PASSING TRAINS PT29

An unscheduled extra, behind a single SD80MAC, rolls into town. With 5000hp, the engine is sufficient for the short train.

The first car is a specialized car that the real railroads don't need; a motorized track cleaning car! Clean track is obviously very important to reliable model train operation, but even more so when running DCC/sound-equipped engines. Cars such as this make the chore easier, and more realistic. Now, if I would just install the grab irons...

CRLE 10453 is a typical weathered boxcar, with a bit of graffiti.

A blue tank car. CELX 11262 has the number 1173 on its placard (above the right truck), identifying it as hauling ethyl acetate. Ethyl acetate is used as a solvent, as well as for cleaning circuit boards, decaffeinating coffee and tea and even in perfumes.

Schnabel car ACMX 502 returns from its trip to Delaware. In addition to having the two halves connected for a shorter car, it also now has painted wheelsets.

Behind the Schnabel car, is a string of molten sulfur tank cars.

While all four cars are black with yellow bands, note that the TILX car on the left has a brighter, and narrower, band than the CGTX car on the right, which also has conspicuity striping.

The balance of the train is filled out with orange DSEX flatcars hauling empty trash containers.