IN THE YARDS PT2

The UPS driver has a package for the yard office. Deliveries for the shops are usually delivered by box truck.

Brand-new ES44AC 7096 sits outside the car shop, basking in the sun. This is one of the last locomotives the AP&W has purchased new; so far it hasn't purchased any of the latest from either EMD or GE.

MOW equipment; a CAT M323F excavator sits in the yard, as spring track work preparations begin. The M323F is a versatile piece of equipment; the digging bucket can be swapped out for either a tie handler or a ballast temper head, making the task of replacing bad ties quick and easy.

Another piece of CAT equipment; a CT681 dump truck, loaded with gravel. Unfortunately, Caterpillar ended production of the CT681 after only about 15 months in Feb 2016, when it discontinued all heavy duty truck production and left the market after an apparent fall-out with Navistar -upon whose platforms the CT series was based.

The CAT M323F and a crew bus sit in the lot at the end of the day