Re: Bonus Video
Posted by Chessie Dispatcher
on 1/1/2020, 10:32 am, in reply to "
Re: Bonus Video "
Don't really know how Newark got its name. It goes all the way back to PM days. Wikipedia just shows it as an "unincorporated community" in Holly Twp. I read Holly was named after Mt. Holly, New Jersey. There is, of course, a Newark, NJ -- but have no idea if any connection. I'm sure train crews got pretty bored sitting in the siding there out in the middle of nowhere! Before we got the controlled/signaled siding at Grand Blanc, many a northbound got stuck there waiting for southbounds working at GB. Don't know if there was ever any customers at Newark. I have an old PM book (no date on it) that shows in addition to the siding another track there that held 12 40-ft cars. I don't remember if that track was still there when I was dispatching. If so, it would just have been a place to set out a bad order car if necessary. There was a hot box detector between GB and Newark. On southbounds we were to hold the signal at S. Newark until we read the tape to be sure it was OK for the train to proceed without checking anything in their train.
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