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HINMAN YARD
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 7:56 pm
by A No.1
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?
Re: HINMAN YARD
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 8:03 pm
by AARR
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?
Re: HINMAN YARD
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 11:53 pm
by Avnx
Hmmm....possibly a buffer car? Also coulda been sent there to join the rest of the storage cars in the new yard...intriguing.
Re: HINMAN YARD
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:57 am
by Buster Manning
Mis-route
Re: HINMAN YARD
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:11 am
by Ben Higdon
Buster Manning wrote:Mis-route
How could the yard crew in Jackson accidentally send an autorack to Battle Creek? Just following orders?
Re: HINMAN YARD
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:06 pm
by hoborich
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"!
Re: HINMAN YARD
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:59 pm
by canpac08
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
Re: HINMAN YARD
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:05 am
by PriorrightsConrail
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.