Petersburg VA 01.07.12: Hamburgers And Hot Dogs, Part 2

With the northbound Palmetto out of the way, F778 emerged from behind the trees in the distance, having exchanged its load of steel products for empty bulkhead flats from the Hamburger Track. We got a good dose of normally aspirated EMD sound from GP38-2 2636 as the train pulled forward to 'go over to Hot Dog'. Too good in fact - it seemed SD40-2 8376 was taking a break. No matter, as the empty cars would be easily handled by the 2636. 30 minutes later, the pair reappeared with a longer string of empties in tow and reversed one more time to cross back into the yard and close out my first day of railfanning in 2012.

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[iusetano]

The GP38 sounds like the locomotives I used to operate. They were non turbo charged also. Excellent video Dave. Do you know why they call it the Hot Dog track?

[FastFlyingVirginian]

@iusetano I believe it's because one (or both) of the spurs serve a plant that does work for Boar's Head. I'm not sure if they have the brand up in Canada, but they are a deli meat and cheese company.

[floodedcar123]

What in the world are they doing?

[FastFlyingVirginian]

@floodedcar123 Picking up empties from industries that sit on two spurs that break off on that side of the main. In Part 1, they were preparing to deliver a load of steel on the distant (Hot Dog) spur.

[trainkid16]

@NS9710 Makes sense. It's just odd down here, as Southern signals still occupy the majority of the NS Greenville District!

[floodedcar123]

Seems like a lot of work for one train.

[iusetano]

@FastFlyingVirginian Make total sense to me. Thanks Dave. No, we don't have that brand up this way.

[NS9710]

@trainkid16 Around here it's a Restricting #2 track southbound, nothing odd about that here.

[trainkid16]

Check out that Diverging Restricting Lunar aspect! That's cool, and I highly doubt that I'll ever see that around here.