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A No.1
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HINMAN YARD

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Went by Hinman today. Saw a 6 axel unit, 8960 I beleive in the yard.

Also saw a lone auto rack car. What was an auto rack doing on the NS at Hinman?
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JUST AARON wrote:Also saw a lone auto rack car. What was an auto rack doing on the NS at Hinman?
Misrouted? Or is it going to the scrap yard?
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Hmmm....possibly a buffer car? Also coulda been sent there to join the rest of the storage cars in the new yard...intriguing. :?:
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Mis-route
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Buster Manning wrote:Mis-route
How could the yard crew in Jackson accidentally send an autorack to Battle Creek? Just following orders?
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When I worked on the railroad, several times a trainmaster said "get that stuff outta here ". "Where should we send it"? "Send it anywhere. Just get it outta here"! :lol:
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Had something like that happen to me last trip we had a hot shot intermodal train out of Windsor. I got on it at Elkhart and we had 3 covered hoppers that "just had to be picked up". Train masters sometimes just don't get it. and so now there are 3 cover hoppers siting in the Schiller Park Intermodal yard just cause. sounds exactly how your auto rack got to Hinman yard
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How does an auto rack end up in Hinman Yard? It's quite simple. It was a lone, misrouted car that needs to go back to Elkhart, wedged between a two groups of Battle Creek cars. Why switch it out yourself. Make one move instead of three and let someone else handle it.I work there, I know how my co-workers think. Hell, I know how I think, and that's what I would've done.
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