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Lived in Oberlin, Kansas most of the 1980s. The BN used to use an SD9 to bring in empty covered hoppers and spot them at the grain elevators. Then it would take a ride on the little turntable, powered from the diesel's MR connection, head back to Mc Cook, NE with the loaded covered hoppers that were ready to go. Near the end of the decade the power tended to be two GP-40s or GP-38s lashed up back to back, thus eliminating the need to use the turntable.<br><br>There also is (or was, haven't been there in several years) a turntable in Bridgeport, NE. The BN had sold it to a local business who charged the railroad everytime they turned a locomotive for the railroad. Haven't been to Bridgeport for nearly 15 years so I don't know if it's still there or not.<br>
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