic RR that is reopening portions of the Calais
mainline.

Dave

I doubt that MMA would just now be looking for a 'shop switcher'. They have surplus power and with 5 geeps and now 7 B23s, I really suspect that they would be all set for covering Derby. The Downeast Scenic is a decent bet, but I would be surprised that they would try to collect the unit at this time, being as far as I know the line to Washington Junction is not open to rail traffic, with several crossings in need of rebuilding.

Last spring there was a DOD caboose and two flats sitting in portsmouth yard for a couple weeks that must have gone in/out of the base. I'm dying to see a train go over the sarah long bridge.

Somethingorother wrote:Last spring there was a DOD caboose and two flats sitting in portsmouth yard for a couple weeks that must have gone in/out of the base. I'm dying to see a train go over the sarah long bridge.

me too.

There's a report on the Guilford Sightings Yahoo group of the switcher headed east on EDNM on the evening of Sept 8.

Apparently it was at Northern Maine Junction as of 10:30 AM today, according to GRSSightings.