How a 50‑Foot Hopper Appeared on a Dead Line at 2:14 AM
How a 50‑Foot Hopper Appeared on a Dead Line at 2:14 AM
A fifty-foot covered hopper car, bearing faded yellow reporting marks for Spur‑Iron Regional Railroad, sat on Track Seven at Calloway Junction at 2:14 AM on September 9, 2013 - a line that had carried no revenue freight since 2003 and dead-ended three hundred yards north at a collapsed trestle. How could a tens-of-thousands-of-pounds railcar leave a forty-foot clean wheel path and press against a padlocked switch hasp without anyone seeing, hearing, or opening the lock?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Frank Draper’s…
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