Boardman railyard in TC

[TC railman]

Will they ever do work to the Boardman railyard in TC for beacon storage or car awaiting to enter the siding?

[TC Man]

Will they ever do work to the Boardman railyard in TC for beacon storage or car awaiting to enter the siding?

Why? They bring cars up from Cadillac straight to Beacon (or Amerhart). No reason to store a few cars anywhere on the way (except the cars to be scrapped that were in Walton).

[GP30M4216]

As TC Man said, since no crew is based there, and no customers need large quantities staged anywhere, no reason to have a "yard." The larger cuts of cars coming to Beacon can be held in Cadillac until ready to bring north, where someone can better keep an eye on them. As long as there are functioning runaround tracks where needed, that should be sufficient for current TC area service.

Speaking of Beacon, I just looked them up on Google Maps. Is the siding being used for their outbound gons and the inbound rolling stock to be cut up the westbound diverging switch just south of Northern Visions Drive and then runs directly parallel to the line to Grawn? Thanks for the intel.

[TC Man]

As TC Man said, since no crew is based there, and no customers need large quantities staged anywhere, no reason to have a "yard." The larger cuts of cars coming to Beacon can be held in Cadillac until ready to bring north, where someone can better keep an eye on them. As long as there are functioning runaround tracks where needed, that should be sufficient for current TC area service.

Speaking of Beacon, I just looked them up on Google Maps. Is the siding being used for their outbound gons and the inbound rolling stock to be cut up the westbound diverging switch just south of Northern Visions Drive and then runs directly parallel to the line to Grawn? Thanks for the intel.

You are seeing a siding for Beacon on the east side of the main, then the main, then the siding for Britten Media on the west side (not a shipper), near Northern Vision Drive. The Beacon siding was expanded by about 250' about 8 years ago when Integrity Iron & Metal owned it.

The closest run around track to Beacon is in the former Boardman Yard, and then another one ¼ mile north of there at the depot. It they are only bringing a couple few cars to Beacon, they run around them in either of those two runarounds, or when they have several cars (last 2 trains had 14 and 11 cars) they just run the train to Beacon as is, then separate the 2 engines, leaving one on the main, with the train, and pulling one onto the Beacon siding, then pull ahead, bring the one off the siding, do their switching, then put the locos back together and head north. When they have cars for Amerhart, they seem to always bring them to Beacon with this method and then go right back north with them. Must make operational sense to them.

Once a few weeks ago, they stopped in Boardman yard, uncoupled one loco on the runaround track, pulled ahead, and coupled the 2nd loco onto the back of the train. Maybe with Beacon being a fairly new shipper and just now getting many cars, they are trying different methods to see what works best. Just a guess. I was thinking maybe different crews have different methods, but thinking they only have one crew up north?