Coal Trains at Crawford, NE & CWR Car Question

torino72

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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) Yes I do believe they do run DPUs north into Crawford. Knowing BNSF, at least in my area on the Marshall Sub, we do see coal trains loaded and empty, with DPUs going both ways. Usually 2 in the front and 2 on the rear.

2) I never have personally been in the area, but I'm sure they keep some DPUs on and take some off while they go back to the mines.

3) I have looked closely at Google maps and I have found no such facility you're talking about, if you could give the latitude an longitude coordinates, that would be appreciated.
The line that follows Mill Rd is ex DM&E, now CP Rail.
 
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?

Search for CWR on the DLS. You should find quite a collection by btvfd. He also has some other MoW cars listed under "MW".

Might look like this;



Shown with alien3's excellent MOW track layer and davesnow's yard monsters.
 
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I have btvfd's cars. That is what reminded me of this earlier post from s-driver. These earlier cars were more detailed and included rails that bent as they rounded curves. Too bad this all became "vapor-ware" I guess. By the way, I have a cloned set of the btvfd cars that have the rail supports minus the rails (empty CWR cars).
 
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