I ended up running it much like Marcus and Jeff did during my last op session. I too ended up with quite a load of hoppers in the loading tracks. There was easily over 50 cars there at one time.
I was surprised how many moves it took just to switch out the 40' box cars at the bagged sand loading tracks. With such a long lead, you end up moving cuts of cars back and forth to get your empties spotted and switch out the cars you need to take.
Weighing went well. I had two cars that were rejected that need repair at the RIP track in Ottawa Yard. Out of all the other cars, I only had two over tonnage. It was right at the end too. I thought I was going to make it without having any over. I know Marcus would have been upset after they got nailed with over tonnage cars. :-)
The toughest part was trying to get on the north side of the all cars when wrapping up the switching. There is not one long run around track. You have to do it in sections and shove all your cars down toward LOF to make it work. You really have to think out all your moves on this job.
I returned to the yard with only 19 cars. Marcus and Jeff had 34 returning the other day!
I was telling my wife how challenging the local was to run. She then asked me, "Would you change anything now that you have run it?" A big smile stretched across my face as I replied nope! It's absolutely perfect the way it is. I couldn't be happier with the way the sand operations turned out.
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