Seneca yard to reopen June 6th (or there about)

If you call it reopening, the difference between before and after will be a yardmaster (on 1st trick to start), a air line to each end of the yard, one more working track and possible a yard crew;
R 1 ,2 & 3
Class 1-6
Class 5 will be back in service as all others have been in use.
The purpose? Switching autos (which use to be done there before). Collinwood and Niagara Falls are too far and DeWitt and Frontier weren't designed to switch 86' cars.

As far as this mystery 'intermodal' yard, who knows............

I'm wondering what brought this about? Just bringing some minor relief to these stations?


Implementation scheduled for 6/5/2005 -

Trains Affected:

Q203 - Add to operate Saturdays from Framingham MA to Seneca Yard.
Q254 - Terminate train at Ridgefield Heights vs. Doremus Ave.. Remove
P/U
DORA and P/T RHTA at Selkirk.
Q271 - Terminate at Seneca Yard vs. Walbridge Yard.
Q273 - Terminate at Seneca Yard vs. Pottersburg.
Q279 - Change to an automatic schedule.
Q291 - Remove NBS block at Buffalo and add it at Seneca Yard.
Q293 - Terminate at Seneca Yard vs. Selkirk Yard.
Q279 - Change to an automatic schedule.

New yard job added - Y120 On Duty 06:59 - Rest Days Sun/Mon (Job will
be
covered by YR40 on Sun/Mon)

Receiving Yard Tracks 1-3 and Class Tracks 1-6 are now in service.

No other changes to be made at this time.

videobruce wrote:...Niagara Falls are too far...

Is CSX KIDDING us???

how can NF "TOO FAR" away??? CSX can run these ML straight SHOT to NF without any battles for rights of traffics. only fights they would have are against amtraks and 624 and 626 (or one of these) and local? what else? ML can easily get behind Amtrak Heading for NF or heading to Froniter from NF.

By the way, I had seen unusually parking lot for new vehicles off 290 near Deleware st (rd?) NO TRAINS for unloading, NO office for employers??? I am sure that their neighbor is NOT VERY VERY pleased with losing his tentat because of ALL NIGHT floodlights - way way tooo BRIGHT. What is it doing there??

Ken

One more crew and the train isn't any further than where it started.

Interesting, Tuesday afternoon, most didn't even know anything about it. No GN or anything posted. Late afternoon, all 9 tracks were full with two trains working at the same time.

SimTrains; where did that come from?

"confidential" source

One of those...........
too bad few others knew it was opened for sure.