CHANGE COAL INTO CRUSHED ROCK by Josef Brugger Photos courtesy of the Columbia Cascade & Western Modify Accurail offset-side hopper car loads for new traffic ... We run one “paired industry” on our club layout – a quarry and rock crusher up in the Oregon Cascades at Detroit, and a concrete batch plant down in the Willamette Valley at Brooks. The trip is barely 60 miles in the real world but our eight-car shuttle operation moves 560 tons of aggregate every run it makes. The operation is modeled on the Portland and Western’s “Rock Trains” youtube.com/watch?v=NDQ4msyEWu8 that run from the Reed pit near Brooks to online customers in the Hillsboro and Scappoose areas. • INDEX • TABLE OF CONTENTS