Mainline Shove
Here we find a bit of an unusual move on the Richfied Springs Branch of the New York, Susquehanna & Western at Richfield Springs, NY.
Henry Greenblatt is braving the bitter January weather as he protects the rear.....um, excuse me, the front of his train. You see, this empty tank car that held fertilizer was spotted on the main at South Columbia for a new customer, Key Fertilizer.
It's kind of strange that there was no siding for the customer built and that a tank car would be spotted on a main track located on a Form 19 train order dispatcher controlled line.
If a load were coming in, it would be placed on the rear of the train when leaving Richfield Springs, and spotted, or dare I say, left on the main where Key would unload it. The next trip to the Springs, the train would couple onto the car and push it the rest of the way, which is what we see here, to where there was a run around track. Interesting short line move, but I certainly would not want to be Henry.
This was my last visit to the Richfield line. The last run to RS was in July 24, 1986. After that, service was cut back to West Winfield and the weeds took over this portion.
Mainline Shove
Here we find a bit of an unusual move on the Richfied Springs Branch of the New York, Susquehanna & Western at Richfield Springs, NY.
Henry Greenblatt is braving the bitter January weather as he protects the rear.....um, excuse me, the front of his train. You see, this empty tank car that held fertilizer was spotted on the main at South Columbia for a new customer, Key Fertilizer.
It's kind of strange that there was no siding for the customer built and that a tank car would be spotted on a main track located on a Form 19 train order dispatcher controlled line.
If a load were coming in, it would be placed on the rear of the train when leaving Richfield Springs, and spotted, or dare I say, left on the main where Key would unload it. The next trip to the Springs, the train would couple onto the car and push it the rest of the way, which is what we see here, to where there was a run around track. Interesting short line move, but I certainly would not want to be Henry.
This was my last visit to the Richfield line. The last run to RS was in July 24, 1986. After that, service was cut back to West Winfield and the weeds took over this portion.