by Bracdude181
That historical society/museum place the map was full of stuff like this. It’s in Hamburg PA. They have old cars in the back that carried said coal as well.
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CR2721 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:56 pm I believe it used to be SA-35I thought SA-35 was the run from Browns thru Freehold down to Golds and sometimes getting down to Lakehurst (I thought they were theone's who picked up the "Ocean Grow" fertilizer from the team track at the Gantry)?
Bracdude181 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 11:21 pm NS ran directs to Earle? I know one train came in around 2004 with 72 new boxcars, a Conrail Quality EMD (SD60 or something like that) and a CSX YN2 Dash 8 or 9. There’s pictures of the power sitting on the Earle lead somewhere. No clue what symbol it was.I worked with a conductor who'd bought several pictures of an NS job working at Earle. Inside the base. There were white boxcars sitting in their yard tracks next to the train. He said there was a caboose on the end of train. We're trying to find out what job it was that brought the train down there.
CJPat wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 9:04 am I thought SA-35 was the run from Browns thru Freehold down to Golds and sometimes getting down to Lakehurst (I thought they were theone's who picked up the "Ocean Grow" fertilizer from the team track at the Gantry)?Speaking of Ocean Grow, when did they stop shipping it out by rail, and how much were they shipping out? I heard that whoever was selling it was, I believe, a government agency in Ocean County, and they got in legal trouble (or something stupid) for shipping it by rail or something.
They relatively ran opposite SA-31 back when there were two runs a week down this way.
AceMacSD wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 11:27 am I worked with a conductor who'd bought several pictures of an NS job working at Earle. Inside the base. There were white boxcars sitting in their yard tracks next to the train. He said there was a caboose on the end of train. We're trying to find out what job it was that brought the train down there.If my knowledge of rail regulations is true, if there was a caboose involved, it means that they were certainly carrying weapons/some sort of dangerous material like explosives. Which makes sense if it was the early 2000's, right as the Global War on Terror was beginning
CharlieL wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 12:36 pm End of nuke storage, or 16 inch shells? Needed special handling and direct (no shuffling of cars) shipment?I believe Earle stopped having nukes on their base back in 1992, iirc. I have heard that is around the time when the DoD ceased having nuclear weapons on the surface fleet, aka no more jets on aircraft carriers being equipped with it and whatnot.