A look ar some of the boxcars in Hillsdale Yard, including a pair of Southern "waffle-side" boxcars. The one on the right is the original paint scheme, while the all-brown car represents a recently re-painted car -right before the 1982 merger with the Norfolk and Western that resulted in today's Norfolk Southern.
Along with the RailBox cars are a pair of insulated boxcars from merger partner Frisco. Also seen are more FGE reefers in the foreground.
A covered hopper and a Thrall all-door boxcar sit on the East side of Hillsdale Yard. The boxcar is headed to Smitty Lumber, with a load of wallboard (a.k.a. sheetrock). The "all-door" design made for easier loading and unloading, but center-beam bulkhead flatcars are even easier to work with -they have no doors to slide open and closed, and the 72' length verses the 56" length of the boxcars mean more capacity as well.
A pair of GATX Airslide hoppers, fresh from delivering sugar to the new City Fizz soda plant in Dale City. City Fizz began using real sugar in its products, but like most soda manufacturers, switched to corn syrup by the late 90's.
An ADM hopper returns from delivering sunflower seeds to Johnson Foods -at the time they made trail mixes. Behind the hoppers are several gondolas with loads from Wilson Steel Works, and behind those are a string of tri-level autoracks.
More gons full of Wilson products, including a coil steel car, both owned by Conrail.
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