BURNT HILLS AND BIG FLATS RAILROAD
Color Coded Tacks
Freight car forwarding is accomplished on the model through the use of color coded tacks on the roof of the cars. Although less realistic than paper waybills, the tacks make it easy to keep track of which cars go where. Once delivered, cars stay in their delivered location until re-tacked at the end of the "second shift". Listings are arranged from South to North.
BLACK Capouse Branch
- LV - Lehigh Valley Coxton Yard
- EL - Erie Lackawanna Taylor Yard
WHITE Big Flats PA
- D1 - Delaware Breaker Track 1
- D2 - Delaware Breaker Track 2
- H1 - Erie Lackawanna Hampden Yard Track 1
- H2 - Erie Lackawanna Hampden Yard Track 2
- C - McCormick's Coal
- GE - General Electric plant lead
WHITE Mason PA
- MT - Mason Team
- M - Mason Coal Loading
- O - Ontario Mine
BROWN Scranton PA
- 1, 2, 3 - Central of New Jersey tracks 1,2,3
- L - Lackawanna Tool and Die
- F - Scranton Freight House
SILVER Mayfield Yards
- W - Westinghouse
- X - Behling Electronics
- E - Engine Terminal
- T - Team and TOFC
- S - Car Shops
PINK Northwest Branch
- 1, 2, 3 - Northwest Breaker
- T - Team and Starucca Lumber
RED Cadosia NY
- C1, C2, C3 - Charles Auter
- SF - Smyrna Freight
- ST - Smyrna Team
RED Burnt Hills NY
- S - Spear Machine Co.
- M - M&M Welding
- O - O. H. Wright
- T - Team
- F - Freight
- I - Ignorsall-Rand
YELLOW Delhi NY
RED South Unadilla NY
YELLOW Sidney NY
- T - Team Track
- U - Una-Lam
- M - Mead
- A - Amphenol Aerospace
- E - Eagle Shipping
BLUE D&H Interchange (Sidney NY)
- DH - Delaware and Hudson to Canada and New England
GREEN Northern Division
- N - Norwich Yard
- S - Syracuse NY
- O - Oswego NY (Niagara Mohawk power plant)
- U - Utica NY
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Last Modified: September 19, 2008