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I work at a location just to the NorthWest of the Rouge plant. Along the back of my parking lot, a track runs that at the north end, is a wye to the former Conrail (now NS?) main between Detroit & Chicago, along which the Pontiac/Det/Chi Amtrak runs through Dearborn. At the other end, the track crosses the Ford freeway and enters the Rouge property at the Western most (?) corner of the facility. Several times a day, a single ConRail engine (don't know the type) drags a string of about 30-40 covered 3 bays into the plant, and then sometime later, drags what appears to be the same string out. The engine is always on the point, so he's run around the string. These cars are not for general traffic, quite weathered, rusty & gray colored, and former road affiliation has been painted over. Their information is variable, ??-?X, so they are private and dedicated to this local service. There is no real indication on them as to what might be in them, and they appear in the same condition coming and going...that is, there is no apparent extra stuff like white dust or dark dust on them. There seem to be several of these trains each day. Does anyone have an idea what their purpose is, what they carry and their non-Ford destination? Rich
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