L&N Industrial Rail Spur

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Switching Session

Y101 the first shift yard crew has to make a run on the City Spur to switch Blommer Chocolates and Clark Distributing. Ordinarily, Y301 the third shift crew does most of the work on the spur, but Blommer is in need of two cars of corn syrup and can't wait, so the crew gathers up the cars currently in the yard and heads out on the spur.

Here's what our switch list looks like (everything lists from the south end):

*** FROM YARD ***
TLDX 3124 LC113 BEANS BLOMMER NO 1
GACX 56410 LC413 SUGAR BLOMMER HOLD
GATX 4494 LT104 HFCS BLOMMER NO 4
ATSF 625332 LA645 BEER CLARK

*** BLOMMER CHOCOLATES ***
CNW 178665 LC113 BEANS BLOMMER NO 2
BN 461931 EC113 MTY PULL
ADMX 53152 EC413 MTY PULL
UTLX 600015 ET104 MTY PULL
ADMX 15818 LT104 HFCS BLOMMER NO 3

*** CLARK DISTRIBUTING ***
MP 793012 ER610 MTY PULL

In Photo01, we've shoved to the end of the spur and dropped our cab. You can see what's on spot on the Blommer track in this view. While Conductor Chitwood is daydreaming, the crew has pulled north of the Bloomer switch and dropped the inbound load of cocoa beans on the lead.     In Photo02, we've dropped our inbound load of cocoa beans and are getting ready to shove in to the Bloomer spur on ADMX 15818 which will be spotted for unloading today.     In Photo03 Conductor Chitwood has talked to the plant foreman and all hoses and conveyors have been pulled from the cars and personnel doors have been blocked off; we couple up and pull everything from the spur.     In Photo04, we've picked up our inbound load of cocoa beans and set it and CNW 178665 clear of the road crossing. We've also set our three outbound empties on our cab and we're dropping GACX 46410 on the lead so that we can get our two loaded tank cars together. Typically, Bloomer will keep two cars of cocoa beans, one car of sugar and one tank of HFCS spotted on their track, but often this will vary. Today, they want two cars of HFCS spotted to unload and will hold the car of sugar until the next switch. Sometimes they may have two cars of sugar on spot and no tank cars.     In Photo05, we've coupled everything up and are ready to spot Blommer's cars on their track.     Continued - next posting...