A lone gondola of scrap metal sits with the local caboose.
Several days later, another gon of scrap has arrived, along with Gen-set 300, in an otherwise empty Hillsdale Yard.
Paul and Jim are out with the maintenance truck, getting ready to inspect the signals and equipment cabinets along the line. The modern hi-rail lift truck is a lot better than the old handcars!
Jake has checked the securements on the tie handler and is now preparing to drive the machine to Dale City, where work on one of the sidings for the paper mill is ongoing.
A string of reefers awaits delivery to Johnson Foods. With Easter coming up, food production is in high gear -especially their potato salad!
3163 rests between moves. She'll be busy again soon enough.
A set of gons, filled with tarped loads of contaminated soil from a oil spill when a derailment occurred on MXCB90, the Cumberland-Baltimore manifest. Several oil tank cars derailed and, unfortunately, exploded and spilled their contents onto the ground. The contaminated soil is heading to a treatment center in Ohio.
AC4400 8105, the Interstate unit, is now part of Hillsdale's local switcher fleet. Here she arrives from Uniontown with a short train in tow.
A very short train -only two cars!
Actually, the boxcar is a track cleaning car. Made by MNP, it is a modified Walthers car with a pair of motorized cleaning pads underneath. The car is DC only, so I had to use a non-DCC locomotive to pull it. The car is also VERY heavy, hence the short train. The EOT is made by MAC Rails. While not "functional" (non-blinking), it is much easier to add and remove from a car, unlike the Ring Engineering unit, which requires a truck replacement (but does blink).
A longer local train leaves out next week!
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