Paul M. (right) and Bob J. (white shirt) are crewing the Mill Bend Turn (MBT). This is one of the trickier
assignments on the railroad. Mill Bend doesn't have as many car spots as Redland and there is a dedicated
run around track off the siding but there's not much clearance on the east of of the run around, trailing
and facing point spurs all over the place, and a steady parade of traffinc coming through for which they
need to keep the mainline clear. Luckily there's only one industry, the bulk oil, off the mainline. That's
the Polar Bear (reefer express) in town. RXE is ironically the hottest train on the railroad (the hottest
train is ice reefers?)
and the Superintendent of Nearly
Everything is wondering why it appears to be stopped in Mill Bend when it should have received open
track across the entire railroad? Oops...
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