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The York Railway ( reporting mark YRC ) is a shortline railroad operating 48 miles (77 km) [ 1 ] of track in and near York, Pennsylvania . YRC was acquired by Genesee & Wyomin...

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The York Railway(reporting markYRC) is a shortline railroad operating 48 miles (77 km)[1] of track in and near York, Pennsylvania. YRC was acquired by Genesee & Wyoming in 2002, has a capacity of 286,000, and has three interchanges: CSX (Porters, Pennsylvania and Hanover, Pennsylvania); East Penn Railroad (York, Pennsylvania); Norfolk Southern (York, Pennsylvania). [2]

History and notable features

The company was created in 1999 through a consolidation of Yorkrail, Inc.(reporting markYKR) and the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad (M&P), both owned by the Emons Railroad Group, and it immediately sold the property thus acquired to limited liabilitylessor subsidiaries with the same names (Yorkrail, LLC and Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, LLC).[3]Genesee & Wyoming Inc. gained control of the company, and the other Emons properties, in 2002.

The York Railway operates two parallel main lines, extending southwest from York to CSX Transportationinterchanges. Most of the M&P's original line from York to Baltimore has been abandoned, but a short piece in York is still operated.

The M&P's current main line is an ex-Pennsylvania Railroad line that it acquired from the Penn Central Transportation Company in 1976, beginning at a connection with the Norfolk Southern Railway in York and running to a CSX connection at Hanover. The Yorkrail line, running from a junction with the M&P in York to a CSX connection at Porters Sideling, PA, was opened in 1893 by the Baltimore and Harrisburg Railway (Eastern Extension), a predecessor of the Western Maryland Railway, and sold by CSX Transportation to Yorkrail in 1989.[4]

The York Railway owns three ex-Santa FeCF7 diesels: #1500 (the last such locomotive built), 1502 and 1504 that were usually operated as a pair, and alternated to equalize operating hours.

El ferrocarril también opera las locomotoras diésel EMD GP16 ex-CSX n.° 1600, 1602, 1604 y 1606, así como un par de LTEX GP15-1 numeradas 1414 y 1444. Las locomotoras 1502 y 1504 estuvieron estacionadas durante varios años en un tramo entre Hokes Mill Road (Ruta 182) y South Sumner Street en York, Pensilvania, junto con la GP9 1754. A principios de febrero de 2018, el ferrocarril retiró un motor de tracción de la locomotora n.° 1504 y lo instaló en la n.° 1606. El 30 de enero de 2021, comenzó el desguace de las locomotoras n.° 1502, 1504 y 1754, las tres locomotoras inoperativas.

Referencias

  1. ↑ Asociación de Ferrocarriles Americanos , Ferrocarriles de Carga que Operan en Pensilvania. Archivado el 12 de junio de 2011 en Wayback Machine , 2006.
  2. ↑ "York Railway – Una compañía de Genesee & Wyoming" .
  3. ↑ Junta de Jubilación Ferroviaria , Determinación del estatus del empleador: York Railway Company y otros. Archivado el 17 de enero de 2009 en Wayback Machine , 19 de septiembre de 2000.
  4. ↑ Edward A. Lewis, Guía de ferrocarriles de corta distancia estadounidenses, 5.ª edición, Kalmbach Publishing , 1996, págs. 188-189, 345