by wintower
At 6:15p. noticed the P&W train northbound over the mainline of the L.I.R.R.
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cr1991 wrote:Technically, yes. Though in my head anything more than the normal round trip is 'extra'... Not quite sure how else to describe it since it's not quite the normal run.DogBert wrote:The usual early morning run + an extra to FP at 930am - 30-50 general merch cars... Some nice clean GATX boxes on this run.
That wasn't an extra. The Y101 went over light power to Fresh Pond and made 1 return trip with cars.
csx8851 wrote:CSX Y101 came to FP around 11ish. Saw a trailing SD60M but don't know when it left.Around 12:45. It had two sd60s.
expbusop wrote:Local with 30-35 cars south at Morris Heights this afternoon 2 GP38's box cars, trash cars, propane tanks and caboose at about 4:30 pm. Is this normal or something out of the ordinary, or has to do with repairs at Croton Yard.Sounds like a southbound road train was parked in Croton. The B749 and the B750 are now based out of Oak Point.
cr1991 wrote:Those were left a couple days ago. It seems like surplus is left in Croton as to not congest Oak Point. B749 came this morning. Left about 3:10PMexpbusop wrote:Local with 30-35 cars south at Morris Heights this afternoon 2 GP38's box cars, trash cars, propane tanks and caboose at about 4:30 pm. Is this normal or something out of the ordinary, or has to do with repairs at Croton Yard.Sounds like a southbound road train was parked in Croton. The B749 and the B750 are now based out of Oak Point.
gregorygrice wrote:cr1991 wrote:Those were left a couple days ago. It seems like surplus is left in Croton as to not congest Oak Point. B749 came this morning. Left about 3:10PMexpbusop wrote:Local with 30-35 cars south at Morris Heights this afternoon 2 GP38's box cars, trash cars, propane tanks and caboose at about 4:30 pm. Is this normal or something out of the ordinary, or has to do with repairs at Croton Yard.Sounds like a southbound road train was parked in Croton. The B749 and the B750 are now based out of Oak Point.
cr1991 wrote:Well nothing has outlawed in the past couple days.gregorygrice wrote:cr1991 wrote:Those were left a couple days ago. It seems like surplus is left in Croton as to not congest Oak Point. B749 came this morning. Left about 3:10PMexpbusop wrote:Local with 30-35 cars south at Morris Heights this afternoon 2 GP38's box cars, trash cars, propane tanks and caboose at about 4:30 pm. Is this normal or something out of the ordinary, or has to do with repairs at Croton Yard.Sounds like a southbound road train was parked in Croton. The B749 and the B750 are now based out of Oak Point.
Oak Point has more than enough room...