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.
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).
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?
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]
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.
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.
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.
