“Homeward Bound” CSX’s “Letterkenny Local” (Hagerstown-Culbertson turn), is headed home after interchanging with the Pennsylvania & Southern Railway at the Cumberland Valley Business Park/Letterkenny Army Depot. Here the local is westbound at 19:08, passing Wenger Feeds’ Shippensburg Mill on NS’s Lurgan District at HW 43.3.
To reach the CVBP/LAD, the former B708 (symbolled KH00 while on NS) uses Norfolk Southern trackage between CP-TOWN (HW 73.7) in Hagerstown and CP-SHIP (HW 40.1) in Shippensburg. After a 2 mile shove on NS’s Lurgan Running Track, an additional 6 mile shove is made between LURGAN (BAV 32.2) and CULBERTSON (BAV 26.2) on former Western Maryland Railway trackage.
A shoving platform, CSXT 900077, which is a former N&W Class C-31 caboose (NW 518500), is used to protect the extensive reverse move. See Photo ID 800644.
