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Ok, NS will pick it up from the scrapyard and they will take it to Strasburg. NS has a local that goes to the scrapyard twice aweek, so they will pick it up on Friday.

Ten more of our new units have arrived at Sharonville yard near Cincinnati and have been activated. They are 45CWDC's 5310-5319. About 50 of the AC4400CW's have been rounded up and sent into storage so far, the remaining 60 should be taken off line and put into storage by the end of next week. Reports are that 20 of the 68 stored C44-9W's have been repainted and relettered PCLX. Just to differentiate them from our primary units, they are being painted PC green with white lettering(this is the same color we use to paint our freight cars).

Trains on the Penn Central system at 7am:

Western Region
Fort Wayne Division
Amtrak #1 is at Delphos, OH(Broadway Limited)
INCH-1 is at Arcola, IN(PC 5104 and 5106)
PIJA-1 is at Crestline, OH(PC 5205 and 5208)
FWCP-44 is departing 55th Street yard Chicago, IL(PC 5014 and 5008)
CJPI-1 is at Warsaw, IN(PC 5503 and 5507)
FWPI-1A is at Ada, OH(PC 6457, 6982, 6314)
BRFW-1 is at Junction Tower Ft. Wayne, IN(PC 6845 and 6777)
PRFW-1 is at 55th Street yard Chicago, IL waiting on a crew change(UP 4589, 6667, 4400)
NS 40T is at Lima, OH(NS 8803, 6804, 7705)
CHTO-1 is at Delphos, OH(PC 6967 and 6989)
CSX Q316 is at Hamlet, IN(CSXT 3043 and 3076)
FWDR-4884 is at Hoagland, IN(PC 3025 and 3054)
Jackson Division
JAFW-1 is at Auburn Jct, IN(PC 7709, 7945, 3015, 7078)
WJHI-1 is departing Hillsdale, MI(PC 1602)
TV9 is at Howe, IN(PC 5019 and 5018) - yes that is a real town name!
Toledo Division
TOPI-1 is at Fostoria, OH(PC 6688 and 6915)

Southern Region
Chicago Division
TV210 is at Star City, IN(PC 5020 and 5021)
Mail-92 is at Dolton, IL(PC 5505 and 5016)
Columbus Division
JACI-1 is at Richmond, IN(PC 6573 and 6524)
INSP-1 is at Arcanum, OH(PC 6493 and 6433)
CIPI-1 is at Xenia, OH(PC 7744, 3063, 7971)
St. Louis Division
VIIN-1 is at Beehunter, IN(PC 6777 and 6785)
TV17 is at Columbus, IN(PC 5145 and 5128)
Indianapolis Division
TV21 is at Woods Tower in Indianapolis, IN(PC 6701 and 6744)
NS 55T is at Leesburg, IN(BNSF 5307, UP 1983[WP], 6756) unit grain train

PC Motive Power update:

New Power
45CWDC 5300-5319
45CWAC 5200-5209

Stored
C44-9W 6151-6200 NOTE 1
C44-9W 6600-6619 NOTE 1
AC4400CW 6201-6239 NOTE 1
AC4400CW 6631-6640 NOTE 1
SD70MAC 6620-6625
SD70M 6626-6630
NOTE 1
Stored pending conversion to PCLX leasing units

Do you own the trackage from Cincinnati Ohio to Xenia and on up to Columbus? If not would you be interested in a partnership once the CSE gets up on its feets and gets our power crunch solved?

Five GP35-3s are coming your way in about an hour for a ride to Cincinnati.

8 more 45-CWACs and 2 45-CWDCs are on their way up NS now.

I&Ofan4life wrote:Do you own the trackage from Cincinnati Ohio to Xenia and on up to Columbus? If not would you be interested in a partnership once the CSE gets up on its feets and gets our power crunch solved?

I do own the C&X Branch from Cincy to Xenia and I also happen to own the ex PRR Undercliff yard as well. I am willing to negotiate a selling price for Undercliff but PC has to retain trackage rights through the yard so our trains can access the C&X Branch and also retain the right to reclaim Undercliff if you go and build your own yard. I would be willing to allow trackage rights over the C&X and my mainlines to Columbus if you so desire, just let me know and we can negotiate terms for that as well.

FYI, I also own the ex NYC from Cincinnati thru Dayton and Springfield to Columbus and I also own the ex PRR from London to Xenia to Dayton. Other lines down near Cincy that I own are the Carlisle Branch from Carlisle Jct to West Manchester and the Springfield Branch from Springfield to Indianapolis.

legostudios34 wrote:8 more 45-CWACs and 2 45-CWDCs are on their way up NS now.

Thanks for the heads up, if NS does like they've been doing, they'll be here by Friday

Yesterday PC ran CIR-401, the circus train, from Columbus to Cincinnati and it was reported by Carlisle, OH at 6:45pm. This was the blue train and power was PC 2054 and NS 2754 & 2549. The PC unit was cut off in Cincinnati and the train continued on its way to Memphis, TN.

conrailman75 wrote:Yesterday PC ran CIR-401, the circus train, from Columbus to Cincinnati and it was reported by Carlisle, OH at 6:45pm. This was the blue train and power was PC 2054 and NS 2754 & 2549. The PC unit was cut off in Cincinnati and the train continued on its way to Memphis, TN.

The blue unit wont be going through Memphis this year. Its going through Chattanooga and High Point and Rome is going to handle it over the Alabama division to Birmingham.

We will give you trackage rights and the priotity dispatching over CSE trains and we could split cost of expanding the yard as we accuried the Peavine and now need the yard but since we are the smaller road we will fit to your ideas too.

I&Ofan4life wrote:We will give you trackage rights and the priotity dispatching over CSE trains and we could split cost of expanding the yard as we accuried the Peavine and now need the yard but since we are the smaller road we will fit to your ideas too.

In reality, you're better off building a brand new yard at a different location because the real Undercliff was abandoned in the 70's because it was too small with no room to expand. In the paper railroad world, I use it for locals and as a set off/pick up yard, since our main Cincinnati yard is at Sharonville. So I will lease you Undercliff yard to use as your primary yard until you can build your own elsewhere with PC having trackage rights on the mainline through it to access the C&X Branch.

Okay thats a deal. CSE has accuried land but its still going to be a tight fit for us there. Penn Central is lucky in having Sharonville. We do have Clare yard on the peavine but even thats a small yard but we will use it for transfer runs to.
By the way CSE is starting to run unit stone trains and we were wondering if the PC could take a train to Chicago. We will hand it off to you if you want at Clare

We've got another thing for the CSE. Please Deliver #4007 (a brand new GP60-3SLG) to Cincinnati.

MQT3001 wrote:We've got another thing for the CSE. Please Deliver #4007 (a brand new GP60-3SLG) to Cincinnati.

#4008 is heading south on the PC to the CSE to go to the Carolina southern. Arrived at Hughart at 7:34 EDT

The 4008 and 4007 were delivered to the CSE on Saturday by the GRCI-8.

CSE, we definitely can handle your stone traffic to Chicago at Cincinnati, our crews can pick it up at Undercliff and then head it up to Chicago. Who in Chicago should I hand it off to?

It's going to the Union Pacific

Okay, I will make sure your trains get routed to Proviso then.

More new units on line now:

5211-5217 45CWAC
5320-5321 45CWDC

The entire fleet of AC4400CW and C44-9W have been stored and are being repainted and relettered into new PCLX colors in preparation for the launch of our leasing fleet on June 1st. New PCLX numbers will be announced shortly.