are moved ahead of time, no runaround is required. CP will occasionally arrive with an ex-Delaware & Hudson wide vision caboose at the end of their train, which is left at the south end of the runaround, a detail that adds a little work and a lot of interest. GP38-2’s are common CP power and until a few years ago, a chopped-nose GP9 could be seen making deliveries.
Design considerations More than anything, I wanted to cap-
ture the linearity of South Troy, a fea- ture common to most sites on modern
railroads. To capture this look it is crit- ical that buildings and industries be far longer than a boxcar or two. I was able to find space for an eight foot by five foot L-shaped shelf in a spare room. To ensure the layout does not oppress occupants of the room, the major side has been limited to one foot in width and the short side is to be only six inches wide. Since the layout will be slightly above eye-level, strict ad- herence to the prototype’s trackplan is not critical; however I do want to en- able prototypical operations. To save on space, I decided to not in-
A Canadian Pacific crew switches out Inter- state Commodities with an ex-D&H GP38-2. The CP serves the industrial track weekly. A mile-long run-around track starts in front of the Interstate Commodities plant.
yard. Salt is unloaded via a conveyor belt and is moved to dump trucks and front-end loaders which drive the salt to the top of the pile. After a sufficient amount has been delivered, the pile is covered with an enormous black tarp held down with sandbags.
Operations
CSX typically arrives in South Troy early in the morning. Interstate is ac- cessed via a switchback. Since the emp- ties have already been pulled off the spur with the trackmobile, all the crew has to do is pull forward with a cut of grain cars. After clearing Interstate’s switch, the cut is shoved back through a narrow shed where the cars will be un- loaded later. The engineer picks up the conductor and runs a mile south to the far end of the runaround. Now on the south end of the cars, the engineer picks up any empties at K&C, parks them on a spare track and delivers the loads. In the spring, the salt operation can add a fair amount of work as the emp- ties are often buried behind the loads. After setting empties on a spare
track, more loads are delivered. All of the work done following the servicing of Interstate Commodities is generally performed after one runaround move, resulting in a long string of cars mov- ing back and forth as the cars are sort- ed on the spare tracks at the north end of the Troy Industrial Track. Canadian Pacific usually has a car or two to swap out at Interstate Com- modities on Sunday nights. As empties
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