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Gabe, <br /> <br /> I really don't think many trains are run on the Decatur Sub (east to west track) and the Danville Secondary (north to south), which is further west and meet at the Diamond at Chrisman, IL. I think there are a few grain trains that run out of Decatur and one regular freight that runs from Terre Haute to Decatur, but that's about it. Now, on the CE&D there are many trains of course running both ways. V500 is the coal drag that runs fairly regularly. It is usually called in the early afternoon and departs out of the Cinergy coal plant at Cayuga and heads south to Hillsdale on the CE&D, where it then runs west on the Decatur Sub to Chrisman. At Chrisman we pull through the interlocking and pull the train past the wye and then back it south towards Paris, IL on the Danville Secondary. The SB dispatcher in Jacksonville controls the Decatur Sub via DTC blocks. And the Indianapolis IB dispatcher controlls the Danville Secondary via FORM D's, which have just been recently replaced by the system wide EC-1 form. After we pull southward through the wye we then head north about 10 miles to Vermillion Grove where the Black Beauty coal mine is. The mainline ends there, but continues again in Westville where one of our CSX yard jobs services some industries there. The section of track that the yard job operates on is considered an industrial lead now. <br /> Right now the V500 has 76 coal hoppers on it, but the mine only loads about 50 cars as the coal mined in this area is "younger" and burns quite dirty. Currently the Cinergy plant in Cauyga is builing some new srubbers to combat this problem and then the V500 will probably be fully loaded and run daily. That would be more prized than working one of the locals if V500 became regular; right now the job is called off the extraboard.
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