Three_Step_Culpep
Colonial Materials
This is one of my favorite local moves to shoot here in Charlotte. Sometimes the day shift switcher out of Pinoca Yard will make set-outs and deliveries to the Colonial Materials warehouse on the West Industrial Lead. If they’re running light, you can get a pretty neat view of the locomotive shoving almost all the way (and occasionally ALL the way) into the building. The run to Colonial Materials is an easy one to catch since the crew is required to call up the dispatcher for a signal out of Pinoca Yard to occupy the mainline before shoving onto the West Lead. Here’s a rare appearance of CSX 2807 (ex-Conrail 8266) with its high-clearance plow making a pickup at Colonial. Units with these plows rarely stray away from trackage in the northeast where electric third rails are a clearance concern, but this one found its way down south for some reason. Even rarer was the significant (for Charlotte) amount of snowfall on the ground! Charlotte, NC, 1/17/2022.
Colonial Materials
This is one of my favorite local moves to shoot here in Charlotte. Sometimes the day shift switcher out of Pinoca Yard will make set-outs and deliveries to the Colonial Materials warehouse on the West Industrial Lead. If they’re running light, you can get a pretty neat view of the locomotive shoving almost all the way (and occasionally ALL the way) into the building. The run to Colonial Materials is an easy one to catch since the crew is required to call up the dispatcher for a signal out of Pinoca Yard to occupy the mainline before shoving onto the West Lead. Here’s a rare appearance of CSX 2807 (ex-Conrail 8266) with its high-clearance plow making a pickup at Colonial. Units with these plows rarely stray away from trackage in the northeast where electric third rails are a clearance concern, but this one found its way down south for some reason. Even rarer was the significant (for Charlotte) amount of snowfall on the ground! Charlotte, NC, 1/17/2022.