A Day on the ROCK: Part I

Due to the many changes to the layout, I decided to run a solo op session to experience all the jobs the crews perform during the op session.  While performing the solo op session, I decided to document the experience in full.

To begin the session, you can see how I'm utilizing the West Davenport yard more clearing out the tracks in East Davenport for car classification.

 

#110 Illinois Shorts departs Burr Oak Yard in Chicago with three GP7s.  

 

 

A view from downtown Blue Island of the passing Southern pulpwood car bound for Midwest Paper Stock Co in Joliet on #110 Illinois Shorts

 

#110 passing through Blue Island, Illinois

 

#110 Illinois Shorts arrives in Joliet, Illinois

 

#110 Illinois Shorts power cuts from the train to make the run around move.

 

#110's Power heading back east on the siding.

 

#110 Illinois Shorts pulling the previous days #113 Joliet to Bureau Turn cars from the storage track.

 

#110 has completed its set off and now heading back to Chicago's Burr Oak Yard with today's pickup.

 

#110 enters Burr Oak Yard in South Chicago completing the run.

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#113 Joliet to Bureau Turn crosses the mainline at JD Tower backing onto the storage track to pickup today's train.

 

 

#113 pulls its train from the storage track.

 

#113 backs into the industrial park in Joliet, IL

 

#113 is close to spotting the Southern Pulpwood car at the paper mill.

 

#113 spots two cars of chlorine at the paper mill.

 

#113s power runs around its train on the main.

 

#113 backs into the American Can Co. to pickup a Rock Island box car.

 

 #113 pulls the Rock Island Box out of the American Can spur

 

 

"Half a car 113....that'll do"

 

#113 spotting two box cars at the American Can Co.

 

 

 

#113's caboose by the station in Joliet, IL