Q249-25 has just arrived at Jessup Yard, just behind the distant bridge, and is ready to push back into the yard (. In an unusual combination move, the train brings mixed freight out of Baltimore to Jessup, only some 20 miles away, drops every single car there, and then takes a full train of empty autoracks west from the unloading facility there. One some days the initial block of cars may number only two or three, yet they will be pulled by the power needed for the subsequent full length autorack train. On this day the train of 7 cars would be pulled by two venerable engines, this C40-8 and a trailing SD40-2.
