Peavine cut back again and leased- T 51's last run.

[NW Mailing List]

T51 pulled some 6-7 spine cars that were out at the Sardinia siding.  This would appear to be all of the stored cars out there.  T51 pulled about 25 stored Railbox 62 footers in early January off of the line.  

Gary Rolih

 

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Gary 

   There will no longer be a control point at Vera either. New signals and crossovers

west of VERA. Crossovers at Vera will be removed and the switch to the peavine will

remain as regular electric lock switch.  Did NS pull all the stored cars??

 

Larry Evans

  

"There's the sun, there's the moon, there's the air we breathe, and

there's the Rolling Stones"  Keith Richards


On Apr 28, 2014, at 12:54 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

The Cincinnati District- Portsmouth to Cincinnati was cut in 2003 at the east end of Peebles Siding (under Ohio 32 bridge) and worked from Sharon Yard (ex-CR) with a local train T51.  Recently T51 would pull out to Peebles to load bulkhead flats with company-owned untreated rr ties.  Other business was loading hopper cars at the granary in Winchester as needed and taking box cars of paper rolls to a Chinette paper plate factory in the old Ford plant at Afton- about 7 a week.   

The Peavine was 25mph track and dark territory- it would take T51 two days to make the round trip.  The FRA recently wanted NS to perform track work or the track would be downgraded to 10mph track.  As a consequence, NS has leased this track to Frontier who will operate from AFTON using the switcher that used to be at the Winchester granary to haul cars from Clare Yard to the Huhtamaki paper plate factory at Afton.  The switcher was repainted from the pale gray it had.  T51 made its last run on FRIDAY April 25.

NS will still haul cars from Sharon to be set out at Clare Yard for Frontier as well as hauling tank cars to Clare for QT Tank company.  The contents of these tank cars are distributed among the many chemical plants in the Cincinnati area- P&G, Jergens, etc.

Supposedly, NS will cut the track at the east end of Afton siding.  The ties from Peebles (from local saw mills) will be trucked to Piketon on the Columbus District to be loaded on the bulkhead flats on the short team track near the fairgrounds at Piketon.

I would assume that Frontier will try to regain the granary business; the track is still good for these heavy cars.  

I would assume that Frontier will pick up and deliver loads to Huhtamaki  mid-week to late week this week.

Gary Rolih

Cincinnati

 

 


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