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Re: (erielack) FW: CNJ - EL Coke Trains from Overseas

I know some of you are quite certain these trains were loaded in Jersey City, but is there any possibility they may have originated at Port Reading? I'm not familiar with the facilities there, but presumably it handled mostly bulk commodities. The trains could have come up through Rahway to E'port, or west on the RDG to Mannville, although getting to the CNJ would have involved a one mile backup move from M'ville to Bound Brook Jct.

Paul B

Thanks to lister George Tomczyk for forwarding this conversion he had
with CNJ authority Frank Reilly regarding the CNJ-EL coke trains...

- - Paul


> > Over on the Erie-Lack list we are having a discussion
> >about a jointly operated train designated SEX (no
> >joke) which is supposed to have originated with a foreign collier 
> >unloaded by CNJ into CNJ cars and jointly powered via the High Bridge

> >Branch to a steel
> >plant on the DL&W. The questions are would it have been unloaded in 
> >Jersey City and what equipment would
> >have unloaded it? I have seen equipment on other roads
> >to accomplish this, but did the CNJ have coke unloaders in Jersey 
> >City?

>     I seem to remember we did handle Coke for a short time on the CNJ,

> but don't remember the details of transloading it from ship to hopper 
> car.  It would have had to be unloaded on Dock 6 or 7, which were open

> piers for transferring bulk material to and from ocean going ships.
> They had a set of tracks down the middle of the pier for rail cranes 
> used in loading and unloading ships with the freight car tracks on 
> either side.  I'd be interested in learning (refreshing my memory) on 
> the CNJ - EL Coke trains.
> Frank


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