by Eric Mezzo
Since 6/6/08, there hasn't been a lumber load for Builders' General in Freehold, a normal plastics load for Lesco in Tennant, or stone load for Reed & Perrine also in Tennant. The only thing I saw tonight were 2 red boxcars on the team track at BG's yard filled with bricks for Clayton Masonry. I think they were put there yesterday, they were stocked pretty well (The slide door was open).
These are three very important customers on this rail line. Why wouldn't there be any delivery for 2 weeks? Low demand?
I have an unsolved story that might help you out. When I saw the train on 6/6, it was going over the Monmouth Battlefield trestle heading towards Jamesburg (I wasn't on Throckmorton but the road that goes directly under the trestle). I came upon a Norfolk Southern GP40-2 pushing 3 hopper cars and assumed they just finished drilling Builder's General but how come there were no lumber cars? Maybe they came from Prestone/Honeywell on Halls Mills Rd? Nope that couldn't be it because the guys put the three cars on the Lesco siding.
Very weird. Anyway I followed it to Lesco in Tennant. I saw the train putting the cars onto the Lesco siding onto only about half of the regular 15-20 hopper car load it usually has. I saw a full load the day before. Now I was getting really confused. I then decided to follow it up to Jamesburg since I missed it in Englishtown. When I saw run by Lake Manalapan, it was running light back to Browns Yard. How were these damn railcars disappearing? THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY PLACES RAILCARS CAN GO!!!
Let me know what you guys think. Maybe I'm clueless about something new happening on the line. That's what usually happens...
These are three very important customers on this rail line. Why wouldn't there be any delivery for 2 weeks? Low demand?
I have an unsolved story that might help you out. When I saw the train on 6/6, it was going over the Monmouth Battlefield trestle heading towards Jamesburg (I wasn't on Throckmorton but the road that goes directly under the trestle). I came upon a Norfolk Southern GP40-2 pushing 3 hopper cars and assumed they just finished drilling Builder's General but how come there were no lumber cars? Maybe they came from Prestone/Honeywell on Halls Mills Rd? Nope that couldn't be it because the guys put the three cars on the Lesco siding.
Very weird. Anyway I followed it to Lesco in Tennant. I saw the train putting the cars onto the Lesco siding onto only about half of the regular 15-20 hopper car load it usually has. I saw a full load the day before. Now I was getting really confused. I then decided to follow it up to Jamesburg since I missed it in Englishtown. When I saw run by Lake Manalapan, it was running light back to Browns Yard. How were these damn railcars disappearing? THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY PLACES RAILCARS CAN GO!!!
Let me know what you guys think. Maybe I'm clueless about something new happening on the line. That's what usually happens...