Perishable Trafic

[Green_Elite_Cab]

The symbol was OJT, there was an OJT-1 and OJT-5, not sure if there were any others.

Bruce

I decided to dig deep into my Conrail Schedules to find more about this train during the years I model, and it appears that the PDFs are missing pages. It seems that the Unit trains are left out of many of the schedules and are not always complete.

I found the Orange Juice train in the March 1979 schedule listed as-

Unit Orange Juice Trains

Symbol- WAKE
Destination- Kearny, NJ
Consignee- Tropicana
Route- SCL/RF&P/CR


Clearly, this train would be a good canidate for an electrically powered freight, since the tracks from Potomac to Kearny are entirely under wire, except perhaps for the very last stretch to the Tropicana plant itself. Whats more, it appears that the same march schedule is used in the September 1979 schedule, implying the train has stayed the same. That said, none of the schedules mention the train symbol WAKE outside of the unit train section. I assume that this train would arrive early in the morning, but then again, there are videos of it in the daylight, and they don't make any mention of it being late.