RCJP01 Munster PA
The hardest operation besides the C&BL in Johnstown to catch moving by far has to be the RJ Corman after the crash of the domestic coal market when railfanning the NS West Slope.
With the said crash of the domestic coal market, RJ Corman's Clearfield cluster saw a drastic drop in traffic. Which in return warranted power being sent off system and redistributed to other needing RJ Corman Properties.
On the positive side, Clymer has managed to be reopened in recent month's but traffic to the mine is still scarce with a train loading once or twice a month. Besides this, there is only a few active freight businesses that are served throughout the system along with unit grain trains for an ethanol plant at Clearfield.
Monday morning I got lucky and stumbled into a NS 56K grain train being picked up by the RJ Corman with 3 SD40-2's. The train is seen here climbing up the grade at Munster, PA on the Cresson Sub destined to an ethanol plant at Clearfield, PA.
My intentions were to chase the train the whole length of the railroad to Clearfield, but that wasn't meant to be due to my cars check engine and 4WD lights coming on. The roads were not very good at all, and I was already 2 hours from home.
As much as I wanted to push on anyways, I was forced to turn back for home and play it safe. Last thing I needed was no 4WD on snow covered icy roads and have my engine shit out over 2 hours from home. Better luck for next time I guess.
RCJP01 Munster PA
The hardest operation besides the C&BL in Johnstown to catch moving by far has to be the RJ Corman after the crash of the domestic coal market when railfanning the NS West Slope.
With the said crash of the domestic coal market, RJ Corman's Clearfield cluster saw a drastic drop in traffic. Which in return warranted power being sent off system and redistributed to other needing RJ Corman Properties.
On the positive side, Clymer has managed to be reopened in recent month's but traffic to the mine is still scarce with a train loading once or twice a month. Besides this, there is only a few active freight businesses that are served throughout the system along with unit grain trains for an ethanol plant at Clearfield.
Monday morning I got lucky and stumbled into a NS 56K grain train being picked up by the RJ Corman with 3 SD40-2's. The train is seen here climbing up the grade at Munster, PA on the Cresson Sub destined to an ethanol plant at Clearfield, PA.
My intentions were to chase the train the whole length of the railroad to Clearfield, but that wasn't meant to be due to my cars check engine and 4WD lights coming on. The roads were not very good at all, and I was already 2 hours from home.
As much as I wanted to push on anyways, I was forced to turn back for home and play it safe. Last thing I needed was no 4WD on snow covered icy roads and have my engine shit out over 2 hours from home. Better luck for next time I guess.