Eastern Railroad Discussion > CSX relocates Selkirk hump

Just returned home to find in the new issue of TRAINS (March 2019 p34) that CSX has relocated the hump yard at Selkirk to central Ohio. Somehow, this has not been reported yet on the web, so score one for printed media. 

Is this Precision Railroading at work, or Precision Journalism?

 

Second time in recent memory  that they’ve put out a poorly fact checked graphic. Their article on the Freedom Train had its routing from Albany into Vermont on the wrong route. 

Talk about confusing. Where did they relocate the hump to?

march_hare Wrote:
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> Just returned home to find in the new issue of
> TRAINS (March 2019 p34) that CSX has relocated the
> hump yard at Selkirk to central Ohio. Somehow,
> this has not been reported yet on the web, so
> score one for printed media. 
>
> Is this Precision Railroading at work, or
> Precision Journalism?

Yesterday I was actually considering resubscribing to Trains after a lapse of many years.

Maybe not!

The new hump is in Sterling, OH, near RU Tower, and right behind Bradley's Restaurant.  Given the amount of rail traffic coming off the Cleveland Sub and CL&W Subs, it seemed like a good location......

MEKoch Wrote:
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> The new hump is in Sterling, OH

Selkirk, Sterling ... what's the difference.

Isn't Sterling the site of a major auto assembly plant?

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Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> Isn't Sterling the site of a major auto assembly
> plant?
>

Sterling Heights is in Michigan, north of Detroit. The Sterling referenced here is in Ohio, south of Cleveland.

Does anyone have photos of the hump being trucked from Selkirk to Ohio?  That would be interesting to see...
 

You can dissassemble a hump into tiny pieces then transport it by dump truck or hopper car to the new site.
gonut

march_hare Wrote:
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> Just returned home to find in the new issue of
> TRAINS (March 2019 p34) that CSX has relocated the
> hump yard at Selkirk to central Ohio. Somehow,
> this has not been reported yet on the web, so
> score one for printed media. 

Too bad it wasn't the April issue

Guess they wrote that on a Wednesday.

toledopatch Wrote:
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> Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> > Isn't Sterling the site of a major auto
> assembly
> > plant?
> >
>
> Sterling Heights is in Michigan, north of Detroit.
> The Sterling referenced here is in Ohio, south of
> Cleveland.

Thanks

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Please post links as not much about this new yard is online.  Thank you.

Northern Wrote:
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> Please post links as not much about this new yard
> is online.  Thank you.

The entire thread is obtusely describing a map error in TRAINS magazine. There is no new yard.
 

I agree that this is not about mistaken facts, but about a map positioning error.  Yard number 21, Selkirk, should have been positioned in eastern NY.  Yard number 24, Moorman, should have been positioned where the number 21 was located on the map.in north central OH.

lx15841 Wrote:
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> I agree that this is not about mistaken facts, but
> about a map positioning error.  Yard number 21,
> Selkirk, should have been positioned in eastern
> NY.  Yard number 24, Moorman, should have been
> positioned where the number 21 was located on the
> map.in north central OH.

It's still winter, gotta have some fun with something....

In a recent issue of Trains Magazine they had a article by Jerry Day that was titled that the Southern Pacific #18 was getting its exercise in NM.  Some how he relocated the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge RR over 30 miles south into New Mexico.

Why can't TrainOrder put every railroad name into their spell checker so Durango for example, is not flagged?

spwolfmtn Wrote:
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> lx15841 Wrote:
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> > I agree that this is not about mistaken facts,
> but
> > about a map positioning error.  Yard number
> 21,
> > Selkirk, should have been positioned in eastern
> > NY.  Yard number 24, Moorman, should have been
> > positioned where the number 21 was located on
> the
> > map.in north central OH.
>
> It's still winter, gotta have some fun with
> something....

Why didn't they relocate it to Florida?

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