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Hi Nora, Looked at your pix. The top structure is either for loading the hoppers in the foreground, or for engine servicing. Because it appears to be a conveyor structure which feeds funnels in the supports, I am guessing this is used for filling hoppers. Otherwise, I would say it is for sander refills on locomotives, except that the sand must be kept dry and would be fed through pipes rather than conveyors. You can see the vacuum tubes running off of the funnels, which is kind of confusing, but I would imagine that this is a transload facility which feeds pellet material not succeptable to moisture. The CSX MOW equipment appears to be either a tamper or a track spiker. Because I can't see any spike feeding apparatus, I am guessing this is a tamper. The fingers on the front lower into the ballast and compress it to support the ties. The last picture is a series of locos awaiting servicing. What happens is regional RRs and shortlines contract rehabilitation work on second-hand units purchased from Class 1 RRs. The locos are shipped to a large engine maintenance area on a Class 1 (like CSX) where they are rebuilt and then delivered to the smaller RRs which don't have heavy equipment facilities. They are also repainted, although some shortlines choose to do their own external bodywork. These contracts keep steady work for the loco shops, instead of having to furlough employees depending upon seasonal fluctuations in workload.
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