GEC's Layout Progress

[Green_Elite_Cab]

I was wondering about that, because you mention trains leaving the NEC at Trenton/Morrisville, but there were lots of freights to and from Potomac Yard, Baltimore, Wilmington, and Philadelphia that I believe were still on the NEC until 1981 or so.

Yup, I left a handful of them out, like WACR. I'm not at my home computer right now so I can't upload them.


To be fair though, there weren't many trains running to Potomac yard under wire. WASE and WACR were (Potomac to Selkirk and Croxton, respectively) were ones I accidentally left out. That really about covers it. While there definitely were more trains running from New Jersey to those southern points, It was about this time that Conrail was shifting all its freight over to the former Lehigh Valley and Reading lines in order to get off the NEC where possible.

There were also a lot of electric freights coming from potomac, but most went up the Columbia and Port Deposit branch, and only the ones on the list above (SEWA, CRWA, and a few others) made the trip north. There seemed to be more freights moving west towards Conway and Chicago than up and down the coast.