IN THE YARDS PT4

As another train passes through, the cars from last week's extra to Cumberland sit in the yard.

A look inside the cars shows the evidence quite well; they were hauling gravel for sure!

As seen in the lead photo, the passing train is also carrying some gravel loads; here is a close-up of one of the cars.

A view of another car. Notice the shape of the loads; the cars are loaded by conveyor belts. Herzog  leases out freight cars for maintenance-of-way service, and also provides rail defect detection and rail grinding services.

Brad talks with Dale Williams about local goings-on, as two other men look on.

An excursion train leaves town with a string of old heavyweight passenger cars, including this Solarium car on the rear. While open platform observation cars were popular at first, when train speeds began to pick up early in the 20th century they were not a lot of fun -like standing out in a wind storm! Thus, the advent of the fully enclosed observation, with its large end windows for rear-ward viewing. On some railroads, the car was called a Solarium because of these windows.