CSX River Line Status Updates

A CN unit is on the ground at CP90 in Kingston. There's pictures posted on dailyfreeman.com. From the photos, it appears to be just the one loco derailed and the other engines and cars of the consist not affected.

Re. CP90 derailment: My wife was in the area and asked some of the onlookers what happened. Word is the train was northbound on the Main, overshot a stop signal at CP90, then backed up through the switch turned for the siding, splitting the switch.

Oh boy, that's bad news for the river line. Probably big delays. And a big repair also?

Edit: I saw the newspaper article doesn't look too bad but said it would be a 12 hour repair job.

airman00 wrote:Oh boy, that's bad news for the river line. Probably big delays. And a big repair also?

Edit: I saw the newspaper article doesn't look too bad but said it would be a 12 hour repair job.

K041-24 did overshoot a signal, heard the Q156 answer the next signal north, then engineer panicked and went backwards. Lucky the 156 stopped in time! Accident was cleared up in about 4 hours. However the CP90 switch it now broken. Lucky that's all the damage that was done

Here are todays catches at CP5 and Auto 7 from Noon-8:45PM

1) Q156 (UP ACe, CSX GEVO)
2) Q010 (AC60, D8)
3) Q008 (2 AC44, GEVO)
4) Q271 (GEVO, 2 SD40-2)
5) Q703 (GEVO, C40-8)
6) Q438 (3 GEVO, AC44, 2 D8, C40-8, Genset)
7) K280 (ACe, AC44)
8) Q433 (GEVO, D8)
9) Q417 (70MAC, YN2 60I)
10) Q434 (C40-8, NS GEVO)

Today I was between CP5 and CP10 on the River Line from 5:30AM-10PM

1) Q161 (2 BNSF GEVO)
2) Q112 (2 GEVO)
3) K041 (BNSF GEVO, BNSF D9, BNSF MAC)
4) Q003 (GEVO, AC60, AC44)
5) Q438 (AC60, Spirit of Dante, MP15T, AC44)
6) Q439 (GEVO, UP 70M, SD50)
7) K042-05 (NS ACe, NS GEVO)
8) Q433 (D8, SD50, SD40-2, SW1001)
9) Q008 (2 GEVO, AC44)
10) Q010 (D9, GEVO)
11) Q434 (3 GEVO, 2 D8)
12) Q702 (2 GEVO)
13) Q268 (UP AC60, SD40-2)
14) Q156 (2 AC44)
15) K042-06 (BNSF H1 D9, BNSF H2 D9, BN MAC)
16) Q410 (GEVO, AC44)
17) Q271 (2 GEVO)
18) Q162 (AC44, D9)
19) K685 (D8, SD50)
20) K418 (D8, CEFX AC44, CP AC44)

A lot of variety there

I went to Auto 28, CP26 and CP22 Tuesday from 5PM-11:15PM

1) X702 (AC60, C40-8, SD40-2)
2) K040 (2 BNSF GEVO)
3) Q433 (AC44, GEVO)
4) Q167 (GEVO, AC44)
5) Q157 (C40-8, GEVO)
6) Q438 (2 GEVO, ACe, D8)
7) Q004 (AC60, AC44, D8)

I went to CP5 today from 10:30AM-10:30PM

1) Q010 (AC44, AC60)
2) K041 (CP GEVO, UP GEVO, BNSF 70MAC (BN))
3) Q008 (UP C40-8, AC44, D9, SD50-2)
4) Y922 (C40-8, GEVO)
5) Q156 (2 GEVO)
6) Q418 (SD40-2, GEVO)
7) Q438 (GEVO, CP GEVO)
8) Q433 (AC44, 60M, MP15AC)
9) K533 (2 AC44)
10) Q703 (GEVO, SD40-2)
11) Q268 (2 GEVO, AC44)
12) K043 (NS GEVO, BNSF GEVO)
13) Q439 (AC60, SD50-2, Genset)
14) Q702 (GEVO, D8)

Quick question... As I recall CSX did tie replacement and associated trackwork, on the north jersey section through the northern valley area, last year. (towns like Harrington Park, Norwood, Haworth, etc. etc.) I'm assuming that work was all done. Am I right? The reason I ask is, in my work travels I noticed a section of panel track in Haworth and some fresh tie bundles + fresh gravel in Harrington Park. Not to speculate but... Any chance this could be for some double tracking work? Because all the ties they laid out last year were installed and these ties and gravel are fresh not left over from last years work.

airman00 wrote:Quick question... As I recall CSX did tie replacement and associated trackwork, on the north jersey section through the northern valley area, last year. (towns like Harrington Park, Norwood, Haworth, etc. etc.) I'm assuming that work was all done. Am I right? The reason I ask is, in my work travels I noticed a section of panel track in Haworth and some fresh tie bundles + fresh gravel in Harrington Park. Not to speculate but... Any chance this could be for some double tracking work? Because all the ties they laid out last year were installed and these ties and gravel are fresh not left over from last years work.

That work was all done, yes. As of right now there are no plans to double track the area from CP10 to CP22 due to a lot of crossings. Currently they are making a controlled siding from CP35 to CP38 (at the moment Auto 38). Perhaps this is to fix a section from last year? they did not replace all ties, only about every 1/5 of them

Yesterday I was at CP5 from 5PM-8:15PM, here is what I got:

1) Q418 (GEVO, SD40-2)
2) X789 (GP40-2, SD50-2)
3) K419 (GEVO, AC44)
4) K280 (GEVO, D8)
5) Q703 (60I, D8)
6) K040 (2 BNSF ACe)

Today, I was between CP5 and CP22 from 10am-10:15PM, here is what I got:

1) K04005 (AC44, NS GEVO)
2) Q010 (GEVO, AC44)
3) Q008 (AC44, GEVO, D9)
4) K041 (BNSF D9, AC44)
5) K653 (AC44, GEVO, CP GEVO)
6) S410 (2 SD40-2, SD40-3)
7) Q702 (2 GEVO, D9)
8) Q434 (GEVO, SD50)
9) K044 (ATSF D9, CN SD60, BNSF D9)
10) Q410 (2 AC60, GEVO, SD50, GP40-2, Slug)
11) K281 (GEVO, AC44)
12) Q156 (GEVO, D8)
13) Q433 (D8, HLCX SD40-2)
14) Q254 (D8, ICE SD40)
15) K280 (2 GEVO)
16) K04006 (BNSF GEVO, BNSF AC44)
17) Q439 (GEVO, AC60)
18) L157 (GEVO, AC44)

I like 9, 13, and other bnsf unit train

fl9m2004 wrote:I like 9, 13, and other bnsf unit train

I liked a lot of these trains in my opinion. K041, K653, K044, Q410, Q433, Q254, and K04006. Definitely one of the best days on the River Line and tons of variety yesterday!

Huge river line backup at Cornwall right now. Possible fire on a southbound train at cp58. Saw smoke around the head locomotive and saw fire trucks around but I can't confirm if the fire came from the train. Right now there's about 4 trains backed up between Newburgh and West Point. A southbound trash train has the crossings in new Windsor all blocked.