railfan.com/railnews Western Maryland Heisler On the
The Mountain State Railroad & Logging Historical Association operated it annual railfan weekend at the Cass Scenic Railroad in West Virginia on May 15-17. Highlighting the event was the operation of Heisler No. 6 on the former Western Maryland south of Cheat Bridge (now operated by the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley). The logging locomotive pulled a seven-car photo freight, with photo runbys at scenic locations such as the crossing of the Shaver’s Fork of the Cheat River. This is the fi rst year the D&GV is operating the Cass line for the state (the railroad is a state park) and it had two Shays heading up the traditional Cass route to Bald Knob.
PHOTO BY STEVE BARRY
Cabless Bosters Rule the Chewelah Turn
A large group of BNSF cabless GP60B’s are calling the Inland Northwest home. The Santa Fe originally purchased 40 B-units in 1990 to run as part of their fast intermodal fl eet. Most received the BNSF orange “Heritage 1” paint scheme and were scattered about the system for more routine work. Spokane, Wash., is home to a half dozen GP60B units, with many assigned to the Chewelah Turn. Trains received from the Kettle Falls International Railway at Chewelah at times top 80 cars, giving the Geeps quite a workout.
PHOTO BY ROBERT W. SCOTT
merchandise traffic in excess of 200%. The DL is currently working with four new customers whom expect to be re- ceiving shipments later in 2015. Genesee Valley Transportation was founded in 1985 and operates more than 300 miles of rail lines in New York and Pennsylvania, including the Dela- ware-Lackawanna, Depew, Lancaster & Western; Falls Road Railroad; Mo- hawk, Adirondack & Northern; and the Lowville & Beaver River.
Morristown & Erie Tests Rebuilt EMDs
After purchasing several rebuilt EMDs from the defunct Maine, Montreal & Atlantic, the Morristown &Erie had re- cently been testing GP7u 23 at Morris- town, N.J., as the first to enter service. This unit will enter general service on
the M&E operations and is expected to be in full M&E livery by summer.
Grand River Railway
Reactivating a line that has been dor- mant since 2002, the Great Lake Port Corporation, doing business as Grand River Railway, purchased 2.56 miles of track from CSX that extends from the interchange at Painesville, Ohio, north through Grand River. Partners Terry L. Feichtenbiner, Tom Nord, and Dave Kelsch purchased the route for for $1,647,584. Feichtenbiner, a former manager with Ohio Central Railroad System, retired from successor Genesee & Wyoming in 2009. The Ohio Rail De- velopment Commission approached Ohio Central about operating the line back in 2003, but the railroad was already com- mitted to other projects at the time.
Brush and trees have been cleared
from the line so that a program of tie re- placement can
begin.The new railroad is working to tap the large industrial base around Painesville and Fairport Harbor as potential customers.
Grafton & Upton
U.S. Congressman James McGovern, (D-Mass.), filed legislation May 7 aimed at placing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) railroad loading facilities under state and local regulation. The bill is tied to a Grafton & Upton Railroad plan to build an LPG transfer facility at its yard in Grafton, Mass. The Surface Transporta- tion Board ruled in favor of the railroad last autumn, ruling that the facility, because it is tied into transportation ac- tivities, would be exempt from state and local bylaws.
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