Western Railroad Discussion > coal minority on Joint Line today . .

. . an unusual morning on the normal coal heavy Joint Line with this empty Georgetown "dump train" at Monument waiting to meet a northbound coal empty. Strangely the previous meet here not long before were north AND southbound BNSF empty auto rack trains? I guess they can't make up their minds. Also a couple of manifest and a southbound empty wind blade train, a strange short southbound grain train, then went to lunch down in the Springs and and on return paced another northound coal empty up to Palmer Lake after which a southbound empty wind generator tower train just passed. Only shot the dump train though on another beautiful day in the neighborhood.
JB

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The history of that Georgetown dump train is that it used to be owned by Westmoreland Coal Co., and was stationed in the Andover, Va area. It ran between the mines on the former Southern's St. Charles Branch to the processing plant at Wentz, Va. typically with a 4 axle motor on each end.Glad to see it's still in use.

NSTopHat

NSTopHat Wrote:
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> The history of that Georgetown dump train is that
> it used to be owned by Westmoreland Coal Co., and
> was stationed in the Andover, Va area. It ran
> between the mines on the former Southern's St.
> Charles Branch to the processing plant at Wentz,
> Va. typically with a 4 axle motor on each end.Glad
> to see it's still in use.
>
> NSTopHat

Conrail had one back in day also running around the Baltimore area ... from the caption in my Conrail Commodities book the train ran a 134 mile round trip between the Gen Corp plant at Texas 12 miles north of B&P Jct on the Cockeysville Industrial and an unloading site in Waldorf 30 miles south of Bowie on the Pope's Creek Secondary

nice photos JB



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