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Harrisburg Chapter Welcome to the NS Harrisburg East Dispatcher stream! About this Stream This stream is provided under the auspices of the Harrisburg Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in conjunction with The Central Pennsylvania Repeater Association amateur radio club, South Mountain Communications, Inc. and RailroadRadio.net as a service to the railfan community. For more information about these groups, please visit our websites at: Harrisburg Chapter - National Railway Historical Society: www.HarrisTower.org Central Pennsylvania Repeater Association: http://www.w3nd.org/ South Mountain Communications, Inc.: http://home.ptd.net/~bauker/smc.htm Special thanks go to: Brian Auker - N3JYD Gary Blacksmith - WA3CPO Kevin Maglouglin - KA0JQO Dan Rapak - WA3ATV and Jeff Vinton - W2JSV for their efforts in making this feed possible. The NS Harrisburg East territory is a major link in Norfolk Southern’s east-west railroad. The Reading, PA area is a nexus where trains from the port facilities in the Northern New Jersey / New York area merge with traffic from the Philadelphia area making this a very busy territory. The radio frequency is AAR Channel 50 - 160.860 MHz. This stream provides single channel, wide area coverage. It does not scan. Radio signals are received from Signal 341 / 342 east of Pottstown to BURKE at milepost HP 104.2 in the west to BLANDON at milepost RV 7.5 in the north. Most radios in this territory have been converted to Narrowband FM. However, some foreign power and some locomotives from the PRL and the R&N have yet to be converted. As a result, they are much louder than other transmissions. The NS Harrisburg East desk covers the following rail lines: - The Harrisburg Line from PHOENIX interlocking at milepost HP 27.5 near Phoenixville, PA to BURKE interlocking at milepost HP 104.2 near Hummelstown, PA - The Reading Line from WYOMISSING JUNCTION at milepost HP 61.2 / TW 9.4 at Wyomissing, PA to BLANDON at milepost RV 7.5 / TK 0.0 at Blandon, PA. - The Pottsville Branch - The Cornwall Industrial Track (what’s left of it) - The Evansville Industrial Track - The Pottstown Industrial Track - The Reading Industrial Track - The Richmond Street Industrial Track - The Spruce Street Industrial Track - The 11th Street Industrial Track This desk also dispatches the southern portion of the NS Buffalo Line. However, that line is not within radio reception range of this feed. Activity of note includes: - Traffic in and out of Reading Yard between BELT and OLEY. - Interchange traffic with the Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad at BELT and Reading Yard. - Work at Dyer’s Quarry on the Harrisburg Line Main Track (the “Turkey Path”) at Milepost GV 16.5. - PRL’s Lancaster & Northern exercising trackage rights between their connection to the NS Harrisburg Line at Sinking Springs (between WYOMISSING JCT and DORF on Track 2) and Reading Yard for interchange. - Work at the ethanol terminal at Sinking Springs, also between WYOMISSING JCT and DORF on Track 2. - Work by the “Hershey Shifter” moving cars between the various plants of Hershey Foods by way of several hand crossovers and hand switches between BURKE and MILLARDS. - You may also hear the NS Harrisburg Terminal Dispatcher on this frequency giving required verbal authorizations for trains to enter the Rutherford Industrial Track at BEAVER (only 0.8 mile west of the division post at BURKE.) Defect Detectors heard on this feed include: · Harrisburg Line: MP 34.5 - DE, HB MP 46.9 - DE, HB MP 56.0 - HC MP 60.9 - HC MP 63.5 - DE, HB MP 79.8 - DE, HB MP 90.5 - DE, HB MP 103.6 - DE, HB · Pottsville Branch: MP 61.1 - HC · Reading Line: MP 0.8 - DE, HB Also heard on this stream are some of the yard operations at Allentown Yard and Abrams Yard which use the same radio channel. Key locations on this territory are very well documented in “The Railfan’s Guide for Google Earth” available for download at: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/RailfansGuide/?yguid=217568047 Note that this is a large file and may take some time to load in Google Earth.
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