Friday, November 17, 2017

Switching Aeropres Gases, now and then!

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Back on November 17, 1985 I was fortunate enough to catch CR's WJAL switching tank cars at Aeropres in Hillsborough (NJ). Motive power that day was CR 8220 (GP 38-2) and off in the background can be seen a caboose. Fast forward thirty-two years later as NS's H76 is once again switching tank cars at the Aeropres facility on Wednesday. NS 3489 (SD40-2; ex-BN 8129, BNSF 8129 & FURX 8129) is in control at this time with an unidentified second diesel waiting in the back on NS's LEHL. I thought it was rather ironic that this train and the one I photographed thirty-two years earlier would have a caboose in its consist. As to why BDRV's 596 remote control caboose was on the H76 I do not know what the reason for its move was. Still faintly visible beneath the "R" on BDRV 596 is the Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway logo.