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8 Hours in the Tower

To give you an idea of the amount of traffic you can expect to see from a trackside room in the Holiday Inn, here's a transcript of 8 hours on the evening of Thursday, the 17. April 2002.

You don't have to stay put the whole time, either - Baltimore Street, the Amtrak depot, and a McDonalds are within easy walking distance.

16:00 Q375 westbound, receives helper @ Franklin St.
16:30 eastbound coal drag off Mountain Sub, engines #522/517
17:00 yard crew pulls Q317 west to Amtrak Station, waits for road crew
17:30 Q217 heads west without helpers, CW44AC + SD40-2, auto racks
18:00 Q358 comes east with CW44AC + GP38-2, block of auto racks, covered hoppers, mixed
18:45 Q416 eastbound
18:50 Q136 approaches Franklin Street, engines #7912/7570, trailers, containers
19:00 Q317 pictures @ Baltimore Street; Q317 leaves westbound engines AC44CW #43, HLCX, GP38-2, GE-AC
19:10 Q353 pulls out of yard up to Amtrak Station
19:15 Q136 departs Mexico eastbound
19:25 Q375 gets orders to hold east of Hyndman due to brush fire started by MoW gang east of Falls Cut Tunnel; released after a short while
19:36 Q353 leaves westbound with 2x GP38-2, FURX #3049 (SD40-2), GP40-2
19:45 Q416 westbound with engines #8036 (SD40-2), #8774 (SD60I) at Amtrak Station

20:20 Amtrak #P029 at station, leaves 20:30, 2x Genesis
20:40 B249 (helper) returns, reports clear Mt. Savage Jct.
21:25 Q216 arrives eastbound, engines #8551 (SD50), FURX #3004 (SD40-2), autoracks
21:35 Q359 finished rollby inspection by carmen
21:40 Q346 leaves eastbound
22:00 G326 engines #8887/8196 (SD40-2) arrives eastbound (first heard at 09:00 in Connellsville)
22:10 Q359 asks CM dispatcher for a helper or more power on head end, only has 2x SD40-2; will get helper @ Hyndman
22:15 Q359 leaves westbound
22:30 B??? returning helper
22:45 Q640 leaves westbound, engines #7733/7356 (C40-9W), gets helper @ Franklin Street
23:50 E819 receives rollby, pulls up to Baltimore Street, engines #521/539
00:00 E819 leaves westbound for Mountain Sub, PEPX/HLMX hoppers

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