Over the last week I have seen CSX trains using the New York Susquehanna and Western Railway’s line through Passaic and Sussex Counties in New Jersey including my town of Vernon NJ. Does anyone know why they are detouring over the NYS&W? I hope they continue for a while, I enjoy seeing them.
ap 621 first welcome to the forums.the reason for the detouring trains is the flooding that has recently happened over there plus csx had a derailment I believe in upstate new york.over here the I&O is using your susie q sd 70macs 4050-4054. if you want pics email me.
stay safe
joe
HEY JoeKoh. CSX line was flood,but didn’t hear a derailment on my scanner. CSX is doing alot alot of track work on the chicago main line. That is why some trains were detoured.
The repair work in the Mohawk valley has trains running late on the old NYC, espically Amtrak’s! Which should be NO surprise to anyone familiar with the situation up here in the generally neglected part of the NYSSR! The detour moves usually are on the B&O route to Baltimore, then into New Jersey on Conrail (shared Assets/metro NJ/NY). During the flood, they went north (sort of ) on CN or CP, then back “home” on New England Central for traffic to New England. Once CP got the D&H south of Saratoga back up and running, most of the detours went there. Then when, the B&O was back up and running (it had been briefly affected) the canadian detours ended.