Thursday, March 08, 2007

A black and blue Sunday...

(Train sightings on 3/4/07)

along the Lehigh Line in Manville and Three Bridges. Every unit seen today had either a NS or ex-CR unit. Even CSX's Q300 had a ex-CR as a leader and NS 9294 for power. In time sequence, the trains seen were as follows:

7:51-NS 214 (Manville); NS 7141, NS 7136, NS 7147 and NS 7144 would take the Port Reading Secondary to its destination.

8:35-NS 11J (Manville); PRR 6718 (ex-CR 5578) and NS 9552 was in charge of ninety-nine autoracks, estimated length was 9,300 feet and weighing in around 5,000 tons (at least that what was mentioned over the radio. NS 9552 was the leader on Saturday's NS 18N.

9:35-NS 24V (Manville); not definte about this intermodal's symbol that had NS 2610 and NS 2727 for power.

10:00-NS 212 (Manville); NS 6685 and NS 9810 was the power consist for this train.

10:54-CSX Q300 (Manville); Thank goodness for having a scanner or else I might have mistaken this for an NS train. Power was NYC 8457 (ex-LMS 717) and NS 9294.




??:??-NS 20K (Three Bridges); Place this train in the heard but not seen category as I was in transit from Manville to Three Bridges when I heard it on the scanner calling signals at MP 45. [Chicago, IL to North Bergen, NJ]

11:08-NS 20W (Three Bridges); Yes, that is the symbol heard over the scanner as it passed by MP 45. Motive power on this intermodal was NS 2743 and NS 2766. [Los Angeles, CA to Croxton, NJ]

12:20-NS 18G (Three Bridges); had a PRR leader and second unit was an NS diesel. Sorry about not jotting the numbers as the pencil's point broke-DARN!