01-06-2012, 07:21 PM
Mark;
Stopped by the EFRR on the way home yesterday (Jan 5, 2012) from photographing and mapping out another small industrial operation and caught them working the TQW warehouse. Got you a much better photo of EFRR 2716 in its CGW paint scheme and in good light (late afternoon):
On arrival, there was a loaded box car sitting outside the TQW warehouse on the north side and 2716 was sitting outside idling on the south side. There was one box car in the warehouse that was being unloaded at that time.
Shortly after I shot some photos of 2716, that car was unloaded, and the one man crew using his remote control, moved 2716 in to the warehouse, coupled to the empty box and shoved to the north end to get the other load. Pulled it down and spotted it in the warehouse for unloading. After that the trainman, climbed in the cab, tied down the engine hand brake and left his controller and safety vest in the cab and went back in the warehouse to wait for the car to be unloaded.
All that is just to explain what is happening in this short video that I made of 2716 positioning the second load in the warehouse: http://youtu.be/T7AN15XLyOo. Sorry that I couldn't wait around to try and get more photos or another video of the empty cars being taken back to the CSX connection, but would have been much later and the light would be bad.
There were no cars spotted at any of the other industries nor were there any on the CN/IC end of the EFRR Thursday. Also no cars sitting on the storage tracks either. Looked like all the activity was strictly at the TQW warehouse and there were several 50ft box cars sitting on the CSX end of the line. Don't know for sure what was being unloaded from the box cars.
Must say that I rather like this one man remote control operation. Makes you think of operating your switching layout, but on a much larger scale.
Hope you find this update of interest.
Stopped by the EFRR on the way home yesterday (Jan 5, 2012) from photographing and mapping out another small industrial operation and caught them working the TQW warehouse. Got you a much better photo of EFRR 2716 in its CGW paint scheme and in good light (late afternoon):
Shortly after I shot some photos of 2716, that car was unloaded, and the one man crew using his remote control, moved 2716 in to the warehouse, coupled to the empty box and shoved to the north end to get the other load. Pulled it down and spotted it in the warehouse for unloading. After that the trainman, climbed in the cab, tied down the engine hand brake and left his controller and safety vest in the cab and went back in the warehouse to wait for the car to be unloaded.
All that is just to explain what is happening in this short video that I made of 2716 positioning the second load in the warehouse: http://youtu.be/T7AN15XLyOo. Sorry that I couldn't wait around to try and get more photos or another video of the empty cars being taken back to the CSX connection, but would have been much later and the light would be bad.
There were no cars spotted at any of the other industries nor were there any on the CN/IC end of the EFRR Thursday. Also no cars sitting on the storage tracks either. Looked like all the activity was strictly at the TQW warehouse and there were several 50ft box cars sitting on the CSX end of the line. Don't know for sure what was being unloaded from the box cars.
Must say that I rather like this one man remote control operation. Makes you think of operating your switching layout, but on a much larger scale.
Hope you find this update of interest.
Ed
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