In late morning, local freight train WMA-41 arrives in West Valley. This train
left Cumberland, MD and has switched the town of East Valley prior to arriving here.
The locomotive (here a class L1s 2-8-2) is preparing to uncouple and leave the
WMA-41 consist on the passing siding.
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After uncoupling, the locomotive pulls loaded milk tank cars from the outbound milk track.
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It backs down the main with the loaded cars until clear of the runaround switch.
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It then enters the runaround track...
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... and pushes the empty milk tank cars off the runaround track and into the outbound milk track.
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The empty milk tanks get uncoupled...
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... and the locomotive backs into the runaround track to spot the
loaded milk tank cars there.
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After backing out of the runaround track, the locomotive moves up the main...
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... and backs onto its freight train so switching can continue. The freight switching
of the industry and team tracks is not shown here.
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After all switching in West Valley is complete, train WMA-41 has received
clearance to proceed to Annville up the secondary mainline.
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Here is the status of West Valley later in the day and after WMA-41 has departed.
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