Most of the time, if stone is in side dump cars, the cars are being sent to Himrod to unload at a pit, for customers. This is the place where the majority of the side dump traffic goes.
Occasionally, private land owners have bought stone for residential use south of Himrod. The U.S. Salt plant boiler project took quite a few cars, last year, but that is basically done now.
Most of the time, if stone is in ballast cars, it is being used for company ballast programs.
Some of the time, side dumps are used for company purposes such as rip-rap projects, clean-up projects, etc.
2309 is outside the enginehouse for work prior to use. Cab interior painting, batteries, engine bearings, fresh oil, some body work, new airbrakes, etc. before trying to run it. Its on an 'as-time-permits' schedule. Hopefully the grafitti comes off easily.
2310 has some issues. It will likely be OOS for some time.It was never fully drained, apparently, by a previous owner, and suffered freeze damage to some components. Thankfully, the block seems sound. It is stored on a yard track in Geneva.
Painting is important to the Finger Lakes, but it is expensive and time consuming. Current heavy business demands most locomotives to be out in service. Hopefully one or two will get painted this year. (Corporate lightening stripe is planned if it happens.)