(erielack) dl&w in bingo

[Ralph McClive <rmcclive_@_twcny.rr.com>]

YO yard was busy 3 shifts a day because allied chemical (solvay 
process) in syracuse was the company's largest on line customer - 
many cars of soda ash traveled from syr to bingo where they would 
have to be broken down for distribution in different directions - if 
i remember correctly there were 2 syr/bingo trains each way every 24 
hours - ralph mcclive


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>Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:43:06 -0500
>From: "Dad" <wsmith5957_@_hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: (erielack) Train Yard Symbols
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>BY was east binghamton, the TOFC ramp was just across the mainline from the
>old BY tower. I spent many hours setting piggyback flats in & out there.
>First of course, we'd have to take them all to the roundhouse turntable to
>get them pointed do the trailers would be headed south for it was at the
>south end of the siding that the ramp sat. You'd also have to sit until BY
>could let u across both maintracks and tie up the WB main for ur headroom.
>The yard at the beginning of the Syracuse Div'n was "YO". Hard to believe
>it's gone now..........we had a round the clock engine there (3 shifts).
>Regards,
>Walt Smith


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