After the yardmaster clears your signal and lines you into
arrival/departure track #2, you ease into the yard with your
bell sounding, and drift to a stop. The snapper engineer has
uncoupled from the cabin car “on the fly” as you entered the
yard. The snapper will head for the coaling tower and water
plug prior to returning to the East Valley snapper track.
Slogging up the hill has consumed much of your water supply,
so you uncouple from your train and pull forward to the freight
water plug. The yardmaster throws a crossover behind you so
that the yard switcher can cross over from the yard lead to the
arrival/departure tracks.
There are five cars on the front of your train that are to be
routed to local trains originating in Annville. The UP boxcar on
the head end has some dragging equipment, and will be routed
to the Annville RIP track prior to being classified into a local
Pennsylvania & Western RR - 3
3: EC-11 is seen drifting into East Valley past the PRR freight
house.The 2-10-0 on the left will shove the train over the hill
to Annville Yard.
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4: East Valley is compact but busy.Left to right are a team
track, the helper track, a coal supply track, EC-11 on the main
line, and the freight house track.Locomotive 9860 is sitting
on the turnout to the secondary main.The main line is double
track from East Valley to Annville.
train. The switcher removes these cars and replaces them with
three cars bound for Pittsburgh and points west.
You back onto your train and pump up the air. As you leave
Annville, you observe coal drag SE-32 on the trestle above,
running eastbound headed for Lebanon. This train originated
in the coal marshalling yard at Shire Oaks, and most of the coal
is bound for the port of Philadelphia.
You proceed on to Lebanon and hold the main. The LW
(Lebanon West) tower operator has set the signal ahead to
a stop indication in preparation for a meet with SE-32. Once
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