Beesley's Point Future

Yes and I heard it was grant money that is use it or lose it. Maybe someone can confirm that.

I heard something like that. Also heard SRNJ put the lights up because of some sort of NJDOT thing.

I can understand the latter because Black Horse Pike is a busy highway, and the rail line there is sometimes used for storage. But the BPIT? A track Conrail may never run on again? Very strange…

State DOT pays for grade crossing upgrades and it knows how to waste $$$ very well. And I doubt CMSL will buy this rail line for car storage.

DOT pays for the road but the railroad pays for the lights.

Maybe not buy the line, but lease it. That’s usually how shortlines take over from Conrail I’ve noticed.

https://uppertownship.com/images/PDF/pl ... Report.pdf

I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but the study area covers the BPIT from near Tuckahoe Road to the BL England property.

I saw on the news last night that most of the plant was demolished yesterday except the stack which will be done at a later date.

All the track is still in there though. Weird…

The implosion video is interesting. Looks like there is still an old grainer on the property. Maybe old shoving platform. Red circle up top: https://imgur.com/a/BX0HqHL
Full video here: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/vi ... mploded/#x

That car's been there a long time. I remember seeing it way back when we'd pull through to run around. The tracks'll probably be ripped out when they fully remove all the demo materials. Same thing happened in Perth Amboy at the steel. And just like who they cut up the engine and rails there and trucked out the scrap, same will go for there.

There were two SW9s in there when the plant was still operating. Did they get scrapped as well? AFAIK they were owned by Atlantic City Electric.

Edit: AceMac, just out of curiosity would you happen to know where Conrail ownership of the line ends and where BL Englands started?

Pretty crazy to think that this site was operating until just 4 years ago. I believe there is a video somewhere on here of the last train to the power plant.

AceMacSD wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 8:01 pm That car's been there a long time. I remember seeing it way back when we'd pull through to run around. The tracks'll probably be ripped out when they fully remove all the demo materials. Same thing happened in Perth Amboy at the steel. And just like who they cut up the engine and rails there and trucked out the scrap, same will go for there.

Think CR or CMSL will run a train to retrieve the ripped up rail and demo materials?

CMSL is not allowed on the Beesleys Point Industrial Track, which begins at DCS PAL on the Beesleys Point Secondary and ends either on or near the BL England property. Any train running there would be either Conrail, NS, or CSX.

Before demolition began, construction waste trains were rumored but never ran. Last summer they demolished the cooling tower there and no waste trains ran, so I doubt we will see any.

As to a rail train, possible but unlikely.

Chances are it'll have the same fate as the Perth Amboy steel. Demo material trucked out and that remaining car will most likely be trucked out in the pile of rubble too. And no rail train. If the tracks not given up to the Cape May, it'll likely but cut and trucked out.

Even if they hand it off to CMSL I’m not exactly sure what they can do besides car storage. Excursions maybe, but even so…

Finally found something explaining what the developers want with this place. Notice that the area they wish to redevelop does include a portion of the BPIT. Including all of the yard tracks and a portion of the line south of there…

https://ocnjsentinel.com/we-are-differe ... a-purpose/