Eastern Railroad Discussion > River line washout...

Well, not exactly..

Spent the day in the greater Albany area, saw pretty much nothing!

Drove around Selkirk, no foreign power to be seen. Still nice to see CR SD40-2's working around..

Everytime I went somewhere else, I saw a train entering or leaving the yard and not enough time to go get it...

Headed down Route 9W, kept chasing an EOT signal, couldn't find the train, but found a green signal and no train to pass it.

Did see a neat MOW vehicle going down the line, but no where to shoot it. Went over to the Hudson Line, and three trains went down the River Line. Went BACK to the River Line, and I heard the detectors going off for two Amtrak Trains.

Not a good day.

The only good side to this day, I was able to take a shot of GRMS1, saw a large local with two SD40-2's down the line next to the Selkirk FD (never have seen a train on this line), saw a nice car fire on I87, and I think someone jumped off of a bridge by Kinston on I87 (lots o PD cars, FD cars, 1 EMS and everyone looking over the bridge), and one good old Cold War site in Kingston.

Anyone else have such a bad day?

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Bummer.

I've found that staking out a place with a good book and the scanner works best there. You're gonna miss 75% anyway.

If I'm in the Selkirk area, I usually try to monitor the yard channel (160.86?) around 7 am. They usually give a lineup for yard work, which is a good indication of what's in the pipe.

Upbound River Line trains often get yarding instructions about Coxsackie or so, so that's a 45 min. They usually remind the east end switcher about inbound Boston Line trains, same for guys working the west end. Safety first!

Cops will sometimes be directed to eyeball outbound TOFC, too.

I had a good day on Saturday up there, but with the trackwork going on the River Line, it has been slow. Three times recently been up there and seen only occasional UP or CN, GRS and CP #259 arriving about 4pm or so....

Try running up to Kenwood yard for a cople of trains, maybe Mahwak yard too. And definitely monitor channels 160.86 (Selkirk yard) and 160.98 (River Line aka NJ dispatcher not New Jersey)

Sightings from Saturday:
Saturday started slowly across from MP 71:
600am Q108 SB ?? power COFC/TOFC told to help re-arm marker for E473 (empty coal train to KY via Selkirk) at Haverstraw! Haven't heard that number before, Q164 is also downthere...

620am Q110 SB ?? power TOFC short

730am Q157 NB Q157 CSX 9029-CSX 9027 COFC

900am E473 NB GCFX 3070-HLCX/exUP 569 coal empties

915am Q111 NB CSX 502-CSX 540 TOFC

Catskill, NY E473 and Q111 meet:
1015am Q409 SB CSX 659-CSX 7623 manifest

1030am Q433 SB CSX 619-CSX 7685 manifest

At CP-SK, E473 lost his air and I caught up finally:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hudsonriverrail/files/E47313.jpg

Q111 was sent around him to check it out, all OK

Just as I pull into Ben's Bridge heard the call for Q351 so off I go:
Game Farm Road

1215pm E473 WB GCFX 3070-HLCX/exUP 569 coal empties

1230pm Q166? EB CR 7319-CSX 7735-CSX 7604-CSX 7785 TOFC

1240pm Q169 WB CSX 744-CSX 763 TOFC

100pm Q351 WB UP 4393 (SD70M no flags)-UP 6028 (SD60)-UP 3424 (snoot SD40-2!) UPFE boxcars and manifest, 614 axles!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hudsonriverrail/files/Q35113UP.jpg

115pm V840 EB CSX 105-CSX 257 coal loads for ???, I thought this was V806 but they said V840!

145pm K276 EB CSX 8748 (Dark Future)-CSX 712 trash empties/manifest from the long way around due to the tracks work, they end up a day late

215pm K277 WB CSX 8741-CSX 302-CSX 8387 (grey SD40-2) trash/manifest going the long way around due to the tracks work. As slow as it was on the River Line, could have just sent him south instead....

230pm Q371 WB CSX 7615-CSX 4408 manifest

245pm Q621? WB CSX 7XXX-CSX 8365-CR 7139 manifest/mostly hoppers

Heard Q118 leave, also a Q436 so back to CP-SK:
250pm Q426? EB (Boston Line) missed power manifest

300pm L436 EB CR 7303-CSX 7382-CSX 7390 manifest

315pm Q268 WB CR 7393-CSX 8057-GCFX 3069 (even though sister of ghost 3070, was in shiny "FURX" paint) Autoracks

330pm W893 EB CSX 6239 Delivery to Springfield (confirmed by dispatcher!) Only load is PTDX 204 with one large (Asea Brown Boveri) ABB transformer.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hudsonriverrail/files/W89313ABBXformer.jpg

Drove up to Kenwood to get D&H 259, Al Whalen reported this may be abolished!
430pm D&H 259 SB CP 9015 (Red barn)-CP 6603-CP 5828 about 30 cars long. 5828 had it's fire extinguisher door open, d'oh!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hudsonriverrail/files/DH259.jpg

Headed back home to rescue my wife:
CP-SK
500pm Q417 SB CSX 8786-CSX 8257-FURX 3011 manifest
meet with:
515pm K276 NB CSX 8783-CSX 8392-CSX 696 trash empties

Catskill, NY
545pm Q404 NB CSX 9025-CSX 7815-CSX 7700 manifest

All quiet so went out for beer run at Highland, heard S279 held at Milton for 2 SBs:
800pm Q417 SB CSX 8786-CSX 8257-FURX 3011 manifest

830pm Q152 SB UP UP 7536-UP 4479 TOFC Shocked to see this one with the sunset, but blew the shot big time (!&%$#!)

900pm Q410 NB CSX 7687-CSX 720 manifest

910pm S279 NB CSX 8446-CSX 7631 all articulated autoracks (BNSF/CSX).
These are very quiet too...

22 trains, 2 UP powered, a darn fine day.
Thanks for help with numbers from MM27J