About the Norfolk Southern Connector
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The Norfolk Southern Connector Railroad?
The Norfolk Southern Connector (NSC) is a freelanced HO Scale model railroad. The railroad, founded in 2004, was established as a connector between the Nickel City Line and other main line railroads to serve the communities of Joyceville, Barrtow, and Littleton. The town of Joyceville is small in size but contains many of the business, residential, and industrial venues seen in large cities. It contains an intermodal service facility that provides service between Joyceville and Barrtow. Other industries found in Joyceville are the Austin Fuel Company, a distributor of propane and other motor fuels and oils, the Elizabeth Pellet company, a major distributor of plastic pellets, and an NSC yard facility, the Joyceville yard that is used for consist classification. The NSC links the towns of Joyceville, Barrtow, and Littleton, Virginia and Nickel City, Pennsylvania where the NSC has an interchange with the Nickel City Line. While mining operations for gravel and other quarry related materials continues today, the route established by the NSC through the countryside is an older, well established single track route. The NSC possesses track rights on several other railroads and leases track rights on routes established or leased by Amtrak, Chessie System, Norfolk Southern and the Pennsylvania railroads. The NSC carries a myriad of freight, coal, ore, intermodal, fuel, chemicals and passengers on a daily basis. At least 11 trains travel over the NSC rails in a 24 hour period, offering the engineers working on the system many different situations and challenges. |