GATX 397 working North yard. Was not able to see if there was a second unit. Usually the job is held down by two GPs and sometimes a PAL GP and a lease or test unit.
PAL 4503 sitting outside the PAL shops while PAL 2119 sits on the back leg of the wye.
MOW equipment parked at the South end of the shops and a general view of what was parked at that end.
Some of the power sitting on the ready tracks along the shop PAL 2127 2131 4510 4523.
PAL 4523 4504 3817 3831 father down the ready track
GATX 397 switching
Mayfield local parked in south yard, no crew but the power is running. PAL 3811 8507. First two cars are PAL hoppers.
PAL 3811
PAL 3811 camera, door lock and wiper detail
side view of 8507, rear still equipped with standard bulbs in headlight
PAL 851010 returning empty from Mayfield
PAL 2205 returning empty from Mayfield
PAL 8507 side view
seven Cargill hoppers and empty center beams behind
eight center beams yellow one is TTX rest are mixed short lines
back side of 3811
PAL 701450 in a line of PAL boxcars in south yard
PAL 701410 in a line of PAL boxcars in south yard
PAL 701422 in south yard
PAL 701427 in south yard
looking at the old stickers and patch panels on the side of the car
closeup of stickers on PAL 701427
PAL 701411 south yard
PAL 701412 looks a lot different than PAL 7014411
PAL 401421
PAL 701421 detail of door and sticker over tack board
PAL 701413
PAL 701425 last PAL boxcar in the line
Plastic pellet hoppers in storage in South yard, most likely in Westlake service
South end of VMV
Close up of the yards. Anyone have pics of the flat and hopper?
dead units, locomotive cores and empty space in the back lot
looking at the dead units from the Irving Cobb overpass
Ghost of the third track, the main line of the city lead, and the passing track that has the VMV sidings
North end of North yard looking under the "Chester Hack" bridge.
same place different prospective
old TOFC ramp along old TOFIC track, North end north yard
portable bulk unloading tower along old TOFC track
At least one Southern hopper leading the two Paducah cabooses and hopper PAL 825002 and finally flatcar PAL 900015
North yard overview
Looking at the city lead from North yard
Different look at North yard, note the trainman walking along the cut of covered hoppers with the EOT, most likely bleeding the break cylinders from a Calvert local. The end car is WLPX 60575 is from Westlake Plastics.
Photo galleries
GATX 397 working North yard. Was not able to see if there was a second unit. Usually the job is held down by two GPs and sometimes a PAL GP and a lease or test unit.
PAL 4503 sitting outside the PAL shops while PAL 2119 sits on the back leg of the wye.
MOW equipment parked at the South end of the shops and a general view of what was parked at that end.
Some of the power sitting on the ready tracks along the shop PAL 2127 2131 4510 4523.
PAL 4523 4504 3817 3831 father down the ready track
GATX 397 switching
Mayfield local parked in south yard, no crew but the power is running. PAL 3811 8507. First two cars are PAL hoppers.
PAL 3811
PAL 3811 camera, door lock and wiper detail
side view of 8507, rear still equipped with standard bulbs in headlight
PAL 851010 returning empty from Mayfield
PAL 2205 returning empty from Mayfield
PAL 8507 side view
seven Cargill hoppers and empty center beams behind
eight center beams yellow one is TTX rest are mixed short lines
back side of 3811
PAL 701450 in a line of PAL boxcars in south yard
PAL 701410 in a line of PAL boxcars in south yard
PAL 701422 in south yard
PAL 701427 in south yard
looking at the old stickers and patch panels on the side of the car
closeup of stickers on PAL 701427
PAL 701411 south yard
PAL 701412 looks a lot different than PAL 7014411
PAL 401421
PAL 701421 detail of door and sticker over tack board
PAL 701413
PAL 701425 last PAL boxcar in the line
Plastic pellet hoppers in storage in South yard, most likely in Westlake service
South end of VMV
Close up of the yards. Anyone have pics of the flat and hopper?
dead units, locomotive cores and empty space in the back lot
looking at the dead units from the Irving Cobb overpass
Ghost of the third track, the main line of the city lead, and the passing track that has the VMV sidings
North end of North yard looking under the "Chester Hack" bridge.
same place different prospective
old TOFC ramp along old TOFIC track, North end north yard
portable bulk unloading tower along old TOFC track
At least one Southern hopper leading the two Paducah cabooses and hopper PAL 825002 and finally flatcar PAL 900015
North yard overview
Looking at the city lead from North yard
Different look at North yard, note the trainman walking along the cut of covered hoppers with the EOT, most likely bleeding the break cylinders from a Calvert local. The end car is WLPX 60575 is from Westlake Plastics.