New York & Chicago Western(NYCW)

[DT&I]

Is a regional class 2 railroad that operates mainly between New York, New York and Chicago, Illinois. The company also has lines from New York to Buffalo, Toledo to Detroit, Columbus to Toledo, and from Columbus down into the West Virginian Appalachians. Most traffic on the railroad is on the North Platte to Milwaukee line and the Chicago to New York line. Both of these lines see about 55 trains a day. Most of the signals on the eastern lines are former Pennsylvania Railroad and most of the western routes have searchlights although hooded Safetrans have begun to show up throughout the routes. Most units on the roster are SD40-2's, NYCW also has GP38-2's, SW1500's, GP40-2's, SD38-2's, SD50-2's, SD45's, C36-7's, U30B's, U30C's(ex-MILW), B40-8C's, and a couple of SD60 standard cabs(former SOO). All of this power is needed to pull heavily loaded coal trains out of West Virginia. Also 5 HLCX SD40-2's are usually seen on the Chicago Line.




The Middleston District is a shortline between Middleton, WV and St. Joseph, WV. It is totally dark territory and sees one train a week, K22. K22 usually has a SW1500 running a couple of centerbeams up to a small mill. K22 runs empties and loads every other week. The mill is the only customer on the line and more will hopefully be added. The track condition is poor and speed on the line is 5 MPH so switching takes about an hour.

The Penn District is the mainline from Toledo to Columbus. It is ex-Pennsy from Stanley Yard to Oakway Yard. The line still has all the original Pennsy signals in place and a 9 passing sidings are located on the line. It sees about 15 trains a day and track speed is now up to 45 MPH. The line crosses the CSX and NS a Fostoria and serves a couple industries there. All trains usually don't meet on the line and if they do it's rare.

The Johnson District(Bullfrog Line on the radio) is the route between Columbus(Oakway) to Charleston, WV. It has several branchlines to coal mining areas, the Brewster Branch, Iron Branch, Grafton Branch, Derringer Branch, Fulton Branch, Keller Branch, Quincy Branch, and the Carlston Branch. Most coal trains are powered by foreign power or B40-8C's. It's rare to see Geeps on the coal branches as they are used more on frieghts and intermodals.

NYCW Great Eastern District trains:

K280 - Fostoria Local
Q962 - Chicago - New York Intermodal
Q241 - Chicago - New York Intermodal
Q210 - Chicago - New York Intermodal
Q393 - Chicago - Columbus Intermodal
Q531 - Chicago - Buffalo Intermodal
Q458 - Chicago - North Platte Intermodal
Q590 - Chicago - Cleveland Intermodal
Q672 - Chicago - Seattle(BNSF) Intermodal
Q120 - Chicago - South Kearny Intermodal
Q621 - Chicago - Jacksonville, Fl(CSX) Intermodal
Q090 - Chicago - Detroit Intermodal
Q022 - Chicago - Vancouver(BNSF) Intermodal
Q113 - Chicago - St. Louis Intermodal
Q899 - Chicago - Albany Intermodal
Q100 - Chicago - Trenton Intermodal
Q222 - Chicago - Toledo Intermodal
Q453 - Chicago - Cincinnatti Intermodal
Q203 - Detroit - New York Manifest
Q481 - Detroit - Chicago Manifest
Q194 - Detroit - Chicago Manifest
Q297 - Detroit - Chicago Manifest
490 - Detroit - New Orleans(CN) Manifest
S455 - Detroit - Cleveland Manifest
Q300 - Detroit - Cleveland Manifest
Q301 - Detroit - Cleveland Manifest
Q356 - Detroit - New York Manifest
Q977 - Detroit - New York Manifest
Q192 - Detroit - Trenton Manifest
I475 - Detroit - South Kearney Manifest
R999 - North Platte - Cleveland Manifest
R782 - North Platte - New York Manifest
R263 - North Platte - New York Manifest
R323 - North Platte - New York Manifest
R444 - North Platte - Chicago Manifest
R590 - North Platte - Milwaukee(CP at MILB)
R001 - North Platte - Milwaukee


E321 - Cincinnatti - Chicago Intermodal
E445 - Toledo - Chicago Intermodal
E910 - Trenton - Chicago Intermodal
E192 - Albany - Chicago Intermodal
E110 - St. Louis - Chicago Intermodal
E999 - Vancouver(BNSF) - Chicago Intermodal
E728 - Detroit - Chicago Intermodal
E091 - Jacksonville, Fl(CSX) - Chicago Intermodal
E289 - South Kearny - Chicago Intermodal
E734 - Seattle(BNSF) - Chicago Intermodal
E571 - Cleveland - Chicago Intermodal
E932 - North Platte - Chicago Intermodal
E600- Buffalo - Chicago Intermodal
E492 - Columbus - Chicago Intermodal
E499 - New York - Chicago Intermodal
E333 - New York - Chicago Intermodal
E486 - New York - Chicago Intermodal
Thoes are intermodal trains that use the Great Eastern District(Chicago - New York) in one place or another.