Trains and operations in Browns Yard

The Linden, NJ General Motors plant serviced by Stiles Street yard closed in 2005 I believe. Once in a while, I've seen NS park engines and a tanker car (set out as defective?) for their oil trains. They also had the NS Safety Train for an emergency response training session their a few years back.

AceMacSD, are you suggesting they are working to service another type of industry (besides oil) in the yard as well? If so, in which direction would that traffic flow? I can't imagine Amtrak would allow any additional significant freight onto the NEC.

CR used Stiles to stage chemical traffic until sometime around the recession. Was used as a convenient parking spot for engines and BO cars when the unit oil trains were still running to Phillips, but now whatever oil traffic Phillips is still getting moves in the manifest network.

Am curious to see what plays out of there, if this talk of renovation is true. The former GM site is now DCs whose only rail use is intermodal; the spurs are gone. Perhaps some transloading is in play?

Anyone hear something on the scanner about signal indication at what sounded like BANK??? Couldn’t make it out.

planespotting wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:08 pm The Linden, NJ General Motors plant serviced by Stiles Street yard closed in 2005 I believe. Once in a while, I've seen NS park engines and a tanker car (set out as defective?) for their oil trains. They also had the NS Safety Train for an emergency response training session their a few years back.

AceMacSD, are you suggesting they are working to service another type of industry (besides oil) in the yard as well? If so, in which direction would that traffic flow? I can't imagine Amtrak would allow any additional significant freight onto the NEC.

Possibly "interchange" traffic to ease the burden on Port Reading and Browns. Traffic would come out of OI by use of the garden state. We would not put extra freight traffic on Amtrak even if its a more direct route. Doesn't seem to make sense right now but will when the time comes. There are still more details that need to be hammered out between parties involved.

Thanks, AceMacSD. Look forward to seeing what develops during my commute into NYC. Perhaps the visual aspect of the commute may get more interesting. New freight businesses on the Delco lead have come online in the last few years and with Stiles Street yard potentially seeing more action in the future it could make looking out the window more fun for railfans.

Permission to open up 3:38 PM

Lined and Locked normal 3:50 PM

Arrival in Red Bank 4:34 PM

Clear of BANK interlocking on the Southern Secondary 4:43 PM

OI-16 arriving in Browns Yard at 17:50

CSX 8089 SD40-2

CSX 1712 SD40E3

44 cars

Earlier arrival than usual. No sign of BDRV 752??

Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 5:26 pm Earlier arrival than usual. No sign of BDRV 752??

No 752. Still in Oak Island as of last night.

OI-16 has left Browns Yard at 18:48 and is going back up lite with 1712 leading

Maybe it's going to Linden?

Could be. They’ve leased that engine out before.

Aside from whoever’s in Bayway and Phillips 66 in Tremleys Point, or perhaps the East Jersey Terminal Railroad if they are still around, I wouldn’t know who else needs an engine. Customers closer to Port Reading seem content with having Conrail switch them out to some extent.