I have some questions for anyone familiar with coal train operations in the Crawford, NE area.
1. Do north bound empty coal trains coming over Crawford Hill and into Crawford usually have pushers?
2. If 2 is "yes", are the pushers typically dropped off at Crawford?
3. Per Google Earh, about one half mile north of Mill Rd in Crawford there is some sort of "facility". I cannot tell whether these are detectors or a refueling point, or possibly both. Anyone know?
4. Regarding #3, is this where pushers are added to south bound loaded coal trains or dropped off of the north bound empty coal trains? It appears that many/most loaded coal trains stop at Crawford to have pushers added before tackling Crawford Hill. I'm assuming there are are at least some pusher sets at Crawford and they have to be refueled somewhere.
5. One final generic question pertaining to continuous welded rail cars. This link ( http://trainzforums.com/index.php?topic=1541.msg36989#msg36989 ) pertains to CWR cars built by S-driver circa May 2009 - Aug 2010. He had an excellent set of SP CWR cars with rail that bent around curves almost ready for release when he suddenly disappeared from Trainz (Train Discussion Forum Powered by Jointed Rail Productions) in Aug 2010. Anyone know what happened to him or anything about these cars?
1. Do north bound empty coal trains coming over Crawford Hill and into Crawford usually have pushers?
2. If 2 is "yes", are the pushers typically dropped off at Crawford?
3. Per Google Earh, about one half mile north of Mill Rd in Crawford there is some sort of "facility". I cannot tell whether these are detectors or a refueling point, or possibly both. Anyone know?
4. Regarding #3, is this where pushers are added to south bound loaded coal trains or dropped off of the north bound empty coal trains? It appears that many/most loaded coal trains stop at Crawford to have pushers added before tackling Crawford Hill. I'm assuming there are are at least some pusher sets at Crawford and they have to be refueled somewhere.
5. One final generic question pertaining to continuous welded rail cars. This link ( http://trainzforums.com/index.php?topic=1541.msg36989#msg36989 ) pertains to CWR cars built by S-driver circa May 2009 - Aug 2010. He had an excellent set of SP CWR cars with rail that bent around curves almost ready for release when he suddenly disappeared from Trainz (Train Discussion Forum Powered by Jointed Rail Productions) in Aug 2010. Anyone know what happened to him or anything about these cars?