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: 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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MRH-Mar 2013
