Eastern Railroad Discussion > Something amiss on the Lurgan Branch

I came home from work today to find the Winding Hill crossing blocked by a northbound container train. It was stopped by the signal just south of CP-Ross. (The Lurgan branch runs between Hagerstown Md and Harrisburg Pa.) I don't know what was going on but there sure were a bunch of bright white NS maintenance trucks gathered to look at the problem. My understanding is that the train was stopped for roughly 2 hours from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Shortly after 6:30 the crew on the ground waved the train off.

Anyone know what the story was? 

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I don't know if it's related or not, but NS did run the Sperry Truck down the Lurgan yesterday.  They had at least two defects that they had to change out.

I was at Shenandoah Junction, WV, from about 10:30 to 15:30 hours and saw only n/b V86 and n/b 227 on NS.  I did hear the dispatcher tell the V86 crew that their power (#9640 only) would go on s/b 37Q at Vardo because it was underpowered.  Gerry