Our last PRSL run of the day will be the WY841 / WY840 Penns
Grove turn. We head out with a reefer to be iced in Woodbury (before going to
yet another south Jersey farm), a chemical tank car for Shell Plastics in
Thorofare (off-line), and a tanker for DuPont in Deepwater (off-line), in
addition to 5 loaded hopper cars.
In Westville we drop
3 hopper loads at the PRSL generating station. (The other 2 hoppers will go to
Barry Bros in town but they will be delivered on the northbound return run.)
While here we need to snag an empty covered
hopper from Buzby Cement.
Leaving town we can see the hopper car that we will be retrieving on the
return trip.
In Woodbury we meet WY80 on its return northbound leg with 8
loads from the Sunoco refinery in Paulsboro and the 3 loads it had picked up
from Texaco on its initial southbound leg.
We drop the our reefer for icing (and retrieve 2 iced
reefers for delivery).
Going and Coming. We head down the Penns Grove
branch as WY841 to service the off-line Shell Chemical plant in Thorofare, DuPont
in Deepwater, and several southern New Jersey farms.
The deliveries having been made we return as WY840
northbound training only an empty and 2 loads.
The Barry brothers delivery was a bit tricky. The coal unloading trestle is not going to hold a locomotive's weight and we had such a short
train.
First we used the 3 cars we have to snag the empty
hopper and plop it temporarily just in front of the remaining cabin (caboose)
on the main line. Now we are too short to deliver the 2 loaded hoppers and keep
the engine off the wood trestle, so we drop the 2 hoppers at the base of the
siding. Back up and re-snag the empty hopper. This leaves us with enough cars to
push the 2 loads up onto the trestle.
Now we can reconnect our short train. We are now
done for the day and are anxious to head back to Pavonia to sign out.
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