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has reached an agreement with Conrail Shared Assets for emergency use of Linden Yard, located on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, and the Garwood Industrial Track, which runs beside the NJT Raritan Valley Line between Westfield and Cranford. The railroad says Lin- den can accommodate about 250 cars and Gar- wood can handle about 200. 24 of the 70 loco- motives and 131 of the 272 cars that suffered water damage in the hurricane still awaited repairs in June, eight months after the storm.
Norfolk Southern
OIL TRAINS DRAW ATTENTION: High- way traffic delays caused by Norfolk Southern unit oil trains operating into the PBF Energy Delaware City refinery in Reybold, Del., have drawn the attention of state legislators. The plant processes heavy and light crude oil brought in by rail from the Canadian Tar Sands region and from the Bakken Formation in North Dakota and Saskatchewan. Unit oil trains which serve the refinery several times a day cause traffic backups as they trundle across several highway grade crossings be- tween Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor at Davis interlocking in Newark, Del., and the plant. NS recently installed a diamond across the New Castle Secondary at Porter to allow a di- rect move off the Delmarva Secondary from Davis onto the Reybold Industrial Track, which serves the refinery. Previously, trains from Davis had to pull south and clear Porter before reversing north onto the New Castle Secondary and then changing direction again to pull onto the Reybold Runner and into the plant. Oil trains for PBF head south out of Harrisburg, Penn., on the Port Road Branch along the Susquehanna River to a junction with Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor at Per- ryville, Md., and then use the NEC between Perryville and Davis. Before Porter was recon- figured, some trains continued north on the NEC to Ragan interlocking south of Wilming- ton, where they entered the NS Shellpot Sec- ondary and turned south on the New Castle Secondary to Porter and Reybold. Those moves should be much less frequent with the improved connection at Porter.
Saddle Tank Lokie Is Donated to New Logging Museum
THE MOUNT RAINIER SCENIC RAILROAD, wholly owned by the Western Forest Indus- tries Museum, is currently creating a new logging museum at the railroad’s restoration facility in Mineral, Wash. The Outlet Collection Seattle (formerly the Super Mall in Auburn, Wash.) recent- ly donated to WFIM the 0-4-2T (H.K. Porter 1885), cars, and track that had been on display out- side the mall since 1995. The mall is being renovated, and the equipment had to go. The locomo- tive will be cosmetically restored and displayed indoors at the new museum. The museum’s grand opening was held on July 6-7, 2013. Construction will take place in three phases over the next several years, but passengers who ride the MRSR will be able to view the work going on in the restoration / repair facility, see the entire collection of steam logging locomo- tives, and view many other pieces of historic logging equipment. Six logging camp buildings have been added to the facility, all of which will eventually contain exhibits.
Two Eastern Cabooses Have Bright Futures
THE WHIPPANY (N.J.) RAILWAY MUSEUM has restored former Morristown & Erie caboose No. 4 into its original New York, Susque- hanna & Western paint scheme and number, 0112. Built to the Inter- national Car Co. NE-6 design, the car was built in October 1948. It was sold to an individual in 1979 and acquired by the M&E in 1982. The museum picked it up after M&E retired the car in 2012.
IN SPARTANBURG, S.C., THE HUB CITY Railroad Museum has re- stored Southern Railway bay-window caboose No. X3115, built in Sep- tember 1947 at SR’s Hayne Car Shops in Spartanburg. The car is located adjacent to the museum’s home in the old Union Station. The car fea- tures a viewing platform next to the Norfolk Southern main line and also houses an ATCS dispatcher board and a live railroad scanner feed.
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STEVEN HEPLER
MOSS MILLER
BRIAN WISE
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