Re: (erielack) Delaware, NJ

[Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com]

Dear Bob,

Hmmm.  I'm wondering what changed on the Pennsy side (out of the power
plant) that allowed them to remove the trackage to the eastern side of the
bridge in Delaware, which supposedly was to allow the widening of Rt. 46.
Certainly the unit coal trains haven't gotten any shorter over time.  I
haven't observed the operations inside the plant's trackage, although
obviously they need to dump the cars sometime after they arrive and then
stage them for the return trip.  I wonder how far out onto the bridge the
trains now venture, or if it's only the units that go out onto the bridge?

Chuck



                                                                                                                                      
                      Robert Stafford                                                                                                 
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Chuck Welsh wrote:
On the Delaware side that's interesting
what
you say about ConAgra since it never made sense that
the track was left
in
over Rt. 46 and then some unless there was a customer
there.  Although,
as
you're probably aware, the odd configuration of the PA
trackage for the
GPU
plant in Portland necessitates partial use of the
bridge over the
Delaware
River, it never made sense until now that the trackage
extended as far
as
it did.

Chuck

The storage of cars for Con Agra was not part of the
reason tracks where left at Delaware, NJ. The trackage
beyond Delaware was removed about 1970. Con Agra did
not purchase the old cement mills until 1972. The unit
trains began the fall/winter of 1973. The first
storgae of cars happened in 1974.
Would suggest the reason the track at Delaware was
still in place was to make sure their was enough of a
tail track lead to pull a full train out of the power
plant and then shove it back toward Portland. Also I
think Delaware was still listed as an station in the
open and prepaid. Anyone have a 1971 O&P book to look
up Delaware in?
Bob Stafford




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