Sunday, May 18, 2008

Bayonne Rail Yard

Received the following via email from 5/3/08 postings to CRRNJ@yahoogroups.com by Rich, who works in the Bayonne, NJ rail yard. I have arranged them in chronological order.

On Wednesday, we had 197 cars physically in the yard on our 17 yard tracks. We had 80 cars inbound from O.I, plus an additional 80 or so w/b's that O.I. could not handle.
(Note: O.I. is Oak Island yard)

Question:
Just out of curiosity, how many diesels does the yard employ and what types are they? I've often wanted to ask this question but have not known whom to ask. I've also been fascinated by the collection of Canadian freight cars standing in the yard; CN, CV, NO etc.

Response:
Most of the Canadien box cars in the yard are newsprint cars for the Daily News Plant near Liberty State Park. Sometimes we also get Canadien cars loaded with Bricks for a distributor on the Pier 18 lead. This has led to some funny incidents if you're not watching your car numbers. One job does both customers...

As for locomotives...We get anything and everything...Usually we have two GP-38-s's and/or GP-40-2's plus any kind of a third engine from exRDG SW-1001's to GP-15's to new GE Widecabs. (Just before I bumped back last month they had one over there for a few days.) Right now we have two exCR GP-38-s's (NS 5291-NS 5292, both still in Blue) an exCR SW-1001 (CSX 1123) and a CSX SD-50 (8522 exSBD/L&N...it has a headlight in the low nose).