The Run for the Roses was yesterday 5/5/07 ("Street Sense" won if you are curious) and NS' OCS train used to schmooze VIPs (shippers presumably) begins the trek back to home base at Altoona led by executive F units. NS train 955 heads east on the Louisville district trundling down the Waddy siding having passed a waiting westbound rack/stack train. As the Louisville district is run under Track Warrant Control, passing sidings use spring switches to exit which I guess is why two permissive signal aspects are displayed reflecting speed through the switch (?): clear aspect at normal speed on the main on the left and limited clear to exit the siding at limited speed until train is clear of the interlocking

Photographed by John Barlow, May 6, 2007.
Added to the photo archive by John Barlow, April 18, 2021.
Railroad: Norfolk Southern.

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