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Bill, you asked over on TO about trains following each other up Sand Patch. I can tell you that on my last 2 visits to the Cumberland area, CSX has dispatched a fleet of westbounds in late-morning, seems to coincide with the Amtrak PO30 eastbound through Cumberland.

Last October, I was up on Sand Patch at Foley,PA., and 4 trains came upgrade in about 1 hour.
The first one  was the only train with a helper, even so the empty autorack and empty coal trains following kept catching restricting signals from the crawling mixed freight.

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good to  know there are some good sites in Connelsville.   I have been there a few times and have never gotten nice pictures like that.

also, the last 3 times at Sand Patch, I have been skunked.    I think once we got 1 train in 2-3 hours.    On the other two visits we got nothing.    It seems like CSX shuts down in the afternoon and then starts up again at about 6 pm.    We were in Rockland (I think that is the name) in the evening and caught about 4 trains in a little over an hour.

 

 

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