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alsorailfan wrote:11/19/07 420/425 out of Lakeville w/4 tankers and 6 covered hoppers. Picked up 5 covered hopper in Avon. Left the train at the S curve in Henrietta and ran light to GJ. Picked up a box car for Matthews Fields. There they split the engine, 425 backed up-coupled up to a covered hopper and empty center beam flat and then pulled forward to the drill track and backed up to hook up with 420. Left the box car and backed up to pick up the CP covered hopper from ??? business. Then went back for the box car, spotted it at Matthews. (That drill track can barely hold the 2 engines and 4 cars, don't know if it can hold a fifth car?? Anyone know??) Spotted the CP covered tanker back at the business and continued on back to the S curve. After they cleared BHTL road, they stopped (I was at E. River rd. then) and waited for CSX to drop off the incoming cars. (CSX backed up what seemed like 1 mph....might have been the cold wind finally getting to me.) Finally LAL went into GJ. CSX was still sitting on the West Shore, maybe to pick up the outgoing train?? By then it was somewhere around 14:00 and 14:50 and the wind won out. Just as well considering the time they left GJ.Nice report Chris! Very thorough. That customer if I recall correctly is named High Point Mills. They share the stub with M&F Lumber. That "drill track" and actually that whole branch off the LA&L used to be the Lehigh Valley to Rochester.
Chris
