The westbound Steel City rolls through town with it's typical short train.
What's atypical is the last car, a seasonal addition; a dome car for fall tree watchers!
An unscheduled extra out of Uniontown arrives in Hillsdale, with cars for local delivery. The first two cars are going to Dale City; the paper mill and Johnson Foods respectively.
There are also four tank cars of molten sulfur for Keystone Fertilizers, a local fertilizer plant (sulfur is used in fertilizers among other things). The last two cars are for RO Packaging.
Two of the sulfur cars. Note that while both are owned by TGOX, they are painted -and stenciled- differently. Along with fertilizers, sulfur is also used in paints, detergents, fungicides, paper, glass and explosives(!). The cars are insulated to keep the material in its liquid state -250-290 degrees!
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