PIGGYBACKER
Conrail Riverline northbound with a solid consist of trailers on flatcars rolling past the Orange & Rockland Generating Station in Tomkins Cove NY. The siding to the left next to the Hudson River was a dropping off spot for loaded coal trains that fueled the plant. Today that beat up old siding is where opposing mainline freights can pass each other in the CP36, CP38 area and the generating station has been torn down years ago. The generating station site was used as a staging area for the movement of heavy steel and materials for the building and dismantling of the new and old Tappan Zee Bridge. I was surprised that some road sections of the old bridge were once again reused for other road projects and I am not sure what is going on at the ex plant site at this time. I was shooting wide open with ASA 64 Kodak film and managed at least to get the numberboards readable. Some railroads called them Van trains or Railvan trains but I used the name Piggyback. What was Conrail's preferred name for these trains?
SD40-2 6524, SD40-2 6520, SD40-2 6363. Howard Kent Jr. 10-1982.
PIGGYBACKER
Conrail Riverline northbound with a solid consist of trailers on flatcars rolling past the Orange & Rockland Generating Station in Tomkins Cove NY. The siding to the left next to the Hudson River was a dropping off spot for loaded coal trains that fueled the plant. Today that beat up old siding is where opposing mainline freights can pass each other in the CP36, CP38 area and the generating station has been torn down years ago. The generating station site was used as a staging area for the movement of heavy steel and materials for the building and dismantling of the new and old Tappan Zee Bridge. I was surprised that some road sections of the old bridge were once again reused for other road projects and I am not sure what is going on at the ex plant site at this time. I was shooting wide open with ASA 64 Kodak film and managed at least to get the numberboards readable. Some railroads called them Van trains or Railvan trains but I used the name Piggyback. What was Conrail's preferred name for these trains?
SD40-2 6524, SD40-2 6520, SD40-2 6363. Howard Kent Jr. 10-1982.