Spent very little time at the layout this week, but I did take about 20 minutes or so to do some switching at the Midwest Plastics plant. Here's a few looks at what went on there...
The Midwest Plastics spur is there on the left, with a tank car of resin and a pair of plastic pellet covered hoppers waiting to be lifted out.
And here comes the GTW train (SD40 5931 leading) that's going to switch cars in and out.
The engines beginning their run-around move to get into position to pull the cars out of the industry's spur.
The plant does have one boxcar loading door at the far end. A view from beneath the overpass shows this ex-MTW car as it's being shoved into place.
Here's that same boxcar tucked in behind the fence and quite a bit of overgrowth.
The local railfans (that's me) are happy to see this former DuPont 3-bay covered hopper making an appearance on the line. Plus one, or maybe even two, loaded airslide hoppers as well.
I failed to get a picture of it in the train, but the GTW also dropped this tank car of resin at the molding plant. (The tank car was originally labelled as for chlorine service, but I removed that lettering and use these as liquid resin cars - I'm thinking of it as modelers' license.)
And this last shot will be of the engines getting ready to head back the way they came from. Or maybe they've got some more switching to do at the paper recycler next door to the plastics plant.
That'll be it for now. Have a nice long weekend everybody.