SP 266 ALMOST leading in Clinton, IA 072608
3,616 views · Published 26 July 2008 · 0:56 · Indexed 8 November 2026
Channel: cnw8577 · 2008 · Autos & Vehicles
So I missed the first part of the story on this. I got a trace saying that SP 266 arrived here 15 minutes beforehand. I scrambled down to the yard office and found it as a rear-facing DPU on a westbound bucket train(head end of the train was sitting at either Central Steel or Camanche, i'm not sure which). Soon after I heard some scanner chatter about the westbound at KMX(Camanche) needing a head-end EOT and something about the crew heading back to the DPU. Sure enough, a crew van showed up and they cut the SP unit off and ran it a few hundred feet up the track to the yard switch and they parked her in the timefreight yard. I honestly have no idea why any of this happened, but I'm not going to object as this is the closest i've ever come to seeing an SP unit lead.
