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From: "Paul Brezicki" doctorpb AT bellsouth DOT net
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 11:57:07 -0400
Subject: DS Report, 5/19/72
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Hi Folks,

I'm ready to resume sending. First off is a single 5/72 from Hoboken, the
reason will soon be obvious. Then 3 Y'towns from the 3rd week of June/72.
After that, the Agnes fun really begins, because I'm going to try to
correlate multiple daily reports, so expect a weekly post for that period
thru mid-July. Then we'll finish July and on to December.

This is the Hoboken second trick report covering the NY Division for Friday,
May 19. This is all territory east of PO and SC. You will see coverage of
trains approaching the NY Div from the west, alerting YM, crew caller etc at
PO and SC. JY were the call letters for Erie's DS Office at Jersey City.
After the merger, the DS office was moved to the former DLW station at
Hoboken, but the call letters were retained.

Here's some other call letters you should jot down:

GF: Gulf summit

GB: Greycourt

DW: Middletown

NJ: Newburgh Jct (Harriman)

SF: Suffern

MW: Mahwah

WJ: Ridgewood Jct

BT: Passaic Jct (with NYSW)

RN: Paterson

WC: Waldwick

HX: Hackensack Draw (W end of CX)

SFE-100: Right off the bat, we have an anomaly on our hands. This train was
due PO at 0900 and I suspect it was for the most part, unclassified, ie no
separate CX block. Mahwah parts, plus any headend H&W or rush cars, could be
fw east by TC-4, which was due PO at around the same time. At 1646 it
departed, having been reclassified for MW/SF (s/o at Hillburn Yd) NWSW and
CX. But as well as EL power, a pair of PC U-boats is in the consist
(U33C/U25C). By this time, PC and EL were pooling power between PO and Cedar
Hill (New Haven), and favored 6-axle GE's for the hilly Maybrook line. SOP
was for PC power to ar PO in late morning with NE-97, then turn east on
NE-74 the same afternoon. But 74 is MIA. A couple possibilities: it derailed
somewhere W of Bingo, or less likely, there was a derailment on the Maybrook
line, stranding the PC power but happening early enough to divert the NE
section through Utica and combine the NY section with another train. The PC
power is evidently making one or two round trips (see BT turn later) until
normalcy is restored. PO is turning out to be a mysterious place; recall the
vanished BN power from one of the September sheets.

DN-90: Simply called "90", it's traditional symbol until the alpha was added
with Dereco. Interesting train: Originated N&W-Detroit the previous evening,
its tall cars were floated across the Detroit R to the joint CN/N&W yard at
Windsor, ON. The train was reassembled and hustled to Bison yard in 7 hours,
where it was switched again, then operated as an EL train to CX. It handled
autoparts, mostly hy-cubes for Ford-MW and autoracks for Boutell in JC, both
for second-morning delivery. But not tonight. Looked like OT at PO until it
derailed 6 or 8 cars at GF, blocking both tracks. It was supposed to
exchange its GP35's for divisional power that will be required for the Stone
Train (Gladstone branch?).

I'm going to have to stop here, as this "quick" report is trying to become a
book project, and I have a long list of things to do. Will finish later this
week.

Paul B





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