NS at Gretna, VA

[BaltACD]

Driving US 29 through Gretna, VA - looks like NS is doing grading work towards adding a track through the area.  Anyone know if this is what is actually happening?

[Cotton Belt MP104]

In these days of “bickering” posts, I appreciate your knowledgeable posts. Hope you can keep your cool when you are bickered at! Reference your post about grading: I read of a transfer (low key = equal tire lift machines vs. mobile huge cranes) site for CSX(?) somewhere near where you saw the above. BUT in further news reports there seemed to be opposition by “Chamber of Commerce types). My question: do you know what I am talking about and if so, what’s the latest on this “conflict = RR vs. CoC type folks?

[Cotton Belt MP104]

 

In these days of “bickering” posts, I appreciate your knowledgeable posts. Hope you can keep your cool when you are bickered at!  Reference your post about grading: I read of a transfer (low key = equal tire lift machines vs. mobile huge cranes) site for CSX(?) somewhere near where you saw the above. BUT in further news reports there seemed to be opposition by “Chamber of Commerce types).  My question: do you know what I am talking about and if so, what’s the latest on this “conflict = RR vs. CoC type folks?

 

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

No, not really.  It's ex-Southern Rwy., and I believe it used to be double track.  Now mostly single, though there's a short siding in town (looks like a lumber or pulpwood yard).  In its 2015 Capital Investment Plan, NS called it part of the Crescent Corridor for intermodal improvements - also "improving track speed" along the line segment from Lynchburg to Manassas as a "PPP" with Virginia: http://nscorp.com/content/dam/nscorp/ship/CustomerServiceCommunication/2015_capital_investment_map.PDF  

Although Gretna is south of Lynchburg, perhaps restoring the 2nd track there is related.

- Paul North.

[Deggesty]

Paul_D_North_Jr

No, not really.  It's ex-Southern Rwy., and I believe it used to be double track.  Now mostly single, though there's a short siding in town (looks like a lumber or pulpwood yard).  In its 2015 Capital Investment Plan, NS called it part of the Crescent Corridor for intermodal improvements - also "improving track speed" along the line segment from Lynchburg to Manassas as a "PPP" with Virginia: http://nscorp.com/content/dam/nscorp/ship/CustomerServiceCommunication/2015_capital_investment_map.PDF  

Although Gretna is south of Lynchburg, perhaps restoring the 2nd track there is related.

- Paul North.

 

Yes, Paul, the Southern used to be double track all the way from AF Tower to Atlanta, and then on out to Austell (where the H line came down from Chattanooga on its way to Brunswick), I believe that it was in the sixties that about half of the second track was taken up and CTC installed--10 miles double (or two), 10 miles single.

[matthewsaggie]

If you are back in the Gretna area on 4/24, the section along 29 will be a nice place to catch, and possibly pace 611 on its Greensboro to Roanoke trip that day.