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hey all, Had my first trip yesterday. I got called for V500, which is a coal train that services a massive coal fired power plant in Cayuga, IN. The caller asked me if I had been there before and I said no, so luckily I was able to get a pilot conductor. We pulled the empties out of Cayuga and went down the CSX main to Hillsdale where we got on the Decatur Sudvision. There we have to get DTC blocks, something I hadn't had to do before. When we approached the old Conrail line by Ridge Farm, IL I had to call the Indianapolis dispather and get a Form D. Then we went through the interlocking, i got off at a switch lined it for straight, let the train pull through, lined the switch back to back the train up down the wye. Then we went north to Black Beauty Mine in Vermillion Grove, there we pulled the train in and circled around until all the switches were lined so that the train could be loaded. We taxied back up to Danville and had a 5 1/2 hour day. It was a very easy first trip for me and I got to learn a bunch of new and important things, like DTC blocks and Form D's, which some of you CSX guys out East probably use a lot more than I do. Mudchicken, are you surveying out there by Cayuga and Watseka?? I will probably get called today, since I've already been bumped off my off day! Most likely I'll be heading north to Chicago, but with vacations I may also get to go south to Evansville. I do remember reading a dispatcher bulletin about contractors working near some tracks, I don't know if that was you or not, but is was further south of Cayuga. I have heard of that shortline, is it the V V R ? I think they are buying the Old Conrail line all the way to Hillery Yard in Danville, so then they will service Teepak, Central States. I'm not sure if they will buy the Westville main as well that goes south and services CCL, Royster Clark, and something else. Anyways, I'll keep an eye out for a surveying crew, I'll be wearing a Clemson hat with blue bib overalls, and If I'm out on the ground I'll have my yellow training vest on. [C):-)]
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