Mound City Local
CN L506 switches Consolidated Grain & Barge in Mound City, Illinois with SD40-2W 5244 on point. L506 is a daily local out of the Illinois Central yard at Cairo handling switching duties at Cairo, Mounds, and Mound City. This day, their work was light, spotting about 20 loaded coke hoppers, pulling 8 empties, and dragging 3 motors (CN 8888, CN 3086, and IC 1034, which brought an empty grain train from Decatur for ADM at Mound City the night before) from the Mound City siding to the main at Mounds. After doing all this within 20 minutes, they were ready to shove back to Cairo Yard.
Mound City Local
CN L506 switches Consolidated Grain & Barge in Mound City, Illinois with SD40-2W 5244 on point. L506 is a daily local out of the Illinois Central yard at Cairo handling switching duties at Cairo, Mounds, and Mound City. This day, their work was light, spotting about 20 loaded coke hoppers, pulling 8 empties, and dragging 3 motors (CN 8888, CN 3086, and IC 1034, which brought an empty grain train from Decatur for ADM at Mound City the night before) from the Mound City siding to the main at Mounds. After doing all this within 20 minutes, they were ready to shove back to Cairo Yard.