My version of Penn Central

[conrailman75]

PC Trains across the system at 2pm:

Annulled trains
WJGR-1
WJGR-2

Reinstated trains:
all UWC coal trains
CIKA/KACI
WSIN-1
WSKA-1

Western Region
Ft. Wayne Division
Amtrak #7 is at Clarke Jct, IN(Wabash Cannonball)
Amtrak #3 is at Columbia City, IN(Lake Cities)
FWPC-43 is at Leetonia, OH
UCH-481 is at Warsaw, IN(PC 5021 and 5020)
PIIN-4 is at Crestline, OH
PIFW-4A is at Dunkirk, OH
PITO-4 is at Beaver Falls, PA
FWBR-4 is at Coesse, IN
CSX Q357 is at Colsan in Bucyrus, OH(CSXT 145, 908, 7742, 5016)
CSX Q524 is at Hamlet, IN(CSXT 449, 380, 295)
NS 421 is at Upper Sandusky, OH(NS 6698, 6703, 5420, 2599)
CSX Q317 is at Bourbon, IN(CSXT 5287, 5399, 5221)
FWCP-44 is at Leetonia, OH
TV8 is at Dunkirk, OH
CHPI-4 is at Ada, OH
CJPI-4 is at Beaver Falls, PA
IHPI-4 is at Larwill, IN
GRPI-4 is at Lima, OH
DPMOC-93 is departing Decatur, IN(local train to Ohio City on Cloverleaf)
FWPI-4B is at Delphos, OH
NDFW-4 is departing Mexico, IN(over the road local train)
JAPI-4 is at Crestline, OH
UWC-693 is at Wanatah, IN(CN 5645 and 5715) NORX coal train
INFW-3X is at Ridgeville, IN
DRFW-4882 is at Geneva, IN
No. 101 is at Waldron, OH
TOJA-4 is at Latty, OH
INTO-4X is at New Weston, OH
INTO-4 is at Berwick, OH
JATO-4 is at Forest, OH
Jackson Division
FWJA-4X is at Angola, IN
No. 697 is in the siding to meet No. 696 at Batavia(PC 1601)
No. 696 is meeting No. 697 at Batavia(PC 1001)
No. 691 is nearing White Pigeon, MI(PC 1002)
JAEL-4 is departing the yard in Jackson, MI
FWGR-4 is at Wolcottville, IN
TV10 is departing Mosel yard Kalamazoo, MI
GRTO-4 is at Mendon, MI
WOR-501 is at Hopkins, MI*
BAL-501 is at Hopkins, MI*
*both trains working site of washout on Kalamazoo Branch
WOR-502 is at Dutton, MI*
WOR-504 is at Dutton, MI*
BAL-502 is at Dutton, MI*
*All three trains working site of washout on Grand Rapids Branch
BAL-504 is at Hughart yard Grand Rapids, MI*
WOR-506 is at Hughart yard Grand Rapids, MI**
*train is waiting for first ballast train to return before heading to washout site
**train has bridge parts to repair washed out bridges on Grand Rapids Branch

Southern Region
Chicago Division
CHNS-4 is at Sloan, IN
NSCH-4 is at Schneider, IN
No. 900 is departing 59th Street yard(transfer train[PC 2061 and 2060])
Columbus Division
TV211 is at Columbus, OH
COSL-4 is at Hagenbaugh, OH
TV13 is passing Buckeye yard Columbus, OH
Mail-44 is at Oakdale, PA
PICO-4 is at Steubenville, OH
PICI-4 is at East Alton in Alton, OH
CODA-4 is at CP-Carney near Springfield, OH
INCO-4 is at London, OH
WLCO-1 is at Selma, OH
St. Louis Division
INVI-4 is at Switz City, IN*
*first run of train since flooding
INSL-4 is at Haley Tower on CSX ex Big Four mainline*
*detour train around flooding
SLIN-4 is at Davis Tower in Indianapolis, IN
SLCO-4 is at CP-135 near Windsor, IL
WOR-407 is at Greencastle, IN*
WOR-409 is at East Marion siding near Fillmore, IN**
BAL-409 is at Greencastle, IN*
*both trains are working the site of a washout in Greencastle
**camp car train for the workers at the washout site
BAL-411 is at Hawthorne yard Indianapolis, IN*
*train is waiting for empty ballast train to return before heading to washout site
WOR-411 is at Hawthorne yard Indianapolis, IN***
***train has bridge parts to repair washed out bridges in Greencastle
EVIN-4 is at Spencer, IN
DET-431 is at Petersburg, IN(CSXT 129, 659, 4031, 8338)*
*CSX detour train X789 - 110 coal loads
DET-406 is at Martinsville, IN(CSXT 3056 and 3064)*
*CSX detour train Q592
DET-405 is at Buckskin, IN(CSXT 44, 888, 367)*
*CSX detour train Q593
Indianapolis Division
CHCO-4 is at Upland, IN
COCH-4 is at Meekers, OH
CSIN-4 is at Speed, IN
DET-303 is at Jeffersonville, IN*
*Monon detour train A-LC2
DET-308 is at Greenwood, IN*
*Monon detour train BL-1
CHIN-4 is at Centerville, IN
TOIN-4 is at Fortville, IN on the CSX Big Four line
JAIN-4 is at Oaklandon, IN on the CSX Big Four line
INEL-4 is at Fairmount, IN

[conrailman75]

Flood update:

Word from the crew at Greencastle is that they have had to stop work on the line because Black Walnut Creek is rising back close to flood stage again so the crews relunctly retreated back to Fillmore for the night. They will go out and check it tomorrow to see if the river level will allow them to do anymore work on it or not. They did get the first approach to the bridge repaired and they were working on the supports for the bridge when the water level started rising again, but at least they managed to make a little progress on it.

Up in Michigan the Grand River and Thornapple creek are both expected to fall below flood stage tomorrow, so work to reopen the Grand Rapids Branch should be able to continue full steam. The washouts on both sides of the bridge in Dutton were repaired today and the crews are moving down to Middleville to start work on repairing the washouts and replacing the bridge over the river there. Crews were able to get the washouts repaired at Hopkins on the Kalamazoo Branch, allowing the railroad to reopen the line again. The branch local, WJGR-1, will be reinstated to run at its normal time starting tomorrow.

[conrailman75]

Flood update 4/25:

The Kalamazoo Branch reopened for business today, the WJGR-1 local was able to get out and run its full route for the first time since a week ago. The crews on the Grand Rapids Branch have finally gotten the bridge repaired at Middleville and are heading to Hastings next to take care of the severe washouts and bridgeouts there. With the progress being made, management is hopeful the entire line can be reopened by the end of this weekend. We returned one empty ballast train to the MQT and the second one will be interchanged to them tonight. The third one will head out to the work crews tomorrow.

While the work crews at Greencastle couldn't attack the line repairs like they wanted due to the water level, we were able to send out a smaller workforce who was able to stabilize and strengthen the bridge piers, at least allowing a train to cross it again for now. It is going to be replaced with a brand new bridge once the flooding threat subsides. Since work cannot be completed on it, this pushes the reopening of the line into next week now. The Richmond Branch is still out and won't be touched until the Greencastle line is repaired.

[conrailman75]

PC trains at 9am:

Annulled:
WJGR-1

Reinstated
WJGR-2

Western Region
Ft. Wayne Division
Amtrak #1 is at Hamlet, IN(Broadway Limited)
Amtrak #7 is at Wandle near Fairhope, OH(Wabash Cannonball)
UCH-481 is at Lakeville, OH
PIFW-6A is departing Conway yard Pittsburgh, PA
INCH-6 is at Bart Tower near Hobart, IN
PIJA-6 is at Van Wert, OH
FWCP-44 is at Vandale Tower in Columbia City, IN
CHPI-6 is departing 55th Street yard Chicago, IL
CJPI-6 is at Van Wert, OH
FWPI-6A is at Big Run, OH
CJFW-6 is at Junction Tower Ft. Wayne, IN
PRFW-6 is at Plymouth, IN(UP 4666 and 4478)
CHIN-6 is at Gary, IN
TOPI-6 is at Mohican, OH
UWC-493 is at Hanna, IN(CN 5659 and 8905) NORX coal loads
CSX Q114 is at Warsaw, IN(CSXT 5215, 5277, 5366)
NS 40T is at Orrville, OH(NS 2754 and 2714)
CSX Q356 is at Hamlet, IN(CSXT 7383 and 5383)
CSX Q523 is at Larwill, IN(CSXT 7905 and 7743)
WDRW-4664 is at Hoagland, IN(PC 7718 and 7765)
JAIN-6 is passing OD Tower in Jackson, MI
Jackson Division
JAPI-6 is departing the yard in Jackson, MI
JAFW-6X is at Ray, MI
No. 693 is at Quincy, MI(PC 1600)
No. 694 is departing Hillsdale, MI(PC 1002)
FWKA-6 is at Sturgis, MI
UWC-692 is at Alamo, MI(CN 2233 and 2275) NORX empties
WJGR-2 is departing Mosel yard in Kalamazoo, MI*
*first run of this train since the flooding last week
GRPI-6 is at Fisher, MI
GRCI-6 is at Vicksburg, MI*
*reroute train due to flooding
WOR-502 is at Hastings, MI*
WOR-504 is at Hastings, MI*
BAL-506 is at Hastings, MI*
*all 3 trains assisting with washout repairs to GR Branch
Toledo Division
TOIN-6 is getting ready to depart the yard in Lime City, OH
TOIN-6X is at Berwick, OH
CHTO-6 is at CP SO near Lime City, OH
CITO-6 is at Fostoria, OH

Southern Region
Chicago Division
TV21 is at Royal Center, IN
CHLO-6 is at Crown Point, IN
TV20 is at Beverly Jct, IL
No. 901 is at EC in Englewood, IL(PC 6915 and 6912)*
*transfer train
Columbus Division
TV14 is at Conover, OH
COBN-6 is at Hagenbaugh, OH
CIPI-6 is at Heath, OH
COPI-6 is departing Buckeye yard in Columbus, OH
PICY-6 is at Hopedale, OH
DACO-6 is at Springfield, OH
CICH-6 is at Richmond, IN
INCO-6 is departing Hawthorne yard Indianapolis, IN
St. Louis Division
WOR-407 is at Fillmore, IN*
WOR-409 is at East Marion siding near Fillmore, IN*
*work trains to repair washouts on line near Greencastle
WOR-411 is at Hawthorne yard Indianapolis, IN*
*work train with new bridge pieces
BAL-411 is at Hawthorne yard Indianapolis, IN*
*ballast train to help repair washouts
SLIN-6 is at Lenox, IL
VIIN-6 is at Kraft Tower Indianapolis, IN
DET-403 is at Petersburg, IN(CSXT 135, 379, 333)*
*CSX detour train
DET-402 is at Worthington, IN(CSXT 467, 588, 532)*
*CSX detour train Q024
INLO-6 is departing Hawthorne yard Indianapolis, IN
Mail-92 is at Clymers, IN
TV210 is at Ridgeville, IN
DET-305 is at Columbus, IN*
*Monon detour train
DET-308 is at Henryville, IN*
*Monon detour train
DET-301 is at Whiteland, IN*
*Monon detour train
Indianapolis Division
INFW-6 is at Germantown, IN
WIRI is departing Hawthorne yard Indianapolis, IN(local to Richmond)
INJA-6 is at Muncie, IN on the CSX Big Four line

[conrailman75]

Flood update 4/28:

Crews finished up the last of the washout repairs on the Grand Rapids Branch today and the line will be reopened to trains starting at 12:01am 4/29. The GRCI/CIGR will no longer have to detour through Ft. Wayne to get to Grand Rapids anymore and the local will run for the first time in over a week.

Down in central Indiana, flood waters went down enough on Friday for work crews to get busy with repairing all the washouts and stuff on the line thru Greencastle. The brand new bridge at Greencastle was installed yesterday and all the washouts were repaired up to Reelsville, where crews are installing another new bridge to replace the one that got damaged in the flood. The rest of the repairs should be finished by tomorrow afternoon, allowing PC to finally reopen its St. Louis mainline again for the first time in almost two weeks. Management would like to thank CSX for allowing us to detour over their mainline during this difficult time. And also, the CSX detours have ended as the Wabash River has fallen just enough to allow CSX to reopen their bridge at Clinton, IN on the C&EI. Once the crews finish with this project, we will shift them over to Richmond and get them ready to work on repairing the washouts to the Richmond Branch, which barring any future flooding, should be finished by the end of this coming week.

[conrailman75]

Starting May 1, PC will begin taking delivery of brand new locomotives from HPLB(45CWDC and AC). This will cause us to place our 68 C44-9W's and 10 of our AC4400CW's(6151-6200, 6600-6601, 6603-6619, 6631-6640) into storage. The rest of the AC400CW fleet(100 units) is also targeted for storage. We also put into storage SD70M's 6626-6630 and SD70MAC 6620-6625. None of these units are for sale or lease at the moment, I will update on here when and if either of those options happen.

[conrailman75]

Today the Grand Rapids Branch reopened for rail traffic for the first time in over almost two weeks. The GRCI/CIGR trains finally were able to run their normal route and the WJGR-1 local train was able to finally get out and service the industries on the route for the first time. A second local train, WJGR-3, ran extra out of Jackson to Grand Rapids to ensure that all the industries got switched today.

Crews have finished up repairing the last few washouts near Knightsville and once the work and ballast trains return to Indianapolis, the St. Louis mainline thru Greencastle will reopen for the first time in a couple weeks as well. PC would like to again thank CSX for allowing us to detour our St. Louis trains on its parallel route during the flooding and subsequent rebuilding. Tomorrow the work trains and track crews will head east to Richmond, IN where they will be staged for Wednesday morning to start tackling the rebuild work on the Richmond Branch from Elwood to Kokomo.

[conrailman75]

Flood update, crews are out repairing washouts on the only remaining line that suffered flood damage and hadn't been repaired yet, the Richmond Branch. The crews finished up in Elwood today and are heading to Kokomo tomorrow and hope to have the line reopened by Sunday.

In other news, Poet opened its brand new ethanol plant in Churubusco, IN yesterday. PC assisted by rebuilding 8 miles of the Vandale Secondary to serve this new plant and delivered a unit train of grain hoppers, symbol UCU-21, for its first delivery of corn. The first ethanol train is planned to head out of the plant tomorrow, its symbol will be UET-100. An empty train of tank cars was delivered today, symbol EET-190, to be ready for loading. PC anticipates a lot of business from this new plant with unit ethanol and grain trains planned on an almost daily basis.

PC announced that in spite of the losses suffered from the flooding, rail replacement projects on the Ft. Wayne line and Cloverleaf lines will still go on as planned next month. Critical passing sidings will be installed on the Cloverleaf as well during this project.

[conrailman75]

Some more unusual or non scheduled trains out running on PC today:

OCS-501(PC 4397 and 5 cars) is at Louisville, KY so management can take in the Kentucky Derby this weekend.

UET(Unit train Ethanol)-245 was by Upper Sandusky, OH as of 7:15pm with CP 5685, ICE 6421, DME 6072

UOT(Unit train OIl)-286 was by Warsaw, IN as of 6:45pm with NS 8100, 8016, and DPU 1055.*
*these are the only trains that will run on PC with DPU's.

XCU-101(empty grain train from Churubusco) was by Avilla, IN as of 5:15pm.

ML-409(autorack train) was by Fairborn, OH at 3:00pm with NS 6902 and 8996 for power

SPL-401 was by Paris, IL at 4:30pm. Train is carrying a large generator for a plant in St. Louis, MO

USC(Unit grain to South Charleston)-404 is at TruPointe in South Charleston, OH

[DT&I]

I love reading your lists, they are well organized. One thing though, ICE and DME are TSCR now. So you got TSCR power on that train.

[conrailman75]

I love reading your lists, they are well organized. One thing though, ICE and DME are TSCR now. So you got TSCR power on that train.

I keep forgetting about that

[DT&I]

I love reading your lists, they are well organized. One thing though, ICE and DME are TSCR now. So you got TSCR power on that train.

I keep forgetting about that

It's okay! You're welcome to use TSCR power when you need it.

[conrailman75]

Penn Central trains across the system at 6:30pm:

Western Region
Ft. Wayne Division
FWPC-43 is at Selby, IN
PICH-3 is at Perrysville, OH
PIGR-3 is at Leetonia, OH
CRFW-482 is at Adams Tower Ft. Wayne, IN
UET-100 is at Plymouth, IN(ethanol train)
FWPR-3 is at Wanatah, IN(UP 8356 and 6836)
INCH-3 is working Piqua yard Ft. Wayne, IN
PIFW-3B is at Upper Sandusky, OH
TOCH-3 is at Vandale Tower Columbia City, IN
CSX Q357 is at Hanna, IN(CSXT 4034 and 4055)
NS 421 is at Valporaiso, IN(NS 2588 and 9876)
Amtrak #2 is at Bart Tower in Hobart, IN(Broadway Limited)
IHPI-3 is at Big Run, OH
INPI-3 is at Lima, OH
FWPI-3B is at New Galilee, PA
OCPMD-94 is at Pleasant Mills, IN(local train)
Jackson Division
No. 698 is at White Pigeon, MI(PC 1000 and 1002)
TV5 is pulling into the yard at Jackson, MI
TOGR-3 is at Hoffman, IN
UWC-693 is at Grand Junction, MI waiting on an MQT train(CN 2181 and 2664)
GRIN-3 is at Vicksburg, MI
WAFW-442 is at Mike Tower in Ft. Wayne, IN
Toledo Division
PITO-3 is at Fostoria, OH
Southern Region
Chicago Division
COCH-3 is at Bernice, IL(BCOL 4616 and CN 2409)
Columbus Division
TV211 is at Star City, IN
CICO-3X is at Fairborn, OH
SPIN-3 is at Kennard, IN
St. Louis Division
INEV-3 is at Elberfield, IN
SLCO-3 is at Cutler, IN
COSL-3 is at Lebanon, IN
CYPI-3 is at Ridgeville, IN
TV18 is at Taylorsville, IN
Indianapolis Division
PIIN-3 is at Pendleton, IN on the CSX Big Four line

[legostudios34]

We're ready to start the first delivery of 45-CWACs and DCs. We have 32 of the DC model and 18 of the AC model. The first two cuts of ten are already on their way to Chattanooga where NS will send them wherever you need them. We'll be delivering these first 50 as sets of 10, and then we'll make deliveries of 5 or 6 every week (as we build them) until the rest of the order is finished.

[conrailman75]

We're ready to start the first delivery of 45-CWACs and DCs. We have 32 of the DC model and 18 of the AC model. The first two cuts of ten are already on their way to Chattanooga where NS will send them wherever you need them. We'll be delivering these first 50 as sets of 10, and then we'll make deliveries of 5 or 6 every week (as we build them) until the rest of the order is finished.

Okay, thanks for the update. I have instructed NS to deliver them to me at Cincinnati, so the first 20 should be on my system on Monday or Tuesday next week.

[conrailman75]

Another construction project has been announced to start next month, and that is the extension of the double track on the GR&I Branch from Howe, IN up Kalamazoo, MI. This will include adding signals and CTC to what is now currently an all dark single track TT/TO line. This will be an ongoing project that is projected to be completed by next summer. Work will be done in such a way that it does not massively disrupt train traffic on the line and work windows may be implemented for part of the project, such as to install cross overs as an example.

Also announced today was that the entire fleet of C44-9W's(all 68), and AC4400CW's(all 110) will be placed into storage and transferred over to the brand new subsidiary, Penn Central Leasing Co(PCLX). The units are going to be rounded up and placed into storage at Conway, Buckeye, and Piqua yards to be relettered PCLX, which will take the rest of the month. The units are projected to become available after June 1st. Parent PC is replacing them with 50 45CWDC and 50 45CWAC's from HPLB, the first 20 of which should be delivered next week.

[legostudios34]

Another group of 10 has been sent north on NS tonight. Just tell them where you want it delivered.

[conrailman75]

PC has received 20 of its new locomotives down at Undercliff yard in Cincinnati via NS and started placing them into service today. This is ten 45CWDC's and ten 45CWAC's, the DC's are numbered 5300-5349 and the AC's are numbered 5200-5249. Ten more units are on their way to Cincinnati today via NS and they should be here and activated by the end of the week.

[ES44AH]

We got the Centipede out of the junkyard for you. Do you want us to take it to Pittsburg? Or take it somewhere else for you to pick up?

[conrailman75]

We got the Centipede out of the junkyard for you. Do you want us to take it to Pittsburg? Or take it somewhere else for you to pick up?

Send it to Philadelphia so NS can take it to Strasburg since the museum is located on their mainline.