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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