If you modeled this, nobody would believe it.

[Zox]

Remember, that's supposed to be a double track line so who knows how it got like that,

I would guess that, with right-hand running, the loads are coming toward the camera and the empties are going away. Less grain in the empty cars means less growth between the rails.

[termite]

 Years ago there was a grain silo and mill near the old N&W passenger station at Lynchburg, Va., that served as a pickup point for the local farmers' winter wheat and rye. The thing I remember most about it was that the siding was street level track, and the section beside the mill itself had the original street's cobblestones exposed between the rails. I can remember seeing that same green carpet sprouting around the cobblestones and all the way down the siding to the main line

[Ed Kapuscinski]

That's the lurgan, right?

[Dupesy]

two other gross commodities I've dealt with are ground up animal bones for Eastman-Gelatin and rotten bread stuffed into boxcars going who knows where.  The bone chips leak from the covered hoppers in the yards then rot, making a nasty mess.  The rotten bread stinks, and in hot weather actually drips out from around the boxcar doors.  I have no idea where it goes or what gets done with it.

[conrail98]

That's the lurgan, right?

Ed, if you're referring to my pics, no, that was in downtown Lebanon, Pa.

Phil

[conrail98]

Remember, that's supposed to be a double track line so who knows how it got like that,

I would guess that, with right-hand running, the loads are coming toward the camera and the empties are going away. Less grain in the empty cars means less growth between the rails.

I don't know, that would be the westbound track. I would figure loads would be coming east, mostly, but who knows with the way cars are moved over that line,

Phil

[brokemoto]

I like the photograph of the ex-PRR cabin car painted CONRAIL blue, but is now so weathered that the original PRR keystone herald is once more showing.  This demonstrates that when a new owner acquires a piece of equipment, he does not strip the paint, as we modellers often do.  He simply paints over the old paint job.

[Guilford Guy]

I have no idea where it goes or what gets done with it.

Pan Am hazmat clean up. Why bother taking chances covering over the spill with ballast when you can just derail a load of rotten bread in it to soak up the mess?

[Bsklarski]

Those two cars may be the ones that K&L feeds in Yantic Ct, had ordered, but they closed down before they emptied them. They are an NECR customer. As far as the grain and grass in the gauge goes, that's pretty close. I see it mostly from empties, as they hopper doors are not shut super tight. Banging the cars around during switching opens them enough to where they leave trails. Lime cars, and corn cars too. We had a conductor pull a car from a customer, who was told it was empty. Well it was not fully empty and one of the hoppers were still open, he left a path of corn from the spot all the way down to the main line. it was rail deep in the gauge. This was the same customer as told above, the one in Yantic. Well they have a nice corn field in the track where they where. At least the deer love them for it!

Brian
NECR Engineer

[RockGp40]

Nothing a good spraying (or two) couldn't handle.  Just sayin'...