Bob,
During the time I was,"on property" work at Milledgeville was down at the west end of the pass at the fertilizer plant. That's a story in itself but will save it for a future post. I did see stock spotted and being unloaded twice at Milledgeville during those years. One time the stock was spotted by the train ahead of us. He had no problem that I heard About on the radio.
Even earlier the work in town would have been at the stock yards and elevator. Not more than a couple cars at a time so even with three or four units turning on the tail track wouldn't be all that tight. I've not seen an early station track diagram for Milledgeville but I do recall looking at the lay of the land and suspecting the tail track continued farther east and tied back into the main back in the day. Before the highway underpass shortened it.
Leo The reason I'm asking is because of the track layout at Milledgeville. The run-around came off the west end of the passing track and ended in a stubbed tail track on the east end. If I've measured correctly off the station map, the tail is only 800 feet. There are several photos by Marty Bernard on the RR photo archives site that show PU (according to him) with a mimum of two units--an F unit and a GP30--to a several unit power assemblage. I'm curious how switching was done with three-units on that short tail track. Leo, did you work Milledgeville?
Bob Herrick
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