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[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

(aboard MARC train P881 yesterday evening, heading off the terminal lead onto the CSX Metropolitan Subdivision and stopped for a red signal at QN Tower)

Conductor to passengers:  "We're going to have to hold here for one of those hot Wal-Mart trains.  The dispatcher says he's sorry." 

Comments

[gracegiver]

lol .. what, pray tell, is a hot Wal-Mart train?

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

I was wondering that myself.  it turned out to be Q130, an intermodal freight train headed to Portsmouth VA by way of Rocky Mount (actually Weldon) NC.  the lading was assorted containers, most of them in APL (http://www.apl.com)'s dark blue.