End of Trains

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Just to add to Jeff's comment. I am told that when an Amtrak special  
was in Roanoke Thursday from DC. They refuled the unit at the old  
piggyback ramp before returning the train to the station for loading.

Ken Miller

On May 7, 2011, at 11:59 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> It takes a very long train to hang back that far. My guess is that  

> what you are seeing are trains that have made a temporary stop for  

> refueling engines. One of the designated refueling points is just  

> west of 10th Street (the overhead highway bridge across the yard  

> about half way between 5th Street and Shaffers Crossing, 24th  

> Street). This area is called "the ramp", or, old "piggy back ramp",  

> for the location of that facility many years ago.

>

> Crews are still changed at 24th Street.

>

> Jeff Sanders

>

> --- On Sat, 5/7/11, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

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> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> Subject: End of Trains

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> Date: Saturday, May 7, 2011, 8:23 AM

>

> I have noticed the past week or so seeing (on the Roanoke Rail Cam)  

> the end of west bound freights are parked in the cameras range. Is  

> that because the stopping point to re-crew has been moved farther to  

> the east or are the trains becoming longer ?

>

> Terry Marshall

> Hagerstown, MD

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