Keystone Trains

                          Running Trains is the point of all this. We operate many types of trains or Train Archetypes if you will. Each Train Archetype has its own rules. The Train Archetypes are grouped into Classes. Each Class has a Train number range available to it. These numbers often follow a convention that they run East-West and West-East only (or North-South and South-North only) regardless of the actual geography of the trackwork. We use East and West point-to-point flows. We use even numbers if the flow is eastbound (West-East) trains and odd numbers if the flow is westbound.

We have five major and two minor Class of train. They are from the highest priority down: Passenger, Manifest/Fast, Unit, Way, Local, Maintenance of Way (MOW), and Wreck.

The following Trains list is still under development at this time but shows where we are headed. Buyer/Seller driven workloads will force us to refine the trains, stops and (daily) schedules for Regular Trains. Here is where we stand at this time;

Passenger Trains (1st Class)

Manifest (Fast) Freights (2nd Class)

Manifest Freight Trains move freight cars between two or more yards or interchanges in several divisions. Travel legs followed by our manifest trains are:

• Reading Yard - Philadelphia Yard
• Reading Yard - Erie Yard
• Philadelphia Yard - Reading Yard
• Philadelphia Yard - Erie Yard
• Erie Yard - Cleveland Interchange
• Erie Yard - Buffalo Interchange
• Philadelphia Yard - Easton Interchange (tbd)
• Philadelphia Yard - Baltimore Interchange (tbd)

Unit Trains (3rd Class)

Unit Trains are the exception to the home yard freight car movement rule. A Unit train moves a string of freight cars from the shipper to the consignee without picking up or setting out cars at another industry or intermediate yard. The Unit trains we run are:

• Coal  - Sunbury Deep Mine or  Girardville Strip Mine to Anthracite Exporters at Bulk Port
• Coal - Sunbury Deep Mine or  Girardville Strip Mine to Niagara Power via Buffalo Interchange
• Coal - Sunbury Deep Mine or  Girardville Strip Mine to Dayton Power via Cleveland Interchange
• Oil - Drake Oil to DuPont Chemical via Baltimore Interchange
• Logs - Yeagerstown RR Interchange in Ashland to Williamsport Lumber
• Finished Lumber - Williamsport Lumber to Philadelphia Container Port

Way Freights (4th Class)

Way Freight Trains move freight cars between two yards in a single division.

Local Trains (5th Class)

Local Trains move full or empty (MT) freight cars between the yard and the industries it serves. We schedule an average of 30 fast minutes per car for pickup or setout. Some more time is needed when a run around is required. A little less is needed for a trailing point siding setout or pickup. The locals we run are:

• Reading 1 - RDG yard, Reading, Bethlehem, Pottsville, Frackville Girardville, Ashland, Shamokin, Indiantown Gap, RDG yard
• Pottsville 1 - Pottsville yard,  Hazleton, Easton, Hershey, Harrisburg, Sunbury, Philadelphia Reverse, Pottsville yard
• Philadelphia 1 - Phila. Yard, Philadelphia 5 city industry siding tracks, Phila. Yard
• Philadelphia 2 - Phila. Yard, Oil & Gas Port, Container Port, Delaware River Bulk Port, Lancaster, Phila. Yard
• Erie 1 - Erie Yard, Titusville, State College, Williamsport, Laporte, Tunkhannock, Scranton, Wilkes Barre,  Erie Yard
• Erie 2 - Erie Yard, Titusville. Sunbury. Harrisburg, Hershey, Easton, Hazleton, Erie Yard.

MOW Trains

Wreck Trains