Freelanced Railroad News Bulletins

[Anonymous]

EASTERN RAILROAD's offices are located in Darby,Pa. Dated in the 1940 and the 50's.
A 4 by 16 ft, HO scale layout. Using E7's and E8's. Also F7 and GP9's. RDC's are used on local services. Bulletins are great and well be senting Eastern bulletins on a later dates.

[joseph2]

You guys might want to read the saga of Toenail Ridge.Every couple months the author adds a chapter of what goes on in a small imaginary western town.Here is a link www.trainweb.org/toenailridge/book.html Joe G.

[Junctionfan]

Greatlakes and Atlantic unveils its corporate structure
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Today the railroad has revealed it has revamped its corporate structure to accomidate the increasing demand for better rail service. It presently had but a CEO, CFO, COO and Cheif of Security. The new positions are as followed

Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Vice President of Security and Legal Services
Vice President of Intermodal and Development
Vice President of Agriculture and Development
Vice President of Mining Commodities and Development
Vice President of Tourism and Public Relations
Vice President of Chemical, Petrochemical and Waste Management
Vice President of Real Estate and Property Management
Vice President of Research
Vice President of Human Resources
Vice President of Supply Logistics and Development
Vice President of Marketing and Customer Services

The Great Lakes and Atlantic hopes that this move will ensure the healthy expansion it has had already and secure its future to becoming a class 1 railroad.

[Junctionfan]

Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad has announced that it has on order 60 ES44AC from General Electric. This move comes as the beginning for the railroad to attempt to replace their locomotive fleet with more fuel efficient and modern locomotives. The number series will be 7000-7059.

[GDRMCo]

From the Townsville Bulliten:
"The GDRM&MCo, the largest mining company in QLD recently announced that operations on the new quad track main from Cairns to Brisbane has recently been opened. Also the railroad has begun to change from standard gauge 4' 8 1/2" to the QLD standard 3' 6" to be able to interchange with Queensland Rail more freely and without double handling the shipments and products. With this change the GDRM&MCo has also electrified the whole system to take advantage of the new electric locomotives of 3900 class on Queensland Rail. These new "motors" as they are referred to will be a more efficient model that will generate up to a maximum of 9000HP a far cry from the two new test units from GE, the AC30000DDW-9s which generate a total of 30000HP alone."

[FThunder11]

Just a few more months till Amtraks new Cross-Country Limited will finally open for passengers. Running from NY to LAX, it cost $85 billion. Amtrak says they will allow BNSF and Union Pacific to use the rails, but must make way for all Amtrak trains.

[Junctionfan]

Hopefully I will see my logo now.

[trainfan1221]

Somewhere in the central US:
Eastern Central railway still not agreeing to buyout offer from other roads. Though CSX and NS both own shares, the railroad will remain an independently operated company. In other news, we have recently leased long-term an SD60 locomotive from EMD to help alleviate a motive power shortage. We also recentl ran an empty platform train to interchange with BNSF and CN(former IC). Business is picking up, and there are plans to survey areas for possible installation of new sidings. All for new.

PS This was fun!

[Junctionfan]

G&A to ship trash!!
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At 6:30pm today est, the Greatlakes and Atlantic Railroad annouced that it will be running tra***rains between Toronto and Chicago. The trash will be loaded at a facility near Brampton and than taken by rail to an incineration plant near Chicago.

This move comes in wake of Toronto City Council getting flak for wanting to dump waste in the old Adam's Mine which would have caused environmental damage to well water for nearby residents. Toronto Mayor David Miller said that he hopes Toronto will start recycling more but for now is happy that the city has a short-term solution to a very trashy problem. The Chairman and Owner of Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad said that this was a great chance to demonstrate how diverse and willing the railroad is and that he would be glad to serve other cities for waste management.

Toronto Works Department estimates it will require operation of the tra***rains twice in a week.

[Pennsy58]

UNION MEMBERS FILE GREVIENCE !!!

The Bessemer and Erie Railroad recently announced a major upgrade of its North Union Repair Yard with the intorduction of electrically operated turnouts. Construction has been halted as yard crews have filed a grevience with the labor relations board. Fears abound that once the yard has been modernized with the Tortoise machines massive layoffs of employees will result. Joe "left index finger" Smith a union spokeman, has vowed to do what ever it takes to pull the plug on this.

A company spokeman has stated that the railroad will move forward in its plans to modernize despite cut wires, faulty soldering, DPDT toggles damaged by spilled coffee and other acts of vandalizim. He did refuse to blame anyone person or group for the problems and it appears the majority of the problems are the result of crews trying to read the installation directives without their glasses on.

Other delays have occurred as a result of the construction of a Super Wal -Mart in the vicinity that has resulted in an increase in sick leave usage from the project. Union representatives say this is a mistake as these should be listed as " the wife has spoken days" not sick days. The railroad appears to be ready to include this type of leave into the contract as they realize that funding is essential to the success of the project. They conceeded that more than funding could be shut off if the leave is not approved.

[Anonymous]

ASNI Folded Into North American Rail Corp

Allentown Scranton & Northern Industries has announced that North American Rail Corp will take over 51% of ASNI stock, NARC already owns 49% of ASNI and owns 100% of the Mojave Western Railroad, headquarters for the Allentown Scranton & Northern Railroad will move from Allentown, PA to
Los Angeles, CA.

[Anonymous]

The WRRM's recent "2 Generations" festival proved a great success. For those who did not attend, the festival featured the latest mainline equipment on show alongside our classic diesels. Our "new" FP7 worked on our set of Metrolink commuter cars, alongside the Erie-Built on its usual consist of C&NW gallery cars and control cab. The Erie's re-engining (and HEP fitting) seems to have been a complete success, even if the new EMD powerplant, fitted to replace the damaged Fairbanks-Morse original, sounds rather different to the original unit!

Mainline operator CSX provided a Dash 9-44CW as a showpiece, though it was also pressed into service on demonstration freights and MU'd to our Dash 8-40B. The pair of C&NW Dash 9-44CWs were also used on a few passenger runs, coupled to the Erie which provided head-end power.

The festival also marked the first public appearence of our Dash 8-40B, which we purchased at auction as a non-runner having been dumped at the back of the local mainline yard for three years. For the past four months it has been laid up in our workshops while our repair crews worked to rectify problems with the front truck and the power unit. The truck problems were mainly due to missing bolts, and some problems relating to incorrect re-assembly after servicing (probably dating back to the unit's last overhaul by a now-defunct workshop business while still in mainline service). The power plant has had all oils and filters replaced, and now runs sweetly, though the smokescreen effect of starting up for the first time in over three years had to be seen to be believed! We have managed to secure the agreement of CSX Transportation to retain their paint scheme on this unit, and it was seen working in multiple with their Dash 9-44CW during the festival - those hours overhauling the MU equipment were not wasted!

[Anonymous]

The RI and the Katy have decided to begin deiselization on The Oklahoma Mexico & Gulf. They have purchased 4 GP7s for the line as well as leasing a number of thier own locos to thier new subsiderary. It was originaly planned that the OM&G become part of the Katy and the Rock, but it was decided that the line would keep it's name and managment. another line, the Chapel Hill Northern has bought the OM&G's clarksvill branch and has begune operations from clarksvill to Oklahoma City. The OM&G will continue to run trains on the line, to get to It's Line Between Dodge City, KS and Altus, OK.

[MAbruce]

Bizarre Train Collision Claims Life of Unknown Animal

UPI – Belmar Valley WV. Investigators in this sleepy whistle stop valley are still guessing at what a Norfolk & Western express freight train struck yesterday. According to officials, the lead locomotive of a fast moving freight train struck and killed an animal that was in the tracks approximately 50 yards inside a tunnel leading into the Belmar Valley. Exactly what they struck remains a mystery.

“We were close to the end of the tunnel at the maximum posted speed when we felt a thud.” Clarence Jones, the Engineer explained, “I put the train into full emergency and stopped a couple minutes later. We walked the train but only found remains of something scattered all over the place. It couldn’t have been a person because it was too big a strike. The nose of my engine was a mess, and I understand the shop is still pulling the guts of something out of the lead trucks.”

Local police and state animal control specialist examined the remains at the scene a short time later. They confirmed it was not a person, but were unable to identify the animal involved. “My first guess is a cow, but there hasn’t been a working farm around here in many years.” Explained police Sergeant Iam Blind, “But there was no red blood, just tan goo all over the place.”

State animal control specialists denied finding any odd body parts, and offered no explanation for their special armed SWAT escort in the tunnel.

“There be some awful strange things on that there mountain.” A local resident reluctantly explained, “This is not the first time this has happened. They had a whole [expletive deleted] Marine battalion here the last time.

A search of local news stories failed to turn up any account of previous animal strikes. The investigation continues.

[ClinchValleySD40]

Originally posted by Junctionfan

Do you mean another sub-forum in the model railroader forum?


There already is, the PFMSig group on Yahoo. If anyone here has not checked out all the different groups over on Yahoo, you're in for a real big surprise. There are litterally 100's of them.

Larry

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