Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 509 awaits a private car to be detached from a nearby Pacific Surfliner consist, before switching the car out of Union Station, Los Angeles.
The local will drop the tank cars containing vegetable oil while the trucker will pull out from under his trailer so it can be lifted by hydraulic rams to discharge the load of potatoes. What is m... (more)
P2V meanders through the backwoods of Harnett County behind B32-8 3535 and GP38-2 5107. Senter is home to a Becker Sand & Gravel sand pit, which used to be a big customer for the railroad.
On the return leg of its run from Linwood to Winston-Salem, P1W heads south through High Point. The crew was running short on time and would tie the train down in Thomasville.