Tracking West
Three Way Meet
Union Pacific's Valley Subdivision is not exactly known for being busy. However, sometimes traffic backs up and things work out perfectly, and on this day it did. Two Canada bound empty grain trains departed Roseville, at the same time the ZBRLC was coming south. Due to the grain trains following just a couple miles behind each other, the dispatcher decided that holding the Z train in the siding at Ostrom was the best idea, and both grains stayed on the mainline. Almost immediately after the second grain cleared the south control point, the Z train would be back on the move to Roseville.
Three Way Meet
Union Pacific's Valley Subdivision is not exactly known for being busy. However, sometimes traffic backs up and things work out perfectly, and on this day it did. Two Canada bound empty grain trains departed Roseville, at the same time the ZBRLC was coming south. Due to the grain trains following just a couple miles behind each other, the dispatcher decided that holding the Z train in the siding at Ostrom was the best idea, and both grains stayed on the mainline. Almost immediately after the second grain cleared the south control point, the Z train would be back on the move to Roseville.