Last Update 5/11/09
NOTICE TO CREW MEMBERS
DO TO A DELAY IN COMPETION
OF THE THE INSTALLATION OF A DCC SYSTEM THE NEXT OPERATING SESSION WILL BE SCHEDULED AS SOON AS POSIBLE MAY BE EARLY JUNE
Watch
the crew page for details.
The installation of a DCC system to replace the existing block controls
will be completed soon.
A five cab MRC Prodigy Advance 2 is now being installed.
JN installs working grade crossing in Colesville
see video clip on photo pages. A second crossing with working gates in now being installed
The Jersey Northern is a freelance HO scale layout; the JN is
a bridge line serving Sussex County New Jersey. It links the NYS&W at Beaver Lake NJ to Conrail at Port Jervis NY. A crew
of 5 to 8 consisting of two yard masters, dispatcher, interchange crew, road master and up to three road crews operates the
JN. During a normal six-hour operating session up to 14 trains are operated depending upon the schedule being used. The Jersey Northern is a double deck point to point layout with two interchanges and two branch lines, Sparta/Ogdensburg
and Hanford.
An interchange
with the NYS&W at Beaver Lake and an interchange with Conrail at Port Jervis supply heavy interchange and run through
traffic. Two branch lines and eighteen online industries generate a lot of traffic for the crews. Road crews face complex
switching in Libertyville where both facing, trailing point setouts and pickups are the norm along with the ABI switcher.
Most road power on the Jersey
Northern are Alco’s including RS-1’s, RS-3’s, C424’s C425’s and one RSD-15. Two GE U-33’s
are presently out of service and stored at Hanford. The yards are handled by an S2, two S3’s and a S4. Ackerman Byrd
Industries owns and ex Rock Island S1 # 599 which is now ABI 599. 
