The Weathering Depot

It’s early morning in the community of Addyston Ohio. The smell of pancakes, bacon and eggs from the local diner mixes with the smell from Monsanto Chemical fills the air.

It’s not much after dawn when we get to work on the Penn Central. With the thermoses of coffee in hand, Fred, myself, and Jimmy head out of our small yard office and fire up 8806:

Today we’re starting by pulling two loaded scrap gons out of Sullivan scrap:

Next, we pull in the clear as the local’s engine out of Riverside yard shoves an empty PRR gon into Sullivan, then couples up to the two loaded gons:

Next, our crew spots a loaded tank car for Monsanto plus a tank car of fuel oil for McGraw fuel and oil:

With this work done we park old 8806 and await several other industries to release their cars. Stay tuned….