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massive, the company does own a GE 44-tonner that has been
recently refurbished and obtained for quite a deal. The main
industry is the movement of grain, with a rumored ethanol
plant to be coming soon.
The operations would begin with the shortline’s GE 44-tonner
coupled to three cars and a caboose sitting on the mainline.
The train then runs around the loop several times to simulate
it going somewhere. The train then leaves the empty hoppers
on the mainline and proceeds to pull the three loaded hoppers
out of the spur by the grain elevator. After a run around move,
the locomotive couples onto the empty hoppers and spots
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them on the spur in front of the elevator. After attaching the
caboose to the end of the train, the train runs around the loop
several times at which point it arrives at the barge terminal
load out facility. There it drops the loaded hoppers and then
runs light (just engine and caboose) back to the mainline spur
and parks for the night.
The operating possibilities can easily be expanded as more
time and money allow for the purchase of more cars. The rear
interchange/staging track could be used to spot more hop-
per cars destined for other locations as well as supplying box-
cars or loaded flat cars for the team track located next to the
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