CP Park

where is CP Park, i got this message in a email

"UP 5166 with another UP unit marked helper only and a csx emd through CP Park
about 12:30 after delays due to having to set out a unit at Belmont, running
between Park & Belmont to switch tracks, weaving Q300 & Q172 through with
multiple track personnel at Belmont and an NS job to get the set out Q417 engine

from the siding and take it to Falls, and finally waiting for 39G to clear.
I've never seen Belmont look so busy."

where is this, Mass?

Not in Mass. First off UP power cannot be a leader on the B&A because the UP uses a different cab signal system. Secondly, CSX does not name their interlockings by name, unless they do that down south on the older property. Thirdly, the only rail service in Belmont Mass is a double track mainline used by the MBTA Fitchburg Commuter Rail Line, as well as an occasional Guilford local.

Q172 is an intermodal (vans & containers) train which runs from Jacksonville Fl to Oak Island, NJ


Maybe CrazyNip can help ya out.

I think this is in the Philadelphia area...

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That's what I thought when I first saw Interlockings with names as opposed to #'s since this train travels on some of the NEC, I believe.

CP Park is located under the Art Museum in Philadelphia. It marks the north end of the Philadelphia Subdivision to Baltimore.

thanks for the answer guys

This reminds me of a situation that I encountered while I was living in New
York City back in the late 1970's. I lived in a high rise (what else in NYC)
on the tenth floor with an outdoor patio. I did not use the patio for living
but I did mount two outdoor scanner antennas out there and what
reception I could get.
Sometimes, under certain conditions, I could pick up the former PRSL
tower at Tuckahoe which was not exactly a busy location with only one or
two passenger trains each way a day. I could not figure out what I was
receiving for some time after I started getting this stuff but eventually it
came to me.
I remember in the CB days, such communications were referred to as
"skip" and I suppose it applied to the railroad frequencies also. I would
get these communications for a day or a few days at a time than not
again for some time.
It came through on channel 2 (161.07) which was also used at Oak Point
and other places on Conrail in the New York area.
Noel Weaver

Like was said earlier CP Park is the most northern part (eastern by the railroad) of the CSX Philadelphia Subdivision. It also marks the starting point of the CSX Trenton Line. It comes from RG Tower and Eastside Yard. It goes to CP Belmont where the Highline comes in from 58th Street on the southern (western) side of RG and from the CSX/NS shared assests, and CP/D&H Greenwich South Phiadelphia Yard. Any train the goes to or from Philadelphia runs through CP Belmont except for 4 trains to and from Greenwich from the south (Q370, Q373, Q405, Q406).