Conrail Shared Assets Operations
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Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) is the commonly used name for modern-day
railroad company. It operates three networks, the North Jersey, South Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit Shared Assets Areas,[1] where it serves as a contract local carrier and switching company for its owners, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway. When most of the former Conrail's track was split between these two railroads, the three shared assets areas (a total of about 1,200 miles of track) were kept separate to avoid giving one railroad an advantage in those areas. The company operates using its own employees and infrastructure but owns no equipment outside MOW equipment
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The North Jersey Shared Assets Area stretches from the
South Jersey/Philadelphia Shared Assets Area at Trenton. Oak Island Yard in Newark is the principal yard for the region with smaller ones at Bayonne, Greenville (Jersey City), Linden, Manville, Metuchen, Newark, Old Bridge, and Port Reading in Woodbridge.[2][3]
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- Centre Street Bridge (demolished)[4]
- Passaic and Harsimus Line "P&HL", formerly Northeast Corridor at Waverly Yard In Newark, New Jersey, now Oak Island Yard to Jersey City
- National Docks Branch "NATB", Northern Running Track at Bergen Junction, New Jersey to Upper Bay Bridge to Oak Island Yard
- Lehigh Line "LEHL", National Docks Branch, Bayonne to CSX Trenton Subdivision and NS Lehigh Line at Manville
- Perth Amboy Running Track, comes off Garden State Secondary to service industries in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
- Amboy Secondary "AMBS", from William to Midway Amtrak. Connects to NJ Transit North Jersey Coast Line via the Essay and Church Running Tracks in South Amboy, New Jersey.
- Sayreville Running Track, Gillespie Running Track and Phoenix Branch
- Southern Secondary "SOUS", trackage rights over NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line from South Amboy to Red Bank, New Jersey, to an interchange with the Delaware and Raritan River Railroadlocated in Red Bank.
- Port Reading Secondary "MANS", a line that runs from Port Reading Junction and Yard to Bound Brook where it connects with the Lehigh Line - recently upgraded and may lose its 'secondary' status.
- Travis Industrial Track, which runs from Arlington Yard to a New York Department of Sanitation Waste Transfer Facility at Fresh Kills.
- Hightstown Industrial Track, an Industrial Track that runs from a junction with the Amboy Secondary in Jamesburg, NJ to Cranbury, NJ.
- Bonhamtown Branch, runs from NEC south of Metuchen Station to Raritan Center, interchanges with Raritan Central Railway at Metuchen Yard.
The New Jersey Department of Transportation anticipated in 2010 increased freight activity in South Jersey that has led to capital improvement and expansion projects for this designated area.[5]
The South Jersey/Philadelphia Shared Assets Area is operated out of Pavonia Yard in Camden, New Jersey, with smaller yards in Marcus Hook, Paulsboro, Millville, Morrisville, Frankford Junction, Burlington, Port Richmond and South Philadelphia.
- Winslow Junction, New Jersey
- Bordentown Secondary, CP Hatch to Northeast Corridor at Millham in Trenton, New Jersey
- Northeast Corridor, trackage rights along Amtrak (Northeast Corridor) from Northern New Jersey operations border at Princeton Junction, New Jersey to Philadelphia.
- Delair Branch, Pavonia Running tracks at CP Hatch Delair, New Jersey to ) at Park Junction in Philadelphia.
- Pemberton Running Track, runs from NJT CP Jordan (Pennsauken) to Hainesport, NJ.
- Beesley's Point Secondary, Vineland Secondary at CP Brown in Winslow, New Jersey to Palermo, New Jersey has been leased to the Cape May Seashore Lines as of 2022, but Conrail has retained secondary trackage rights depending on what happens with the shuttered B.L. England Generating Stationsite.
- Beesley's Point Industrial Track, via Beesley's Point Secondary at Palermo to Beesley's Point, New Jersey
- Vineland Secondary, Camden Running track at CP Mill at the south end of Pavonia Yard in Camden to Millville, New Jersey
- Grenloch Industrial Track, Vineland Secondary in Gloucester City, New Jersey to the Interstate Business Park in Bellmawr, New Jersey.
- Penns Grove Secondary, Salem Secondary and Vineland Secondary at Woodbury, New Jersey to Deepwater Point Running Track at Penns Grove, New Jersey
- Deepwater Point Running Track, Penns Grove Secondary at Penns Grove, New Jersey to Deepwater, New Jersey
- Salem Running Track, Penns Grove Secondary and Vineland Secondary at Woodbury, NJ to Swedesboro, NJ for a connection to the Southern Railroad of New Jersey's Salem Branch. Leased to SRNJ in 2018.
- Chester Secondary, CSX RG yard at Eastwick to SEPTA's Airport Line, Lester, and ends at Eddystone.
Delair Bridge
The south track at the
New Jersey Transit's Atlantic City Line
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The Detroit Shared Assets Area consists of:
- Detroit Line, from junction with Norfolk Southern Detroit Line in Gibraltar, Michiganat MP 20 to junction with Conrail North Yard Branch at CP-West Detroit.
- North Yard Branch, from junction with Conrail Detroit Line at CP-West Detroit to junction with Conrail Sterling Secondary at CP-North Yard.
- Sterling Secondary and Utica Industrial Track, from junction with the Conrail North Yard Branch at CP-North Yard to the end of the Utica Industrial Track at MP 27.
- Michigan Line (runs parallel to Michigan Avenue, US Hwy 12), CP-Townline in Dearborn (junction with Amtrak Michigan Line) to CP-Bay City Jct.
- Lincoln Secondary, from junction with CSXT Toledo Terminal Subdivision at Carleton to Ecorse Junction in Detroit. Trains can operate track authority EC-1 forms issued by the CSX RL Dispatcher located in Calumet City, Illinois.
CP-West Detroit, Delray, CP-YD, and River Rouge Yard lie close to each other on the Utica/MP 20 line, giving the whole a rough K-shape. Various spurs and industrial tracks branch off from this trackage. Mileage in both directions is measured from the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel.
Locomotives
Conrail Shared Assets utilizes the following types of locomotives, all supplied by CSX and Norfolk Southern.
- EMD GP38-2
- EMD GP40-2
- EMD SD40-2
- EMD SD45-2
- EMD SD40E3
References
- ^ "System Map".
- ^ "Conrail Operations". Conrail.com. 2011-07-18. Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
- ^ "Transportation Infrastructure". www.choosenj.com. Archived from the original on 2014-12-19.
- ^ "Federal Register". Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. April 12, 1982 – via Google Books.
- ^ Southern New Jersey Freight Transportation and Economic Development Assessment Survey (PDF) (Report). New Jersey Department of Transportation. December 2010. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
Further reading
- "CSX Corporation and CSX Transportation Inc., Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway Corporation--Control and Operating Lease/Agreements--Conrail Inc. and Consolidated Rail Corporation". Surface Transportation Board. July 23, 1998. Archived from the original on 2006-04-25.
- Abandoned Railroad Inventory and Policy (PDF) (Report). Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. September 1997.
- "Conrail Shared Assets Operation (CSAO)". Railnuts.
- "Marketing Department Inspection Trip" (PDF). Conrail. October 11, 1984.
- Doherty, Tim (April 2016). "Wiseguys and Wayfreights". Railfan.
External links
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