Eastern Railroad Discussion > n.s. pokey pushers

does the n.s. still use pushers on the pokey or are the coal/grain drags dpu'd?

thanks for any info..........

66

Pusher jobs still being used

DeutzHDL Wrote:
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> Pusher jobs still being used

thanks for the info. does the n.s. utilize any dpu operations on the pokey?

66

I was up on the "Pokey" in May for three days. At that time all 5 sets of pushers were beung used. Two of the pushers were Heritage units for Southern and Conrail were being used at that time. Brings back alot of memories for me, as my Dad went to work for Southern Railway in 1925 as a fireman, and was promoted to engineer in 1952. Was really nice to see the old Southern colors.

ns6704 Wrote:
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> I was up on the "Pokey" in May for three days. At
> that time all 5 sets of pushers were beung used.
> Two of the pushers were Heritage units for
> Southern and Conrail were being used at that time.
> Brings back alot of memories for me, as my Dad
> went to work for Southern Railway in 1925 as a
> fireman, and was promoted to engineer in 1952. Was
> really nice to see the old Southern colors.

where the pushers also on grain and manifests or just coal drags?

thanks for any info,

66

goneon66 Wrote:
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> ns6704 Wrote:
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> > I was up on the "Pokey" in May for three days.
> At
> > that time all 5 sets of pushers were beung
> used.
> > Two of the pushers were Heritage units for
> > Southern and Conrail were being used at that
> time.
> > Brings back alot of memories for me, as my Dad
> > went to work for Southern Railway in 1925 as a
> > fireman, and was promoted to engineer in 1952.
> Was
> > really nice to see the old Southern colors.
>
> where the pushers also on grain and manifests or
> just coal drags?
>
> thanks for any info,
>
> 66

Anything with sufficient tonnage gets a push.

PittsburghMike Wrote:


> Anything with sufficient tonnage gets a push.


And that includes regular manifests. I've seen the auto parts trains (194/195 IIRC; those numbers are a few years old) getting pushed.

BobE

The only things using DPU are some of the power plant utility coal trains and maybe a few of the stack trains if length and tonnage warrants one.

Brett E

goneon66 Wrote:
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> DeutzHDL Wrote:
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> > Pusher jobs still being used
>
> thanks for the info. does the n.s. utilize any
> dpu operations on the pokey?
>
> 66

DeutzHDL Wrote:
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> The only things using DPU are some of the power
> plant utility coal trains and maybe a few of the
> stack trains if length and tonnage warrants one.

I don't think any intermodals have gone to DPU on the Pokey but there may be a coal train or 2 that run that way out there. 233, 234 and 236 definitely don't run DPU. Most of the time it is manned helper sets according to tonnage and most size-able trains get a push.

Hank

The intermodal train with a DPU is 23G and 22A, they go via Bristol TN and have multilevels too. 23G usually passes the Roanoke cam mid-day, and is sometimes so short it makes you wonder why they use a DPU, but it may setoff cars at Roanoke. DPUs are used on the Belews Creek coal trains, often two per day, on the Winston-Salem district. Thay are added at South Roanoke. Trains usually 105 cars.