PASSING TRAINS PT7

Another look at passing trains through town...

Yet another intermodal train! This one, ND39, is heading eastbound for Dayton, Oh. One of four intermodal trains that pass through Hillsdale, ND39 is New York City to Dayton, the return train is DN39. The sight of a pair of GE Dash 8's on an intermodal is increasingly rare these days, as these engines are now 20 years old!

The first car is an all-purpose stack car, capable of hauling containers or trailers, as seen here.

This train is almost solid Schneider trailers and containers.

Some of the newer white Schneider containers are in the mix, breaking up the string of orange.

As the train leaves town, note the Allied Van Lines container -it fits in perfectly with the orange Schneider equipment!
The ND/DN39 is often the eastern counterpart to the Schneider train that CSX  and KCS operate in the  Midwest, between St. Louis and Dayton. ND/DN39 also stops in Baltimore, and Columbus, Oh., on the way to and from Dayton. In the future, however, this train may be combined with the TKC/KCT35 Trenton-Kansas City train; with more operators using containers versus trailers, the usefulness of an all-trailer train is now questionable, plus the additional stops made by ND/DN39 make it more attractive to customers who are not shipping all the way to Kansas City.