Proposed AS&N C40-9W order

[Anonymous]

ALLENTOWN PA---- The Allentown Scranton & Northern Railroad Company has proposed an order of 4 to 10 General Electric C40-9W's to replace its SD40-2 fleet (all SD40-2's purchased from UP between 1999 and 2003), the C40-9W's will be built to Norfolk Southern Specs but will not be equipped with Cab Signals and LSL. The units, if ordered, will be the first to be painted in the AS&N's new paint scheme.



The Allentown Scranton & Northern owns 500 miles of trackage in three states and is owned by North American Rail Corperation.

[Anonymous]

The AS&N will trade in 15 GP15-1's, 15 SW1500's, and 15 slugs for this order, the 45 units were to be used on terminal railroads in Allentown, Pa, Scranton, Pa, Binghampton, NY, Buffalo, NY, and Newark, NJ but the plan never worked, at the present time the C40-9W's will replace SD40-2's on hotshot intermodel trains 201 (Croxton, NJ to Chicago Ill via Hocking Valley RR Corp), 202 (Chicago to Croxton), 203 (Bethlehem PA to Buffalo, NY), and 204 (Buffalo to Bethlehem).

[Noah Hofrichter]

The AS&N is really expanding fast. Before we know it they may be buying up or laying more track![:O][:D] Seriously though, I do like the paint sceam you've proposed. It'll really be neat once you get it up and running. When do you plan on starting painting models?

Noah

[Anonymous]

Is that Conrail blue and white?

Jim

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter
When do you plan on starting painting models?

As soon as I'm able to start running trains (very soon).

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ironmine
Is that Conrail blue and white?

Yeah, the red is SP red.

[Anonymous]

Maybe AS&N would consider a merger with Sooner State Union lines ? I like the paint sheme ! my line needs to modernize as we still operate with Geeps and doodlebugs [:D][:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

The paint scheme looks good. The conrail blue and SP red go good together.

[trainfan1221]

Sounds like a plan, dougal. Don`t sell yourself short on motive power, though. Diversity
is nice, and SD40-2s aren`t that old.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainfan1221

Sounds like a plan, dougal. Don`t sell yourself short on motive power, though. Diversity
is nice, and SD40-2s aren`t that old.

The SD40-2's will stay in regular freight service for years to come, the C40-9W's are needed on the intermodel trains, I thougth I'd be stuck using the SD40-2's to keep the AS&N prototypical but then I remembered that the New York Susquehanna & Western at one time had over a dozen B40-8's and four SD70M's for use on intermodel trains.

[trainfan1221]

True, they did. All gone now. But you are right that modern power is good on an intermodal
train. After all, they are usually the priority train on any railroad.

[Anonymous]

The units might not even be on the AS&N system much, these units will be used in the pool power agreement with the Hocking Valley (a freinds model railroad). The AS&N will call the units D9-40CW's.

[Anonymous]

Dougal [:)]

Forget the toasters, get some nice Alcos. [;)] [:D]