| The empty pulpwood cars are located on the former Cragford House Track which has been reconfigured. Formerly, the track ran parallel to the main and siding before being curved away to enable pulpwood car loading. Normally, procedure was for the Lineville Switcher to arrive from the north (around the curve in the distance), open the woodyard switch and remove the loads, set the loads over to the main, ease backwards with the empties behind the power, cut off from the empties and roll the locomotive to a coupling with the loads, and let gravity take the empties into the clear (roll by switch) into the woodyard. Facing point switches were handled with ease and speed back in the day. When gravity failed, sticks of pulpwood would be used to move the cars into the clear in a "poling" type move that could be very dangerous if the wood wasn't sturdy enough to withstand the pressure. |