DCF 13

 DCF13 returns from City Fizz...

The east end of Hillsdale Yard is already full. ET44AC demo unit 2022 sits in the yard, along with several intermodal cars, a string of boxcars and a loaded centerbeam flatcar.

Gen-set 300 arrives with a string of empty cars, including a boxcar on the head end that supplied bottles (a lot).

Of course, the bulk of the train is corn syrup tank cars. Here is a string of ADM cars. These are 19000 gal cars; note the indented ladders to accommodate the wider body.

More 19k tanks. These are owned by Trinity, the maker of the cars, and are leased out to shippers. The first car is black, while the other two are light grey.

At the end of the train is a string of Corn Products cars leased from UTLX. These are older 17,600 gal cars -note the narrower bodies. When the Gross Rail Loading (GRL) was raised from 268k to 286k in the mid 90's, the larger 19k tank cars became possible. However, since making a longer car would mean that then-current loading/unloading facilities would have to be rebuilt, the newer cars were instead made wider, while keeping the same overall car length, making trains like this -with old and new cars serving the same customer- possible.