IN THE YARDS PT24

With the testing of GE's latest engines, the ET44 series, the GE test car has been on the move.

These photos show the car sitting in Hillsdale Yard one afternoon. But where are the engines?

Another look at the yard shows two 'wood' loads; wood chips in the big hopper car at the rear for the paper mill in Dale City, and a load of ties in the gondola beside it. The new ties are headed to a treatment facility to be soaked in creosote before finally being delivered for placement on a rail line somewhere, probably in the Midwest after an oil train derailment.Speaking of oil trains, with the announcement of a run of detailed crude oil tank cars by a new manufacturer, and with Hillsdale being on the main line from the Midwest to Baltimore, oil trains may soon be running through town in the coming months!