Eastern Railroad Discussion > A Busy Sunday around Keyser, WV - 17 September 2017

Sunday, 17 September 2017 started started off in the early afternoon.

1) The local out of the West Virginia Central Yard at Beryl, WV brings the Outbound traffic to Keyser for pickup by a later train. B770-17 eastbound at Keymont, WV.

2) B770-17 arriving at Keyser, WV. The #333 is part of the power for the day's B772-17 making up their train in the East Yard.

3) Foreground B772-17 collects a covered hopper to use as a buffer car for their train, while the B770-17 in the background shoves the outbound traffic onto the Freight Track.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/17 05:31 by DTWilson.

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1) and 2) N782-16 eastbound at Piedmont, WV. They will stop at Keyser to pickup additional Loads.

3) Q317-17 arrives at Keyser. With no inbound traffic for the WVC Junction, they will still have to stop at Keyser while Dispatch runs the B772-17 ahead of them.

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1) A friendly wave as they depart westbound......N782-16 (left) waits for the B772-17 to clear the east yard before they can pick up their additional loads.

2) B772-17 westbound at Piedmont, WV.

3) 17 minutes later ... Q317-17 westbound at Piedmont, WV.

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1) Cooling Their Heels ....Q316-15 holding at Piedmont, WV while the N782-16 shoves their additional loads out of the yard at Keyser.

2) N782-16 shoving 60 loads out of the east yard at Keyser back to their train. They will go east with 130 loads. The cars to the left of the drag will be part of the pickup for Q316.

3) With the coal drag clear of Keyser, Q316-15 is eastbound at Keymont, WV. They will stop to pick up cars off the Freight Track and cars in the east yard.

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1) Power from Q316-15 heads down the eastbound siding to gather the cars in the east yard.

2) 2 hrs. - 35 mins. later...... Q316-15 (left) has finished all the necessary Class 1 brake tests on the cars at Keyser and is finally ready to head east. To the right, S317-18 has set out a pair of locomotives for a work train on Monday.

2) Final Train of the day..... S317-18 westbound at Piedmont, WV.

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Nice pics!!

Good stuff Tim.

Randy