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."
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.
Greatlakes and Atlantic unveils its corporate structure
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.
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.
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.
Yet another atempt to dieselise the Hootervill Cannonball ( running between Oklahoma City and Hootervill first over the RI then over the Hootervill and Chapel Hill RR ) failed. I was proposed that the train use RDC cars, howver this proposal did not go far.
Great Lakes and Atlantic releases 3rd quarter
The Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad announced today that the 3rd quarter came short by $12 dollars due to aggressive investing. The Chairman and CEO of the company said that the fouth quarter would be very profitable because of such a small loss in the third. He predicted that profits will almost double if not double by the end of it. He said that the increase demand on the company to be aggressive against the class 1s was the culprit but promised that the shareholders would not be sorry. As a result, today’s stocks on the S&P went up by 0.09 cents a share. Last year they made 46 million U.S in profits but the final quarter predictions are 89.91 million.
The Chairman and CEO said that his final investment for this year is to invest in more steel loading cars, trash gondolas and hire more track gangs.
From the North Country Times:
Unusual Locomotive Abandoned
New-fangled machine to be converted to steam
The strange locomotive that found its way to the tracks of the Muddy Creek Railroad and caused great consternation among the crew is today facing the cutting torch. The machine was apparently abandoned on company property some time ago and the train crew and mechanics attempted to place it in service with little success.
The machine, fueled by a petroleum-based substance and similar in design to one championed by the late inventor Rudolph Diesel has never proved itself to be useful to the train crews. “The trucks are pretty good, but the rest of the thing was just too damn tricky to run and getting fuel up here in the woods was impossible. We tried converting it to run on corn-squeezins but no luck there,” reported engineer Bud “Steamer” O’Toole. “We took a vote & the result was either the damn thing goes or we go.”
Following management’s decision that the crew can go, a compromise was reached and the strange machine, whose builder’s plate indicates it is a class SW9/1200, will be converted into a reasonable facsimile of a Class A Climax locomotive and sent to join the roster of geared locomotives working in the woods north of Muddy Creek. Though pleased with the addition of the new boiler, Engineer O’Toole conceded that the open wooden cab configuration of the new Climax would not have the comforts of the strange machine from which it is being transformed. “That thing was pretty weird, even for 1917, but damn, those seats were a mite comfortable and I’m gonna miss them windows.”
G&A watches for floods
With flood warning around south western New York state, the Great Lakes and Atlantic is monitoring its ex Buffalo and Pittsburgh lines for signs of floods. The railroad has informed customers involved with the line to be ready for the possibility of the temperary closure of the lines should the flooding reach the lines.
G&A awards contract to Trinity Railcar
As the Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad will be increasing the trash hauling business as the railroad has ordered 150 trash service covered gondolas from Trinity Railcar. This was outlined in the budget due to the increase business from Detroit, Montreal, Boston and now Toronto for trash haulage. The railroad and municipal governments secured the contract with each other through ECDC Environmental Industries.
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The WRRM has managed to secure a rare NYC Baldwin “Sharknose” diesel loco for their growing fleet. The Shark (as it’s already been nicknamed!) will be joining our NYC Fairbanks-Morse C-Liners to form an A-B-A set. Delivery is expected to take place within the next day or two, and the loco will enter service after some minor inspection and adjustment. This lash-up will make an impressive sight operating on our passenger services, and will also provide valuable heavy haulage power for our freight work.
The T & SE short line would like to report the the tunnel construction is proceeding on schedule. We also have a road going up the mountain and will be building company houses up there. The tenents should have a nice viewe of the mill and the rest of the town from their front porch.
G&A announces aid to Louisiana.
In response to the mayhem of Hurricane Ivan, the Great Lakes and Atlantic is proud to announce that is will be offering to evacuate all shortline equipment in the Louisiana area to its secondary yard in Detroit for 1/4 of normal price and help evacuate citizens from New Orleans for no charge. It also says it will help bring in emergency equipment into the state should it be needed and no cost as well.
The chairman and ceo said that “humanitarian aid is the responsibility of all and we are no exception”.
Riverton, NJ–The first train to operate on Conrail’s new Delaware Line operated today, the local, WPRT-1, consisted of Conrail GP38 7894, 15 frieght cars, and a caboose.
Eastern RR, Say as of Sept.26,1950 that is will run the Corridor Limiteds. A all first class coach train from Milbourne to Darby. A 6 trains daily service. A talk of a new train and service to Lester is in the wild.
G&A secures contract with UPS
Tonight the Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad has announced it will be running 6 daily UPS intermodal trains between Chicago and Worchester MA. This was announced after long talks between the railroad and courier heads.
“UPS is a wonderful example how confident our customers feel that we can maintain on-time or even under-time service for with a price that is exceptable to both parties” said the chairman.
The Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad has announced that it has set aside some of their F-40s for this task.
The GDRM&MCo has just announced its order for 50 EMD-GE-GDRMB EFS55MACTs, the production series of the EFS50MACW (PH I & PH II) and the EFS50MACe. These locomotives feature all the latest equipment from all three companies that built these locomotives including the new truck from GDRMB. The other two companies put in prototype trucks for each of the prototype locomotives. 15 of these locomotives have been equiped with the narrow gauge version of the GDRMB HASSTC-III, the HASSTC-IIIN. These locomotives have proved popular with crews that have not been assigned to the AC24000FBDD.
BNSF Power to be Leased by Conrail:
Conrail will be leasing motive power from the BNSF until October 1st on it’s Delaware Line, until this time, Conrail GP38’s, GP40’s, and GP40-2’s on this line, SD80MAC’s are expected to be delivered shortly.