PASSING TRAINS PT3; MCP-91 (1)

One of the GE ET44AC demonstrators leads a short MCP-91 (Manifest, Cumberland-Pittsburgh) through town.

An AP&W 60' high-cube boxcar starts the train, providing a spacer between the locomotive and the heavy load on the next car.

A large 150 ton generator rides a heavy duty flatcar. It is heading west for rebuilding(!). It's unusual that it's being shipped out; normally a generator this large is rebuilt in place due to cost concerns, but in this case, it's actually been sold and the new owner is taking advantage of a tax write-off. The original power plant has been shut down and mothballed.

Behind the flatcar are more boxcars and a string of tank cars.

The tank cars are kaolin slurry cars. Note that while both cars are UTLX-owned, they have different lettering patterns and paint; the car on the left has higher reporting marks and the blue is lower along the bottom of the car, while the car on the right actually has a black underbody.

Following the kaolin cars is a woodchip car, lettered for Georgia Pacific. The other tank cars, along with the rest of the short train, will be looked at next week.